Associate Director, S&P

Croud

Associate Director in Strategy and Planning at Croud driving measurable growth for clients through strategy and media activation. Leading the team in strategy deployment and delivering results across multiple channels.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,000 - $130,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provoke action into tangible solutions that act as the connective tissue to drive success for our clients & Croud.
Responsible for growing our client’s business by creating strategies that connect insights to media activation to measurement.
Expanding the agency's playbook to deliver media plans that deliver measurable results.
Ensure strategy is deployed holistically across plans.
Creating compelling narratives that are able to engage and persuade various audiences.
Oversee audience, market, and competitor intelligence projects, ensuring that work is insightful and actionable.
Oversee measurement and testing strategy across channels, continuously optimizing investment decisions by translating performance data into clear actions regarding what to scale, shift, or stop across channels and campaigns.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience of elevating over campaign planning and having to drive demonstrable results for c-suite executives.
Expected to be an expert across all media, including digital, social and traditional, demonstrating advanced knowledge in all areas.
Extensive experience of presenting to clients and ’selling-in’ ideas, and of working closely with senior stakeholders to understand their business objectives.
Great communication and presentation skills, with good attention to detail.
Experience managing a team.
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 is preferred. These include (but are not limited to) 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 a bonus, but not a requirement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Employer paid life insurance coverage
Monthly wellness membership stipend
Access to health guidance and wellness resources
Free Citi bike membership
Hybrid workspace support - home office setup is provided
Agile working policy
Regularly scheduled social events and quarterly team offsites

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Hard Skills & Tools

Campaign PlanningMedia ActivationPerformance MeasurementMarket IntelligenceCompetitor Analysis

Soft Skills

Communication SkillsAttention to DetailPersuasion SkillsStakeholder Engagement