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About the role

  • SEO Strategist owning organic search strategy and hands-on execution for Blacksmith Agency’s multifamily, B2B, and technical clients. Leading audits, roadmaps, reporting, and SEO delivery teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead organic search strategy for all SEO clients across multiple industries
  • Join sales calls with AEs to validate scope, pitch technical recommendations and help close deals
  • Build 90 day, 6 month and annual growth roadmaps covering technical SEO, on-page SEO, content and link acquisition
  • Translate complex SEO recommendations into clear explanations for executives
  • Conduct technical SEO audits, competitive gap analyses and keyword opportunity mapping
  • Use Screaming Frog, Ahrefs and SEMrush for technical audits and summarize prioritized action steps
  • Implement on-page SEO updates directly in CMS platforms, primarily WordPress
  • Create SEO briefs and content outlines, then review drafts before publishing
  • Manage and improve local SEO for clients with physical locations
  • Research backlink opportunities and support execution where relevant
  • Own client performance across technical SEO, on-page, content and authority building
  • Track rankings, crawl health, Core Web Vitals and conversions through Ahrefs, GA4 and Search Console
  • Adjust client strategy in response to Google algorithm updates
  • Provide weekly direction and QA for SEO specialists, content writers and link-building resources
  • Coordinate priorities with the Marketing PM
  • Generate monthly and quarterly reports highlighting wins, drops and next steps
  • Present performance summaries and strategy directly to clients
  • Oversee reporting accuracy and insights delivered by PMs or specialists

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on SEO experience, ideally in an agency setting with multiple active clients
  • Proven track record of delivering measurable organic growth, with examples supported by first-party data (traffic, leads, rankings)
  • Strong working knowledge of GA4, Google Search Console, Ahrefs or SEMrush
  • Direct experience implementing metadata, schema, redirects and internal linking across a variety of industry websites
  • Confident conducting keyword research and mapping SEO strategy to business goals
  • Ability to create and articulate strategic recommendations to clients and AEs
  • Demonstrated ability to oversee execution teams (specialists, writers, link builders) and manage deliverable quality
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to diagnose ranking or traffic issues quickly
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a remote team environment
  • Experience managing international SEO or multi-language sites
  • Understanding of conversion rate optimization (CRO) best practices
  • Experience joining sales calls and influencing close rates
  • Familiarity with multifamily, real estate or high-intent lead generation
  • Comfortable collaborating with developers to resolve indexing issues, implement redirects or improve page speed
  • Experience with project management tools such as Jira, ClickUp or Asana

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

WordPress

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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