Associate Director

Associate Director, Growth

GALE is a creative business agency that brings business insights to brand storytelling and activates it across every channel. With expertise in business strategy, media, CRM, addressable and integrated brand communications, performance marketing, and technology, GALE creates marketing systems and communications that grow businesses. GALE delivers strong outcomes for its partners in Fin Tech, QSR, retail, gaming, entertainment, home services and more.

Founded in 2014, the agency currently has offices in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Bengaluru, Austin, Denver and Kansas City.

GALE is a creative business agency that brings business insights to brand storytelling and activates it across every channel. With expertise in business strategy, media, CRM, addressable and integrated brand communications, performance marketing, and technology, GALE creates marketing systems and communications that grow businesses. GALE delivers strong outcomes for its partners in Fin Tech, QSR, retail, gaming, entertainment, home services and more.

Founded in 2014, the agency currently has offices in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Bengaluru, Austin, Denver and Kansas City.

Some Brands We Work With:
Uber, Delta, Starbucks, Diageo, Hard Rock, MilkPEP, Pella, Money Lion, Waymo, BMO, Goldman Sachs, Creative Planning, NBA, Chilli’s, & Bain Capital.

If you’re driven by a passion to build something great, a desire to innovate, and a commitment to achieve excellence in your craft, GALE is a great place for you.

GALE is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The Associate Director of Growth sits at the center of how GALE competes and wins. This role is equal parts strategic thinker and execution engine, someone who can absorb complex business challenges, synthesize intelligence from across the agency, and help shape the narratives and strategies that define how GALE shows up in market. Working closely with the Director of Growth and senior leadership, the AD will lead live pitch processes end-to-end, bring a point of view to how we position our integrated capabilities, and find smarter, faster ways to do the work, including through active, fluent use of AI tools.

If you're energized by high-stakes competition, love building something that wins, and want a front-row seat to how a top-tier agency goes to market, this role has real runway.

• 10+ years of prior agency account management, strategy, or business development experience, ideally within a creative, media, digital, or integrated marketing agency
• Able to engage substantively with capability questions in at least one or two of the following areas: media, creative, CRM, or loyalty, enough to pressure-test a narrative, spot gaps in a response, and eventually own a larger portion of the strategic story
• Experienced in leading and presenting strategic recommendations both verbally and in writing, with excellent interpersonal, presentation, and written communication skills
• Able to set direction and manage multiple work streams, deliverables, and stakeholders across complex, fast-moving new business opportunities
• Highly organized, attentive, and detail oriented, with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous opportunities and pitch processes
• Actively using AI tools to accelerate research, deliverable development, and workflow, with enough fluency to build their own efficiencies without waiting to be shown how.
• A proactive and technically curious problem solver with a flexible, collaborative style and the confidence to influence…