Associate Director, Strategy & Planning

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $130K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-channel client strategies and the storytelling that ties media plans to business outcomes, with emphasis on data-driven brand building, vision setting, and joint growth initiatives.

  • Growth orchestration: Lead multi-channel planning and executive-ready storytelling across 5–6 initiatives with data-backed investment decisions.
  • Strategic partnerships: Define digital program vision and drive tactics across paid, search, content, and discovery channels.
  • Measurement discipline: Oversee attribution, testing, and optimization to translate data into actions for scale or stop decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Complex Problem Solving: Building from scratch and turning solutions into client-ready strategies without relying on tools or standard industry playbooks.
  • Data-Driven Brand Building: Connect client business needs to brand growth through outcomes-based media planning.
  • Deployment of Vision & Partnerships: Define a digital program's strategic vision and execute tactics across media channels.
  • Innovation: Lead ideation sessions to turn ideas into actionable programs or products.
  • Collaboration: Facilitate brainstorming to spur growth and develop actionable programs or products.
  • New Business: Collaborate with new business teams on Croud’s proposition and platform storytelling for cross-channel clients.
  • Examples will include: Working with senior stakeholders to identify marketing challenges and coordinating cross-team plans.
  • Lead cross-channel media planning across 5-6 priority initiatives, informing investment decisions with data and deploying strategy holistically.
  • Creating compelling narratives to engage diverse audiences.
  • Oversee audience, market, and competitor intelligence projects, ensuring insights are actionable.

Requirements

  • Essential: Experience elevating campaign planning and driving demonstrable results for c-suite executives.
  • Essential: Expert across all media, including digital, social and traditional, with advanced knowledge in all areas.
  • Essential: Extensive experience presenting to clients and selling-in ideas with senior stakeholders to understand business objectives.
  • Essential: Great communication and presentation skills, with good attention to detail.
  • Essential: Experience managing a team.
  • Desirable: Exposure to big budgets, complex organizational structures with multiple stakeholders and overlapping planning processes.
  • Desirable: Hands-on experience with key digital platforms (Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, DV360).
  • Desirable: Represent Croud at industry events, public speaking and thought leadership.
  • Desirable: Experience in CPG and/or Multi Brand Retail is a bonus but not required.

Preferred

  • Exposure to big budgets, complex organization structure with multiple stakeholders, overlapping planning processes with multiple competing priorities.
  • Hands-on experience of key digital marketing platforms including Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, DV360.
  • Represent Croud at industry events, public speaking and thought leadership.
  • Experience in CPG and/or Multi Brand Retail is a bonus, but not a requirement.

Benefits

  • 20 days vacation a year with 12 public holidays observed
  • Early finish throughout the summer months
  • Enhanced paid parental leave
  • Healthy in-office meals and snacks
  • 401(k) Savings Plan
  • Sales commission with pitch opportunities
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Full paid medical Insurance for employee (including dental and vision)
  • Dependent contribution to medical, dental and vision coverage
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Croud

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We're an independent global media, creative, and data agency helping our clients make their next best move.We help brands unlock growth with a Return on Intelligence - applying innovative intelligence across brand strategy, integrated media, social, creative, and data. In a world where agility is essential and not all returns are created equal, we bring transparency, speed, and incrementality-focused measurement to fuel growth and unlock true value.Founded in 2011 with the mission to reinvent the agency model, we combine 600+ in-house digital experts with a global, on-demand network of 2,900 marketing specialists. This agile, scalable model gives us more time to really understand our clients’ businesses, and deliver truly incremental growth.Croud has recently acquired Vert Digital, an Atlanta-based digital marketing agency, and Metageni, an analytics specialist, having previously acquired leading social-first agency Born Social, Croud Luxe (formerly VERB Brands), and impakt Advisors.Croud is proud to partner with leading global brands including Audible, IWG, Frasers Group, Nespresso, and Prime Video, alongside Born Social’s impressive client list which includes Ford, Barclays and Diageo (Guinness).Contact the team at partnerships@croud.com for a chat, to set up an intro or any other further information.We are always looking for the very best talent, so if you're interested in working for Croud please check out careers.croud.com

Founded in 2011
London, England, GBR
741 employees (305 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
66% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
60.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.3%
Direct
34.3%
Referral
6.3%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~742

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
288 (39% of company)
Median Career Experience
10.5 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Total Funding
$38.5M
Last Raise
$38.5M
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2019
    Private Equity • $38.5M

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