Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

The Harvest Group
The Harvest Group

People & HR

Posted on Nov 12, 2026
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Position: Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
Location: Rogers, AR
Job Id: 637
# 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 Senior Director of Talent Acquisition is a key leader responsible for setting the vision and strategy for how Harvest Group identifies, attracts, and hires exceptional talent to support our continued growth. Reporting directly to the Chief People Officer, this role will lead the Talent Acquisition function and team, serving as a strategic advisor to leaders across the organization.
This leader will be responsible for building and executing a forward-looking talent acquisition strategy that aligns with the needs of the business while ensuring an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience. They will bring a strong understanding of the external talent landscape and continuously evaluate how market trends, competitive activity, technology, data, and emerging recruiting practices should shape our approach.
We're looking for a strategic, business-minded Talent Acquisition leader who can cast vision while also driving execution. The ideal candidate is passionate about talent, energized by building and developing high-performing teams, and brings a service-first mindset and strong ownership mentality to their work.
The preference is for this role to be based in Rogers, AR.

Responsibilities

Strategy and Business Partnership
  • Set the talent acquisition strategy and align it with Harvest Group’s growth plans
  • Ensure the team delivers against the organization’s hiring needs
  • Advise the Chief People Officer and executive team on market conditions and talent trends
  • Partner with leaders on role scoping, compensation, and offer strategy
Team Leadership
  • Lead, coach, and develop the Talent Acquisition team
  • Build a team structure and operating rhythm that scales with hiring volume
  • Personally lead searches for senior and hard-to-fill roles
Candidate and Hiring Manager Experience
  • Set and uphold standards for communication, speed, and transparency at every stage
  • Maintain structured, fair interview and assessment practices across the organization
Data, Technology, and Budget
  • Own our recruiting technology, reporting, and key metrics, and share results and recommendations with senior leaders
  • Manage the TA budget and hold vendors and agency partners accountable
Employer Brand and Sourcing
  • Build sourcing strategies that bring in diverse, high-quality talent
  • Strengthen our employer brand with CPG and retail media audiences
Requirements
  • 12+ years of talent acquisition experience, including 5+ years leading recruiting teams
  • Track record of building and executing a recruiting strategy in a fast-growing, service-based or agency environment
  • Experience sourcing and hiring across a range of functions, such as client services, sales, media, marketing, analytics, and technical roles
  • Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop recruiters and to build a team that performs at a high level
  • Strong command of recruiting data, including pipeline health, time to fill, quality of hire, and the ability to turn it into recommendations for senior leaders
  • Experience managing an applicant tracking system, plus a budget that may include vendors and agency partners
  • Ability to influence and advise executives and earn trust with hiring managers at every level
  • Strong negotiation skills, with experience closing senior and hard-to-fill candidates
  • Experience designing structured interview and assessment processes that are fair, consistent and tied-in with specific business objectives
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and keep multiple searches moving at once
  • Willingness to travel
Preferred
  • Experience recruiting for CPG, retail media, ecommerce, or marketing agencies
  • Experience building employer brand or candidate pipelines
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.
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