Senior Associate, Creative Technology

GALE is a 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 across automotive QSR retail gaming entertainment telecom and more. Founded in 2014 GALE has offices in New York Denver Kansas City Singapore Toronto Austin Los Angeles London and Bengaluru.

Some brands we work with include Starbucks Uber Chilis Fogo de Chão Don Julio Intercontinental Hotels Group Hard Rock Got Milk Pella and BMO.

If youre 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.

About the Role

As a Senior Associate Creative Technology you will help build immersive interactive and visually compelling digital experiences that bring brand stories to life. This role is ideal for a strong front-end or creative technologist who enjoys translating design intent into polished performant and engaging web experiences.

You will work closely with designers UX teams content creators and engineers to develop responsive animation-rich websites and interactive experiences. You should be highly detail-oriented comfortable working across modern front-end stacks and excited by the intersection of storytelling design and technology.

What Youll Do

• Build production-quality reusable and performant components using React and TypeScript

• Contribute to and consume shared component libraries documented and tested in Storybook across desktop and mobile variants

• Translate visual concepts storyboards and motion ideas into polished pixel-perfect web experiences

• Implement interactive features such as scroll-driven narratives parallax micro-interactions and dynamic content transitions using GSAP Framer Motion CSS animation or hand-built solutions where component libraries dont cover motion

• Integrate front-end experiences with headless CMS platforms primarily Contentful alongside WordPress including content modelling preview flows and structured content APIs

• Build data visualizations and interactive components using or similar

• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs backend services and data layers (e.g. DynamoDB Redis-backed caching)

• Support deployment and CI/CD workflows on AWS across environments working alongside DevOps

• Own performance outcomes: Core Web Vitals Lighthouse scores image and font optimization bundle size and rendering strategy (SSR SSG ISR)

• Ensure experiences meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility

• Participate in code reviews testing and documentation and help raise the bar on engineering practices

• Use AI-assisted development tools effectively as part of day-to-day delivery and stay current on emerging AI-enabled web experiences

What Were Looking For

• 46 years of experience in front-end development creative technology or full-stack web development

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6) TypeScript HTML5 and modern CSS (Flexbox Grid custom properties container queries)

• Demonstrable production experience with React and App Router server and client components and rendering strategy trade-offs

• Hands-on experience with a headless CMS (Contentful strongly preferred) and an understanding of content modelling

• Proven ability to build animation and interaction work: GSAP Framer Motion ScrollTrigger or equivalent. WebGL/ experience is a plus

• Familiarity with component-driven development and design systems including Storybook

• Comfort with Git-based workflows: feature branching code review rebasing and conflict resolution

• Working knowledge of cloud deployment (AWS preferred) and CI/CD pipelines

• A strong eye for detail and the ability to hold a design teams intent through to the shipped build

• Experience partnering directly with designers UX and content teams in an agency or client-services environment

• Bonus: styling systems (Tailwind CSS Modules styled-components) testing (Jest Playwright Cypress) analytics/event instrumentation

Who You Are

• A creative technologist with strong front-end fundamentals and an eye for detail

• Someone who enjoys building engaging digital experiences at the intersection of design and engineering

• A collaborative team player who works well with designers writers strategists and developers

• Curious about emerging technologies and excited to experiment with new tools and approaches

• Committed to clean code strong execution and continuous learning