SEO Strategist (Remote, Chicago)
Blacksmith Agency Marketing Full time Remote (Canada, South Africa or USA) Search only. Paid media is a separate seat with its own strategist, so you are never split across both. About The Role Blacksmith Agency is an AI-first digital agency. As SEO Strategist you own search for a book of B2B and growing-brand clients: the technical roadmap, the content priorities and the ranking story when the client asks what moved. You are the strategic voice at the table, and you make the calls. What You Will Own Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, schema and site architecture. Keyword strategy, on-page optimization and content priorities, with writers and AI producing the drafts. 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. What You Bring 3+ years hands-on in SEO: you have run the audits and made the fixes yourself. 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. How To Apply Apply in two minutes at the link. Your application is reviewed once you finish a short 6 minute Predictive Index assessment, so use the same email throughout.