Events Marketing Executive, Zen Educate
£30-40k
Junior and Mid level
London
4 days a week in office (Oval, London)
Education recruitment platform
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Education recruitment platform
201-500 employees
B2BMarketplaceEducationRecruitment
Be an early applicant
£30-40k
Junior and Mid level
London
4 days a week in office (Oval, London)
201-500 employees
B2BMarketplaceEducationRecruitment
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Role
Who you are
- Execution is everything. I value people who take ownership. You should be the kind of person who sees a problem and fixes it before anyone else notices, staying structured and thoughtful while moving at pace
- Radical Organisation. Events have a thousand moving parts. You need to be someone who lives for a checklist and finds peace in a well-managed project plan
- A Roll up the sleeves attitude. No task is too small if it makes the event a success. You are as comfortable discussing strategy as you are packing event boxes or chasing guest speakers
- Hunger to Grow. This is a Junior IC role with a massive ceiling. I value curiosity and a desire to solve problems rather than just identifying them
- You believe execution > theory: you’re a doer who loves getting things across the finish line
- You are scary organised: you have a system for everything and never let a detail slip through the cracks
- You genuinely love the energy of events and people
- You are a problem solver who doesn’t get flustered when things change fast
- You care about working at a company where the work actually matters
- If you love the thrill of seeing a plan come to life and want to play a key role in a mission-driven company, I’d love to hear from you
- If you read all of the above and are excited (maybe even a little nervous) about the opportunity and how we work then I recommend applying now! If you skipped or skimmed the above, feel free to apply anyway but you’re missing a bunch of useful information that could streamline the process for you
What the job involves
- Hi, I’m Ahmed, VP of Marketing at Zen Educate. I’m looking for an ambitious, high-energy Events Marketing Executive to help us build our events engine from the ground up
- I need someone who isn't just looking for a job, but someone who is hungry to learn, obsessed with organisation, and ready to turn events into one of our biggest growth channels
- This isn’t a role where you’ll just be checking badges at a desk. This is about helping us scale
- We want to be at every important conference in the UK and host our own bespoke events that clients talk about for months
- You’ll be working directly with me to execute a strategy that will 5x our event volume and impact
- You’ll be the bridge between our marketing vision and our sales leaders across 10 UK regions
- That means you need to be comfortable communicating with different stakeholders, coordinating their needs, and ensuring that when we show up, we show up perfectly
- Here’s the kind of work you’ll lead:
- Coordinate and Collaborate:
- Act as a point of contact for sales leaders across 10 UK regions to help coordinate the local events they want to organise
- Manage the invite-to-attendance funnel, driving client interest and making sure the room is full of the right people
- Support the broader marketing team to ensure event branding and messaging are top-tier
- Execute with Precision:
- Handle the end-to-end logistics: from venue sourcing and catering to shipping kit and managing guest lists
- Ensure every event goes off without a hitch through meticulous preparation and on-site support
- Help us 5x our event output, moving from a few key dates to a consistent, high-frequency engine of activity
- Help Build the Foundation:
- Work with the senior manager to execute our national events strategy
- Help create the playbook for how Zen Educate shows up at conferences and hosts private events
- Identify high-impact guest speakers and help manage those relationships
- Why this role is unique:
- Ground Floor Opportunity: You’ll be part of the core team building this channel from scratch. Your fingerprints will be all over our events strategy
- High Visibility: You’ll work across marketing and sales teams in 10 different regions, giving you a unique bird's-eye view of how a high-growth business operates
- Huge Growth Potential: As this becomes one of our biggest marketing channels, the opportunities for you to grow in seniority and responsibility are massive
- Mission-Driven: You’ll play a critical role in helping us support more schools and educators, ensuring children get the best possible education
Application process
- We believe in moving fast and respecting your time. Our interview process is broken down into 3 stages, with all interviews in a given stage scheduled simultaneously. Once all interviews in a stage are complete, we aim to get back to you within 36 hours
- Stage 1:
- Recruiter call: to check you’re human, can communicate clearly, and cover some of the basics like compensation, benefits, and availability
- Stage 2:
- Intro call with me: I’ll be wanting to dig into your previous experience in lifecycle and understand how you think and approach, and role and the problems you will face
- Business context interview: You’ll speak with a senior leader team to explore your understanding of collaboration and lifecycle marketing in a two-sided marketplace and how you'd approach our challenges
- Stage 3:
- Task and review: I’ll send over a short event focussed task for you to complete at home. You’ll then talk it through with me and one of our team leads, explaining your thinking and approach
- Cultural Interview: You’ll meet more of the team and discuss what motivates you and the culture at Zen
Salary benchmarks
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.
On top of this, the company has also raised significant funding to support acquisitions in the UK and the US, plus the expansion of its operations and offering.
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Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2025
$17.7m
SERIES B
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.9m
Company benefits
- Macbook and tech equipment provided
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Investment in your professional development
- Regular socials
- Ownership in the company
- Pension scheme
- 25 days of holidays + all UK public holidays off
- Central London dog-friendly office with perks like fresh fruit, bike parking, showers, and an on-site gym and café
- Life insurance
- Vitality health insurance and benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
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
Company HQ
HQ, London
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Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer)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
- 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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