Cultural Blog

Liz Barrett talks about her role and how her journey has been so far at GumGum.

Our marketing intern, Samira Escobar, talks about her experience supporting the marketing team this year and how rewarding her role was to professional growth before entering the corporate world.

Our new VP of People Operations, Kelly Battelle, shares her journey to GumGum, tips on how to build your personal brand and much more...

Vanessa Rivero talks about her amazing experience launching our very first dinner series in every office and how those meaningful conversations are spearheading the future of our community in 2019!

I am the lead recruiter here at GumGum, which means I lead all of our recruiting efforts: not just the actual recruiting (finding the right candidates for various positions), but also different talent acquisition initiatives—candidate experience, diversity and inclusion, community engagement and so on.

Thomas Paine is a retired police officer, fitness buff, playing card collector, juggler and amateur (but passionate) magician. He is 75 years old and lives in Woodland Park, Colorado, a mountain community just outside Colorado Springs.

I love that I get to talk to our partners all day, every day. These are longtime partners that I’ve known since I started at GumGum, so the relationships are meaningful. On the flip side, I can also dive into the tech side of things with the help of our ad server team. 

Emma Lucas (left) and Momoko “Momo” Kaneko (right), the two newest members of GumGum Japan, are globetrotters with a flair for international business. It was really enjoyable to interview them both and learn more about their fascinating paths to GumGum.

Whitney Graves, GumGum’s Agency Relations Manager, recently moderated a panel discussion to help grasp the importance of understanding an agency mindset and create a forum for large-scale discussions on the agency experience.

​Our GumGum Hackathon competition was held July 11th-13th. For those who aren’t familiar, our Hackathon is an opportunity for employees across the globe to come together in teams of four (or less), bring an idea to life in 48 hours and ultimately showcase their creation to our panel of judges to compete for the $2,500 cash prize! 

GumGum employees have been gearing up for summer, getting in shape and making healthy choices together through “GumGum Fit”, our new health and wellness initiative.

Recently, they launched the Women Who Lunch initiative, which focuses on female empowerment and leadership within our industry, with some catered lunch to boot!