Senior SEO and GEO Specialist
Remote Recruitment
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Remote Recruitment is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Remote Recruitment is hiring a Senior SEO and GEO Specialist for a UK-based employer, fully remote from South Africa.
Remote Recruitment is hiring a Senior SEO and GEO Specialist for our UK-based client, an established digital marketing agency that forms part of a wider group of specialist businesses. This is a fully remote, full-time position for a South Africa based professional working UK business hours.
This is a senior seat for someone who came up through SEO and paid search and is now working at the front edge of AI search: AEO, answer engine optimisation, and GEO, generative engine optimisation. You will shape how the agency's clients appear not only in Google rankings but in ChatGPT answers, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and other AI-driven results. The role replaces a part-time freelancer, so you will take a function that is currently thinly covered and make it properly your own.
SEO
Own SEO strategy and delivery across a portfolio of agency client accounts.
Technical SEO: audits, crawlability and indexation, site architecture, Core Web Vitals, redirects, schema and structured data.
On-page and content: keyword and intent research, topical authority planning, metadata and internal linking at scale.
Off-page: authority building, digital PR and outreach.
Report to clients in the language of results rather than activity.
AEO and GEO, the AI search half
Build and lead the agency's AEO and GEO capability.
Optimise clients to be surfaced and recommended in answer engines, so that when someone asks an AI assistant for the best provider in a category, our clients are in the answer.
Optimise for citation in generative results: trusted source signals, entity SEO, structured and easily parsed data, llm.txt and AI crawler considerations.
Track and grow AI-referred visibility across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude.
Translate a fast-moving field into practical strategy the agency can sell and deliver.
Paid search
Plan, run and optimise Google Ads and wider PPC campaigns across client accounts.
Manage meaningful ad budgets with clear ownership of return on investment and return on ad spend.
Bid and budget management, ad copy testing, landing page and Quality Score improvement.
Client and account ownership
Manage your own client accounts end to end and work directly with senior client stakeholders.
Work alongside the design and web team so that search requirements land in the build rather than being retrofitted.
Requirements
Essential
Minimum five years in SEO, the majority of it agency side.
Demonstrable ownership of your own client accounts.
Hands-on paid search experience across Google Ads and PPC, including responsibility for real ad budgets.
Technical SEO capability, not only content and keywords.
Quantified results you can talk through and defend: organic traffic growth, visibility, rankings, conversions, revenue or return on ad spend.
Strong reporting and analysis in GA4 and Google Search Console, plus at least one of Semrush, Ahrefs or Screaming Frog.
Excellent written and spoken English and confidence working directly with clients.
Reliable fibre or LTE internet, a working laptop and a quiet, dedicated home workspace.
Highly desirable
Direct AEO or GEO experience: AI Overviews, LLM visibility, entity SEO, structured data for AI parsing, brand citation signals or AI crawler analysis.
Experience across multiple markets or international clients.
Google Ads and Google Analytics certification.
Experience in a digital marketing agency that also builds websites.
A note on AEO and GEO: anyone who is expert in AEO and GEO will have come through SEO, so these skills sit on top of a proper SEO foundation. If you have deep senior SEO and paid search and you are actively moving into AI search, we would still like to hear from you.
Benefits
Fully remote, working from home in South Africa with a UK-based digital marketing agency.
Full-time, 40 hours per week, aligned to UK business hours.
Paid UK bank holidays.
Ownership of your own client accounts and direct access to senior stakeholders.
The chance to build an AEO and GEO capability from the ground up rather than inheriting someone else's playbook.
A varied client base across many industries, so no two accounts look the same.
A long-term placement with a growing agency, not project work.
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About Remote Recruitment
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