Head of Marketing, Zen Educate & Zen Locum
4+ days a week in office
Education and healthcare recruitment platform
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Education and healthcare recruitment platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
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Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
62% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
With UK schools under immense financial pressure, Zen Educate is providing a smarter approach to education staffing. Recruitment in schools often relies on inefficient and expensive practices. Zen Educate is focused on tackling the pain points in the industry and providing a way to ensure schools get the best teachers possible.
It provides an online platform as an alternative to recruitment agencies, which is the only online platform accredited by the UK's Department of Education, helping schools fill staffing needs quickly and cost-effectively. Schools using the platform have reportedly saved 20-30% on supply cover costs. Zen Educate aims to save the education system £14 million per year by 2024 with its smarter approach.
Zen also operates Zen Locum, a service aimed at solving similar problems for pharmacies and opticians. Offering higher rates and greater flexibility than bigger locum health services such as Tesco Pharmacy, it has already seen high uptake with over 500 new joiners a month.
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Benefits
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Pension scheme
- Regular socials🥳
- Ownership in the company🚀
- Macbook and tech equipment provided 👩💻
- Investment in your professional development📈
Company values
- Commit to the mission- We commit to our mission, our customers, and our teams. We work hard because we care more
- Choose greatness over comfort- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. We seek greatness. We understand success takes grit & determination so we seek colleagues that possess it
- Act like an owner- We all take responsibility for driving the company forward and making it a success. If we see something that could be better, we fix it. We offer stock options to all employees
- Help each other be better- Every person at Zen is someone we can respect and learn from
- A culture of trust- We hire people who are great at their jobs and we let them get on with it while being there to lend a hand when needed
- Challenge the status quo- We take action when we can see opportunities for improvement. We are in it to make our customers' lives better and to fix a broken system
- Embrace learning over perfection- We make decisions quickly and we don't hesitate. We may disagree with a decision, but we support the team and the mission by committing to it. We embrace making unknowable mistakes and learning from them
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Oct 2022
$24.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82.4m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(CCO)Ran the UK office of Optimizely, a Silicon Valley tech company. Prior to this, they worked at G-STAT and Intel.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zen Educate & Zen Locum
- At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all
- We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work
- We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team
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Opportunities to learn (1)
Career progression (1)
Meaningful work (1)
Hard working team (1)
My opinions are valued (1)
Open and honest communication (1)
Supportive management (1)
Great work is recognised (1)
Inspiring mission (1)
Joined at a time when it was still a really small team and had the chance to learn a ton about data, strategy, and automation to help us to focus on smart work from very early on. Taking that learning we've built out functions that helped us scale all of our teams and have given me the chance to keep learning.
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Apr 2023
I'd always wanted to be a part of a business where the culture was taken as seriously as the work. With all of our teams, as we've grown, we've had new joiners that add to the culture and make it an even better place to work. It's a team of genuinely good people.
Operations & Strategy
Nice people
Apr 2023
As in any startup, there are loads of problems that you can work on fixing. You've got the chance to sink your teeth into projects and your own functions that can have a huge impact on the rest of the business. That work doesn't go unnoticed and people's contributions are celebrated.
Operations & Strategy
Great work is recognised
Apr 2023
Zen Educate works hard to coach and develop its team members. Graduates are given opportunities to take ownership over projects and high performers quickly progress. If you work hard, you will do well here.
Operations & Strategy
Career progression
Mar 2021
At Zen Educate, there is a culture of open communication. This goes both ways, as managers also seek feedback on how they can improve. The company sets clear direction on how you can achieve, and calls out achievements as well as works closely with you on development areas.
Operations & Strategy
Open and honest communication
Mar 2021
Every decision is always stripped back and broken down into what the core problem is. The level of data required depends on the size of the problem at hand, which is what keeps it interesting. Sometimes it is a quick bar chart, and at other times it is a full spreadsheet required to provide the data we need!
Operations & Strategy
Data-driven decisions
Mar 2021
It's great to know that our product and team are helping schools save money so they can spend more of their budget on the kids.
Product
Meaningful work
Dec 2020
I joined Zen as a junior developer and from day one I was given meaningful projects to work on; a good balance of 'in at the deep end' but with enough support not to feel overwhelmed. I contribute to decisions made about our codebase and am never made to feel like my thoughts aren't as important as anyone with more experience.
Product
My opinions are valued
Dec 2020
We have a great team of inspiring people who are super friendly, and who all teach me so much each week. I've felt very welcomed despite starting remotely because of COVID.
Product
Nice people
Dec 2020
The education system wastes a lot of money on supply recruitment which would be better spent in the classroom or on facilities. Zen has saved schools over £1m in fees and it's gratifying to hear from schools about the difference this makes to their budgets. Everyone here wants to help schools save money, and help teachers find good jobs.
Product
Inspiring mission
Nov 2020
Everyone roles up their sleeves to dive into problems that need solving. It's very collaborative and we all push each other to make sure we're getting things delivered for schools, and helping teachers and schools have as good an experience as possible.
Product
Hard working team
Nov 2020
Senior management and line managers are all very present and involved in the day to day running of things. They all want to help with things and give helpful and constructive feedback when things go well, and when they don't go so well. The new joiner experience is also excellent as you get to know senior people very quickly which avoids any awkwardness later when working together on a project.
Product
Supportive management
Nov 2020
