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Jonathan Harris

Astoria,NY

Summary

Senior Digital Marketing Professional with 12+ years experience:

  • 6 years experience on the Ad Agency side, 5 years B2B/SaaS experience
  • Digital Marketing Channels: SEM/Paid Search (Search Engine Marketing), Native Display, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Paid Social (Facebook, Twitter)
  • 5+ years supervisory experience overseeing 1-3 direct reports
  • History of managing $20M+ annual budgets in Paid Media
  • Google Bid Algorithm expert: Consistently saving at least -30% in upfront CPL (Cost-per-Lead) acquisition costs and -15% on down funnel CPA costs in first 90 days
  • Career Path Summary: Ad Agencies (6 years) > Wells Fargo (5 years) > Series A Start-Ups

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of SEM

Tomo Mortgage
07.2023 - Current

Focus: Tomo Marketing Services for Real Estate Agents, provide qualified leads (potential home buyers) to Agents nationwide.

  • Decreased CPL (Cost-per-Lead) for campaigns by 25% in the first 30 days (from $60 to $45) by implementing "Home vs. Away" Geo-fencing strategy
  • Migrated SEM campaigns to Search Ads 360 (SA360). Leveraging SA360 Portfolio Bidding to improve post-lead conversion (lead > appointment) optimization: Increased lead to appointment conversion rates by 100% (from 7% to 14%) in 90 days by automating offline conversion imports of appointments into the Google SA360 bidding algorithm
  • Improved page speed by 50%: Worked with Engineering and Product to implement Server Side Tracking for Google Tag Manager. This reduced the impact of advertising tags on mobile page load times significantly.

Director of Growth

Array
01.2022 - 06.2022

Focus: Bestcreditcard.com (B2C) + Array Offers Engine (B2B/SaaS/Tech)

Results:

  • Audited & Restructured SEM (Paid Search) campaigns to improve ROI from 10% to 100%+ in 3 months
  • Implemented GA4 custom event tracking with Engineering Team to enhance LTV (Lifetime Value) based reporting and optimizations on-site. As a result we saw a 35%+ improvement in credit quality of leads referred to banks
  • Created 20+ automated Looker (Google) Data Studio Dashboards for C-Suite/Execs, external partners and stakeholders
  • Optimized SEO Meta Descriptions + Product Marketing Inputs for Offers Engine (Credit) Product

Digital Marketing Lead

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
04.2017 - 01.2022

Focus: Consumer Credit Cards, Small Business Credit Card

Results:

  • Directly responsible for 307% ROI for Credit Cards Paid Search Program - Highest out of all Lines of Business in Bank
  • Launched large integrated campaigns for Wells Fargo Propel (2018) and Active Cash/Reflect (2021) credit cards to market
  • Directly responsible for driving an estimated $100M in sustainable low risk, high FICO card balances through in 2017 and $200M in Revenue in 2018 through my managed PPC channels (Paid Search, Gmail, Yahoo Native, ROKT, Taboola)
  • Drove new account write offs (bad debt) down by -50% (2016 - 2018) from 30% in 2016 to 15% in 2018 while scaling account volume up

Methods:

  • Account restructures for Paid Search + Display Native
  • Onboarding new publisher partnerships for the bank (i.e. - Taboola, ROKT) to expand volume and discover new sources of quality traffic
  • Quality Assurance Audits & Tracking discrepancy resolution
  • SEM Bid Portfolio optimization refinement and tool migration from AMO (Adobe) to SearchAds360 (Google)
  • Improving audience targeting strategy via 1st party data segmentation

Search Engine Marketing Supervisor

Dentsu Aegis Network
12.2014 - 06.2016

Client: Microsoft Commercial (B2B/SaaS/Tech)

Results:

  • Directly responsible for driving estimated $5M in revenue (2,500 B2B warm leads) for Microsoft Azure product through upper funnel Cloud awareness campaigns. This was a 400%+ increase over the legacy campaign (which only drove $1M annually)
  • Drove additional estimated $5M in revenue for Office 365 SMB/Enterprise by improving operational processes for SEM campaigns (Globally, across 25 different countries in multiple time zones)

Most Impactful Methods:

  • Provided Business Use Case to push strategic change for the Cloud Computing Awareness campaign to have both a dual awareness and lead generation KPI goal. This change in orientation led to a more streamlined campaign structure (and bidding methodology) which led to Paid Search contributing the same awareness levels at a -50% more efficient CPC and doubling the attributed revenue Year over Year
  • For Microsoft Office 365 SMB: Large Bid Management tool migration from Kenshoo to Marin + Global AdWords account restructures, along with providing thought leadership to EMEA and ASEAN regional counterparts on bid management strategy moving forward.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - International Relations

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Skills

  • Budget, Forecasting & Stakeholder Management (Legal, Compliance, Finance)
  • Vendor (Ad Agencies, MarTech partners, etc) & Project Management (Agile, JIRA)
  • Data Visualization: Google/Looker Data Studio, Google Analytics (GA4), Tableau
  • Excel Power User: VLOOKUP, Data Filters, Pivot Tables, SUMIFs, Concatenate, Basic Macros

Timeline

Director of SEM

Tomo Mortgage
07.2023 - Current

Director of Growth

Array
01.2022 - 06.2022

Digital Marketing Lead

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
04.2017 - 01.2022

Search Engine Marketing Supervisor

Dentsu Aegis Network
12.2014 - 06.2016

Bachelor of Arts - International Relations

Drexel University
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