SEO Strategist · Blacksmith

The role

One seat. Search, end to end.

You own search for your clients: technical health, content strategy and rankings. The roadmap, the priorities, and the narrative on the call. You are the strategic voice at the table, not behind it. You are not responsible for paid media.

You own

Client strategy

The recommendation, the roadmap, the narrative on the call. You are the strategic voice at the table, not behind it.

You own

Your channel's decisions

The calls in search: technical priorities, content strategy, internal linking, what to fix first and what to ignore. Execution skews to judgment and data, not manual ops. AI handles the grunt work.

You own

Account growth

Retention, upsell, the long-term relationship. You build accounts that compound over years, not quarters.

The line

One discipline, owned properly. The other one is a different person's job, and that is the point.

What you own

Search

Technical, content and rankings for your accounts. The strategy, the sequencing, the roadmap and the client conversation that goes with them.

What you don't

Paid media

Google, Meta and LinkedIn spend is a separate seat with a separate strategist. You are never split across both.

Blacksmith is a fully remote digital agency running paid media and SEO for B2B and growing mid-market brands. This seat owns search strategy and direction. Specialists and AI handle execution. Prove results and grow into senior strategist or pod lead.

Why this seat

Built for strategists who want to make calls.

Most agency strategist roles are stuck on the wrong end of the work. This one is built for people who want to make decisions, not just send decks. Real ownership, real tools, real growth.

01

AI-first stack

Every team member has access to the best AI tools available. We use them to take grunt work off your plate so you spend time on real decisions, not manual reports.

02

Strategic ownership

You own the strategy and the client relationship. No layers above you running interference. Direct line to the founder.

03

Real growth

Small team, growing fast. AS is a seat that earns upward mobility quickly. Into senior strategist, pod lead, or related expansion.

04

Right client mix

B2B and growing brands across mid-market. Real budgets, real strategic problems, fewer ad-hoc fire drills than agencies that chase any deal.

The ramp

What good looks like, month by month.

You get a real onboarding and a clear picture of ownership over time. Here is the path most strategists follow.

Month 1

1

onboarding: tools, clients, playbook

Month 2+

3

primary on 2-3 client accounts

Month 6+

6

full pod ownership and discretion

The team

Meet some of the Blacksmith team.

Real people, fully remote. As SEO Strategist you'd partner with the paid, SEO and account teams to own client direction.

Rodriquez Pietersen

Account Director

Twenty years leading client and growth teams, now building out the strategy pod.

Damian Lupton-Smith

Paid Media Strategist

“We're born to be here and to succeed. Let's go, team.”

Kescha Abnett

SEO Strategist

“Thank you for the support, team. I appreciate you all more than you know.”

Our team is growing this year across strategy, sales and operations. SEO Strategist is a new seat. You'd join early and shape how this role works at Blacksmith.

I have witnessed the strength of character, the hunger and the relentless persistence in this team. Everyone is unique, but what makes this special is how we come together as one. I am genuinely grateful for each person here and proud of what we are building.

Rodriquez Pietersen, Account Director

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+ Own client strategy and direction for your channel, paid or SEO
+ AI-first agency with the best tools available
+ Fully remote, growing team, upward mobility
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