Strategic SEO Account Lead - Remote, AI-First Agency

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Bloemfontein; Remote; ZAR 1,486,000 - 2,147,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO Account Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, set content priorities, and articulate the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You act as the strategic voice at the table, making calls on technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content priorities, coordinating with writers and AI to deliver measurable results on client roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in SEO with audits and fixes.
• Fluency with Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog and Ahrefs or Semrush.
• Agency experience across several clients at once.
• Clear spoken English with US clients on live calls.

Responsibilities

• Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture.
• Keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities with writers and AI.
• Getting clients found in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, alongside classic organic results.
• Links, local search and multi-location SEO where the client needs it.
• Reporting in GA4 and Search Console, and the quarterly roadmap for each client.

Skills

SEO audits

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Agency experience

English on calls

Tools

GA4

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

Blacksmith Agency LLC is an AI-first digital agency seeking an SEO Account Strategist to own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients. You will shape the technical roadmap, set content priorities, and articulate the ranking story when clients ask what moved.

You act as the strategic voice at the table, making calls on technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content priorities, coordinating with writers and AI to deliver measurable results on client roadmaps.