Associate Program
The Associate Program is a full-time, extended summer job. Applications for the Associate Program 2025 are now closed. If you'd like to be notified when applications open for 2026, you can sign up for updates today.
Sign up for updatesThe Associate Program is a full-time, extended summer job in which you'll get to start working part-time already in the spring. You'll get to learn from a bunch of skilled professionals who don't take themselves too seriously. Master the secrets of digital commerce while having a good time with your fellow Roadies!
Associate Program
Exciting opportunities in digital sales
The Associate Program allows you to kickstart your career in digital sales. Usually, we're looking for associates in different fields, such as sales, development, and marketing technology. However, even though the positions might seem quite clear-cut, we're not looking to box people into set roles.
Most of us may have one (or two) deeper expertise areas, but we all are interested in the wide variety of our work. If you're a developer looking to learn more about analytics and marketing or a marketer with a designer's toolbox, you’ll get the chance to work towards it. Every Roadie is free to explore multiple interests within our business domain. If you’d like to learn more about our way of doing things, have a look at our Culture Code.
Software Developer Associate
As a Software Developer Associate, you are interested in what happens under the hood of modern digital sales channels. You are business-minded and have some professional experience in software development. In this role, you will help businesses grow, while you grow your career with the support of our community.
Marketing Technology Associate
As a Marketing Technology Associate, you are excited about digital sales and interested in results-oriented marketing. In this role you will get to work at the core of our clients’ businesses; advising, designing and implementing the tech needed to drive the business forward. Your projects might be ranging from marketing automation activities to setting up analytics and tagging frameworks or optimising clients’ digital campaigns.
Sales Associate
As a Sales Associate, you’ll combine your knowledge of digital sales and business development to discover new opportunities. Your role will involve acquiring potential customers and nurturing existing accounts, helping companies reach their potential in digital sales. Learn the ropes of B2B sales with our supportive community!
Application deadline
The application period for the 2025 Associate Program opens on October 21st 2024, and closes on November 24th 2024.
Start date
Your start date can be discussed based on your needs, but ideally, you would kick things off already in the spring.
Work time
Part-time already before summer and full-time during summer.
Continuation
After summer, if expectations have been met from both ends, you can continue part-time while you finish your studies (or full-time if you're graduating).
Process
Recruitment process
Step 1: First selections
After submitting your application you can expect to hear from us regarding the first selection soon after the application period has closed. The recruitment process for selected candidates consists of two phases: the video phase and the interview phase, and we'll keep you updated on the status of your application at each stage.
Step 2: Video question
Selected candidates receive a short video clip where one of our recruiters asks you one or two questions. Please makes sure to record your answers as a video clip and send it to us. The maximum length is just a few minutes, and it's enough to use your phone to record the clip. It's about how you answer and how you present yourself; no studio setup is necessary.
Step 3: Interview
Based on the video phase, we'll select the best candidates for on-site interviews (remote also possible). You'll meet two of us and discuss your past experience and skills, as well as your expectations and any questions about CR you may have. We'll usually ask you to present one of your previous projects, especially if you're applying for the development role.
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About Columbia Road
Selected highlights about us as a company
The Culture Code
Get to know us, the Roadies, and Columbia Road in this culture book. We wrote it ourselves as a team, and it's about how we see, feel, and live Columbia Road's culture, values, and mission — and everyday life on the Road.
Culture Code
Learning and training
An accelerated learning curve characterises the first years of any career. To support you on this journey, we have created a purpose-built training schedule for our associates complemented by regular mentoring sessions. Most of the real learning still happens within the projects you work on, and we’re prepared to give you lots of responsibility and support from more experienced Roadies so that you can make the most of it.
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Good Impact Program
An open source and social impact program supporting free time contributions for social good. We pay 15€/hour on top of regular salary for employees’ free time contributions to societally and environmentally positive causes where they get to use their professional skills.
Learn moreThe perks
See careers pageWhen we succeed, everyone gets awarded equally. We value long-term impact over quick wins, and joint effort over individual contributions. All Roadies have the possibility to become share-owners of the company.
We offer comprehensive health and wellness services to all of our employees, including mental wellbeing and sports benefits. Depending on your location we are also able to offer dental services.
You have a wide variety of quality tools (laptop and other IT equipment) to use for your work. We also provide a phone plan.
Our insurances cover you at work and your free time. Depending on your location this also includes travel during free-time. We encourage Roadies to take parental leave and give them the ability to decide on when to use their holidays.
Good Impact Program, an open-source and social impact program sponsored by Columbia Road, allows our people to do good by contributing to initiatives that are close to their hearts and minds - and get compensated for it.
We have established learning and mentoring programs and frameworks to support our Roadies' professional growth. In addition, every Roadie gets a credit card they can use for professional learning. Books, courses, events, certifications - whatever you need.
We want our employees to be able to focus on what is important. That's why we have various benefits (for example commuting, healthy snacks, and breakfasts) that make our employees' everyday life easier and smoother.
Depending on your location we have more additional benefits at your perusal. Please ask more during your interviews!
The Culture Code
Get to know us, the Roadies, and Columbia Road in this culture book. We wrote it as a team, and it's about how we see, feel, and live Columbia Road's culture, values, and mission — and everyday life on the Road.
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