GALE Development Program - Strategy

GALE is a Business Agency that brings its insights to brand storytelling and activates it across every channel. With expertise in business strategy, media, CRM, brand communications, performance marketing and technology, GALE creates integrated marketing systems and communications that grow businesses. Founded in 2014, the agency has since been named Ad Age Data and Analytics Agency of the Year and Adweek’s Breakthrough Media Agency of the Year. 

We work with Hard Rock, MilkPEP, H&R Block, Dropbox, and more. 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 has nine offices around the world, including New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Kansas City, London, Bengaluru and Singapore. GALE embraces a hybrid, flexible workplace with employees asked to attend the office three days per week. 

As a global agency, we are currently hiring across multiple locations within North America, please apply today to learn more. You can check our office locations here.

How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter (max. 500 words) by Friday, February 28, 2025. In your cover letter, describe why you are interested in the program, what makes you a good fit and why GALE.

Your Impact 

The GALE Development Program is a hands-on program that will set you upon the path of a career in business and marketing strategy development. Candidates will be exposed to advanced strategy techniques, client engagement, business strategy, enhanced communications and marketing channels.  You will gain hands-on learning within a strategy cohort focusing on actual solutions for clients.  This knowledge will set you upon a path to ideate, plan, deploy and deliver an assortment of strategic offerings through a broad business acumen. This program will start on June 3rd, 2025.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE:

During your first three months, you will learn the fundamentals of media, creative, CRM and/or business strategy. Upon completion of the learning phase, you will be placed into a strategy analyst pool that supports strategy teams across clients for the remainder of the year to hone your skills in strategy. You will be paired with a Strategy mentor to further support your development. At the end of the Development Program, you will pursue an Associate position in the Strategy domain.

• First 3 months - Learning
• Learn the fundamentals of strategy ideation and planning, building strategic frameworks and activating these strategies.
• Collaborate across strategy disciplines at GALE (media, CRM, creative, and business strategy) to learn how strategy concepts are deployed specific to these areas.
• Understand the difference between marketing strategies and business focused strategies.
• Learn how GALE’s strategy teams advise and guide internal, cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrate your ability to collaborate, use existing resources, and integrate what you’ve learned in a Capstone Project. 

• Final 9 months - Mentorship
• Collaborate with multiple disciplines (e.g., data science, tech, design) to deliver powerful integrated strategy work.
• Frame the data/available information in a manner to support effective insights gathering.
• Translate and structure hypotheses from the team into a story.
• Support RFP efforts through specific desk research and referencing best-in-class GALE deliverables.
• Conduct analysis to understand the client’s business model, customers, industry, and competitors.
• Manage competing priorities, deliverables, and timelines to exceed client expectations.

• Structured thinker, able to rapidly drive generation of insights and implications.
• Proactive, self-starter mentality.
• Curious and creative mindset.
• Highly collaborative, passionate, and dedicated to your development. 
• Take initiative, ownership and accountability.
• Excited to learn how the organization functions and develop new skills.
• Passionate about contributing to GALE’s continued growth.
• Prior experience, and/or affinity for, digital/marketing strategy work.
• Demonstrated ability and comfort working with client stakeholders.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a high degree of attention to detail.
• Capacity to take initiative in a fast-moving environment.
• Collaborative and team-oriented mindset

Note: Hybrid work in office is an essential function of the job.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We believe in inclusivity and do our best work when people with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skills are brought together. Our Core Values are at the root of GALE’s collaborative environment and help to foster a strong community. Our Code of Conduct, Human Resources policies, and executive investment in inclusion further support and protect GALE’s inclusive workplace. 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. 

Our Hiring Process

We want you to be just as discerning in making your next career move as we are finding great talent to join our team. Our interview process will allow you to meet a range of people from various disciplines and domains both virtually and in person. Please discuss with our recruiters if you require any accommodations throughout the process to help enable a smooth interview.