Senior Director, Media Operations

Harvest Group; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

PTO

Gift Matching

Job summary

Harvest Group is seeking a Senior Director, Media Operations to lead delivery standards and scalable operations for media activation pods. This remote role reports to the VP of Media and Marketing and requires strong leadership, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration across retail media partners.

Candidates should have 10+ years in operations or program management within a media/agency environment, plus proficiency with workflow tools (e.g., Monday.com) and AI-enabled processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in operations, strategic planning, product, or program management in a media/agency environment

Responsibilities

• Own delivery standards and the repeatable service model across activation pods and retailers
• Rollout and implement internal and external programs and products with KPIs
• Lead and develop the Operations team and create clear career paths
• Support capacity and resourcing, tracking work against revenue and profitability governance
• Oversee centralized auditing, onboarding, and activation support
• Own workflow tooling and standard operational analytics and dashboards (Monday.com)
• Lead AI enablement by creating and deploying AI skills and workflows
• Build and run training and enablement with partner leaders
• Partner with media leaders to align Operations priorities with client needs
• Manage the Operations budget and investment cases for resources

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Ownership

Business acumen

Tools

Monday.com

Excel

PowerPoint

BI Platforms

LLMs / AI workflows

Job description

Position:Senior Director, Media Operations

Location: Remote

Job Id:627

# of Openings:1

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 Sr. Director, Media Operations builds how Harvest media delivers one standard way of working across activation pods and retailers, so quality is truly scaled. Reporting to the VP of Media and Marketing, this individual builds and leads a growing team that supports media activation pods and partners with other media leadership.

This hybrid role combines media operations with strategic planning, product, and program management, and operates across several core areas: delivery standards and service design, capacity and resourcing, profitability and scope governance, workflow tooling, AI, and platform enablement, and training and capability building. This individual also drives progress against the organization's growth goals and owns measurable outcomes, including gross margin recovery, revenue per head and utilization, onboarding cycle time, and scope leakage.

This is a remote position. 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, NC, NV, NJ, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, or WI.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery standards and the repeatable service model across activation pods and retailers, including the service blueprint, RACI by client tier, stage‑gated onboarding, and what we deliver at what scope
• Own the rollout and implementation of internal and external programs and products: build adoption goals and milestones, identify key stakeholders and roadblocks, equip and train the working team, track implementation through KPIs, and proactively remove barriers to scaling
• Build, lead, and develop the Operations team, including those who support the operating rhythm inside each activation pod (workflow, accountability, and client goal tracking), and create clear career paths as the organization scales
• Support capacity and resourcing, tracking who works on what against revenue, surfacing capacity risk before it reaches a client, and reporting on profitability and scope governance, giving function owners the visibility to make resourcing decisions
• Oversee centralized team for auditing, onboarding, and activation support
• Own workflow tooling and standard operational analytics, dashboards, and templates (capacity, profitability, scope, delivery health, and workflow), with workload visibility in Monday.com, to reduce manual effort and create greater consistency and scale. Performance analytics sits outside this role
• Lead AI enablement by creating and deploying AI skills and workflows that reduce manual work across retailer APIs, Skai, and reporting, and train the team to use them
• Build and run training and enablement, including role profiles, and project‑manage retailer and industry readouts, with content owned by partner and functional leaders
• Partner with the media leaders and client leads to align Operations priorities with client needs, resourcing, and delivery
• Manage the Operations budget, support vendor and platform joint business plans, and investment cases for resources

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in operations, strategic planning, product, or program management, with direct experience in a media or agency environment and a strong understanding of its service model
• 7+ years of experience leading project managers or a PMO, including workflow, RACI, and stage‑gate processes
• 5+ years of leadership experience, with a track record of building and scaling teams and influencing cross‑functional partners
• Proven track record of creating adoption goals, and the ability to design and roll out standard ways of working across multiple teams and client accounts
• Strong business acumen, including capacity and resource planning, forecasting, and budget management
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including comfort presenting to senior leaders and clients
• High level of ownership, curiosity, and a solution‑oriented mindset, with success leading a distributed, remote team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), BI Platforms, and workflow tools such as Monday.com, with hands‑on experience using LLMs to build AI skills and automated workflows

Preferred

• Experience in retail media operations, including working with multiple key retailers and services (Walmart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon, Media, Shopper, Digital Commerce) and platforms such as Skai

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 the Sr. Director position is $175,000 - $200,000/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.