Digital advertising specialist, paid search

Harvest Group is an integrated commerce agency that helps high-growth consumer brands win in today's complex retail landscape. Since 2006, we've partnered with some of the world's most recognized brands to navigate the intersection of in-store and digital commerce, retail media, and social platforms across leading retailers including Walmart, Sam's Club, Target, Amazon, Costco, and Kroger.

What sets Harvest Group apart is our connected approach. By aligning strategy, execution, and insights across every stage of the retail journey—and powering that work through our proprietary technology platform—we help brands create sustainable growth in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.

But our success starts with our people.

At Harvest Group, our culture and values shape how we work, serve our clients, and support one another. We believe in building meaningful relationships, pursuing excellence with humility, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do their best work while continuing to grow professionally and personally.

Our commitment to our people has earned recognition as one of the nation's best workplaces, including:

• Inc. Best Places to Work (2025, 2026)
• Great Place to Work Certified (2024)
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Women (2024)
• Fortune Best Medium Workplaces (2024)
• Fortune Best Consulting & Professional Services Workplaces (2024)
• Business Intelligence Group Best Places to Work (2023)

Our Values

• Integrity – Doing what is right in all things
• Relationship – Pursuing depth, trust, and collaboration
• Service – Laboring for others with humility and care
• Excellence – Delivering extraordinary performance and results with humility
• Journey – Embracing our past and planning for our future with faith

Description

The Advertising Specialist will play a key role in defining clients’ digital advertising strategy, with a specific focus on sponsored products. The role’s primary responsibility is planning, executing, and reporting on sponsored product campaigns while working in tandem with internal client teams and external stakeholders. Day-to-day activities include campaign optimization and managing client/team relationships. The Advertising Specialist will also inform internal client teams on important strategies and best practices within the advertising ecosystem. The ideal candidate will work to make sense of the many moving pieces of the sponsored advertising ecosystem, translating them into actionable strategic insights & choices.

For this role we prefer that candidates are based out of the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CT, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NE, NV, NC, NJ, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, or WI.

Responsibilities

• Inform strategy/planning and own execution for clients’ Paid Search advertising campaigns including Sponsored Products and DSP across multiple retailers
• Build, maintain, and report on advertising campaigns aligned to client goals
• Optimize and maintain campaigns, including analyzing current results to inform strategic tactical changes
• Collaborate across internal account teams, external client teams, and Retailer Media stakeholders to maximize performance for the clients’ retail media paid search advertising
• Guiding clients and client teams through clear and concise communication, both written and verbal
• Strategic thinking, adaptability, and insightful analysis to identify areas of opportunity, delivering optimized results
• Send weekly report to both client and Harvest Group account team with included analysis and insights of prior week’s activity and campaign results to date

Requirements

• 1-3 years’ experience with On-Site Paid Search and Display Campaign management with top Retail Media Networks (ex. Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, Criteo, CitrusAd, etc.); DSP advertising and audience building a strong plus
• Strong emphasis in analyzing data and drawing actionable insights, translating back to stakeholders
• Strategic thinker capable of analyzing data to inform and refine campaign execution
• Self-starter with a drive to innovate and constantly improve processes and results
• Experience in managing multiple stakeholders, achieving consensus on goals and objectives
• Ability to take ownership and work autonomously with little or no supervision
• Effective multitasker, able to efficiently prioritize and organize multiple projects
• Strong attention to detail and ability to make connections between small changes and big results
• Ability to translate large amounts of information into concise and actionable takeaways
• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Adept at learning new software programs and tools
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with a focus on Excel
• Willingness to travel

Preferred

• Experience developing digital advertising strategies on Walmart.com or Samsclub.com

What We Offer

Harvest Group understands that investing in our people and culture are vital to successfully attracting and retaining top talent. Our goal is to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. Each year, we invest time to research and evaluate how our packages line up with the latest market dynamics.

We carefully consider a wide-ranging list of factors to determine compensation, including but not limited to level of job-related experience, knowledge, skills, location, etc. Base pay is just one component of the total compensation and benefits package.

The national hiring range for this position is $60,000 - $65,000/annually. Additionally, this position is eligible to participate in our bonus program.

Our robust benefits package was created to help support employees physically, financially, and emotionally through life’s big milestones and in your everyday life. Benefits include but are not limited to Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Charitable Gift Matching Program, Volunteer Hours, and more!

Our heart at Harvest is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusivity, authenticity, mutual respect, professionalism, and growth. Harvest Group is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, age, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.