PEOPLE + CULTURE

PEOPLE + CULTURE

Meet the talented people and teams who mark our culture and drive our businesses and our brands forward.

At Advance Local, we celebrate our differences and embrace diversity. We believe in our brands, our value, and each other. Our employees enjoy a supportive culture, excellent benefits, development opportunities, and programs/initiatives designed to support and adapt with our growing and diverse teams.

Scroll to learn how we bring together unique perspectives, diverse backgrounds and experiences to serve our teams, customers and communities.

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Don’t just take it from us. Hear what our employees have to say:

Professional Development

We offer a variety of learning experiences and specialized programs designed to deliver unique opportunities that encourage growth at all stages of your career. Experience the support that helps you start strong, advance skills, stay current, and reach bigger goals.

Explore a selection of our professional development opportunities below:

ONBOARDING PROGRAM

Your success starts when you do. Through our onboarding program, you’re given a boost up by pairing you with another employee within your group to show you the ropes so you can quickly get up to speed and on the road to success within your first 90 days.

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

We practice real-time, ongoing and interactive Performance Management, designed to encourage growth and collaboration to create and meet your personal development goals while achieving business success.

ONGOING EDUCATION

Through a series of learning options, you’ll have access to up-to-date industry education and information, live training, self-paced online learning (technical & soft skills) and job-related skills training.

LEADERSHIP MENTOR PROGRAM

We select from our strong achievers to participate in our annual Leadership Mentor Program. The program is designed to accelerate the professional growth of employees to take on future leadership roles as critical leadership positions become available.

EARLY-CAREER DEVELOPMENT

We nurture emerging talent through various internship and fellowship opportunities, designed to introduce candidates to our career areas, build skills and gain experience for future opportunities.

INTERNAL ADVANCEMENT

Advance Local believes in finding and building talent from within. We broadcast our open positions internally, encouraging our employees to learn more, apply and interview.

“What I like best about working at Advance Local are the people I work with, the flexible nature of the job and the versatility of the projects we produce.”

Niyala, Events Producer

“What I like about working at Advance Local is definitely my team and the flexibility that we give one another. Working in customer service is definitely fast paced and I love how supportive we are of each other.”

Yasna, Customer Service Manager

“Advance Local is open to ideas and is constantly striving to innovate and finding new ways to do things and do things better.”

Jeff, Content & Design Director

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Central to our mission, to strengthen and empower the communities we serve, is advancing our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts – from our internal practices to the talent we attract and foster, to the content we create and the ways in which we interact with the communities where we operate.

While there’s still more work to be done, we’re proud of the systemic and cultural changes that we have implemented so far.

This is only the beginning of what we view as ongoing, continuous, and necessary change.

DEI Initiatives Highlights:

DEI TRAINING

We continue to bring in external partners to run specific DEI training and examine our DEI efforts.

DEI LEADERSHIP

Committed to diversity and inclusion, we’ve hired, as a member of our senior leadership team, a Vice President, DEI to help us further develop our strategic plan for our future efforts.

ACCOUNTABILITY

We annually report to our employees all our progress — and consequently, we expect them to hold us accountable to living up to our intentions.

HIRING & RECRUITING PRACTICES

We are reviewing our hiring and recruiting practices to attract a more diverse pool of candidates.

EMPLOYEE VOICES

We’ve established internal practices, like focus groups conducted by an independent firm, to give all employees the opportunity to share their lived experiences and voice concerns and suggestions for the path forward.

BENEFITS

We continue to evaluate and adjust our benefits to ensure they address the needs of our increasingly diverse workforce. For example, Juneteenth is now an official company holiday, benefits cover fertility, caregiver needs and mental wellness, and employees have free membership to an affiliate organization that fosters professional growth of women in media, marketing and tech.

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