Marketing Associate, Urban Jungle
£28.5-32k
+ Share Options
4+ days a week in office
Insurance for the demands of a new generation
Be an early applicant
Insurance for the demands of a new generation
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£28.5-32k
+ Share Options
4+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make home insurance that’s fair - to you, your wallet, and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- We’re not looking for any previous experience, so long as you can demonstrate a genuine interest in marketing and/ or how brands communicate
- You’re excited to learn about - and get stuck into - a broad range of marketing areas and channels, including creating compelling copy or content
- A natural problem solver, you love asking questions and you’re never afraid to say “I don’t know.”
- You’re analytical, and interested in working out why something has happened
- You’re a self-starter, who makes their own opportunities and pushes tasks to completion
- You’re good at explaining exactly what you mean and know how to tailor your communication to different audiences
- You’re passionate about helping customers, and excited by Urban Jungle’s mission to make insurance fairer
- These requirements are a guide as to what we’re looking for, but if you don’t have all of the skills listed above, that’s okay! Please don’t let that hold you back from applying if the role excites you
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a driven and enthusiastic Marketing Associate to help us achieve our ambitious growth plans
- In this role, you'll be working alongside our 3 strong marketing team, jumping in wherever the company needs you most. We operate across a huge range of marketing channels (Google PPC, Partnerships, Email, Social, and TV, etc.), so this is your chance to get hands-on experience and quickly learn and build your skills across a broad range of areas
- Whether you’re testing ways to get more sales from search ads, creating engaging content for TikTok, or setting up a completely new channel, you'll have a key role in showing people why Urban Jungle is different and growing our customer base - coming up with ideas, getting them live and measuring how they perform
- Working closely alongside our Head of Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer, you’ll get tons of responsibility and rapidly grow your ownership skills as you and the company learn and develop
- You’ll be a marketing generalist, taking ownership of delivering marketing tests and campaigns
- You’ll use a mixture of creative, analytical and project management skills to contribute ideas on what to do next, executing those ideas, and running analysis on how they performed
- You’ll utilise customer and competitive insights to create compelling and effective marketing communication, including briefing and developing creative with 3rd parties (e.g designers) and writing copy yourself
- You’ll get to dive into data from a range of sources to inform decisions, set goals and measure the impact of the tests we ship
- You’ll work collaboratively with the rest of the business to make things happen
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Urban Jungle was founded in 2016 by a team from both in and outside of the insurance industry. Jimmy Williams and Greg Smyth noticed that the insurance industry was moving at a really slow pace, hardly taking advantage of the available technology and often leaving customers behind, especially younger ones. Now Urban Jungle is the top rated home insurance provider in the UK.
Modern insurers have inherited, from their 80s predecessors, a highly inefficient general approach to the industry: when launching a new system, only new customers are included in it, while old customers remain in the old system. Customer Service Operatives at really big insurers are fishing in different systems to find people's records and that does not favour productivity at all. The challenge with Urban Jungle’s process is to build up the insurance experience from scratch taking advantage of the technology that has been developed in recent years, reducing costs and empowering customers.
Special attention needs to be paid to the insurance product. The responsiveness to the way people's risks are changing over time is a key aspect that insurers should always bear in mind. Adapting the insurance product to ever-changing needs is definitely the main challenge for Urban Jungle and its competitors, and the best way to do it is to keep continuous and direct contact with customers. Regularly testing the current insurance offer and showing readiness when adapting the product to a new necessity is the real turning point and what Urban Jungle is working for.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2024
$15m
SERIES A
May 2022
$22.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $58.7m
Company benefits
- Share options that can increase alongside performance and growth
- 25 days paid annual leave, plus public holidays
- Rapid Progression. We’ll give you the opportunity to experience loads, and develop rapidly. You’ll get tons of responsibility from day one, and all the feedback, coaching and support you need to fuel your career growth
- Real Impact. You’ll work on big, interesting problems that will challenge you, and do so in a way that has a positive impact on people’s lives, the planet and our community
- A Clear Plan. We’ll give you the clarity on what we want to achieve, with the freedom and autonomy for you to decide how we get there
- The Best People. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who are exceptional at what they do, whilst being kind, honest people who champion our values
- A dedicated development budget, access to a senior mentor, and training on whatever you need to do your job well
- Well-being support. We’re committed to supporting both physical and mental well-being through access to therapy, weekly onsite yoga, and subsidised sports clubs
- Enhanced parental leave, and support for parents returning to work
- All. The. Fun. We regularly organise awesome socials and have some vibrant team communities such as book club and foodies
Company values
- Customer First. We do the right thing, even when no one is watching. We’ll always talk to our community of customers to stay on top of what that is
- Be Responsible. We don’t just say we care, we show it with our actions. We make decisions that take into account the world around us, whether that be considering the environment, supporting diversity or creating a great place to work
- Keep Getting Better. We always look for ways to innovate and improve next time. We’re open and honest about what’s working and not
- Aim For Extraordinary. Nothing daunts us. We never back away from the toughest problems, and hold ourselves to the highest standards. We’re setting a new pace in an industry that moves slowly
Company HQ
Lambeth, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jimmy Williams
(Co-Founder & CEO)Their background is in Consulting, where they worked with various insurers, tech providers in financial services, and price comparison sites, as a Principal at OC&C.
Greg Smyth
(Co-Founder & CTO)They were most recently VP of Research and Data Technology at Winton Capita. Previously they worked at Facebook, starting their first engineering team in London, and Google.
People progressing
Julia joined the team as a Data Analyst in 2020, and was promoted to Senior Data Analyst after 1 year. Now Julia is a Director of Analytics and BI.
Tiago joined Urban as a Software Engineer in 2019, and after several promotions, they are now a Principal Engineer.
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