Encode Graduate Scheme

About the role 🔭

• The Encode Graduate Scheme offers a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of the different departments (ProgOps, Marketing, Talent and BizOps) within Encode, a global educational community in Emerging Tech. This job involves hard work, and long hours, but is rewarding in terms of compensation, upside, personal growth, teamwork and responsibility.
• It is designed for students who are graduating this academic year (2023/24), as well as recent graduates who may be unsure of what they want to do, but are keen to enter a fast-paced, collaborative environment in the growing Emerging Tech space.
• Our Graduate Scheme is atypical for a startup of our size. We have a very clear idea of what we want from hires and believe we can teach those people quickly through responsibility and developing a broad skill-set.
• We also recognise that most graduates may not know what they want to specialise in at the start or, even if they do, preconceptions of a role varies significantly with the reality at a company. As such, we give all the benefits of working at a startup (fast-pace, responsibility, ambitious culture) whilst giving the flexibility of a corporate graduate scheme (foundational training, trying different things, being part of a cohort). We hire all year round for the Graduate Scheme with a cluster around the summer/autumn. There is no fixed start date. We hire for immediate or post-graduation start.
• The grad scheme lasts 6 months, during which you will have the opportunity to work in 3-4  different teams. After this, you can choose the department you want to join based on your first-hand experience and what suits you best.

Responsibilities ✍️

You will sit with each department for 1.5 months each:

• Programme Operations runs Encode’s events, including hackathons, bootcamps, accelerators and courses. This team facilitates finding and bringing talented people through Encode, who can then start companies and get jobs in Emerging Tech, leading educational events and coordinating with clients
• Marketing is responsible for bringing new people into our community, creating content, coming up with new ideas to grow our reach and coordinating with clients.
• Business Operations supports all outward-facing Encode opportunities including partnerships, sales, in-person events and other external activities.
• Talent helps place the great people who finish Encode’s programmes into awesome jobs, facilitating their Emerging Tech development!

After 6 months you’ll be asked to specialise in one area

About you 👤

• A student graduating this academic year (2023/24), a recent graduate, or a person early in their career (we actively don’t ask for work experience, we’ll teach you everything you need to know)
• Strong academic performance: We expect an upper 2:1 from applicants (predicted/achieved).
• Clear social ability and people skills, demonstrably from team-based activities or/and leadership. You should be very comfortable/thrive when talking to others.
• Evidence of atypical achievement away from Undergraduate Degree. Examples include extra-curricular activities, sports, arts, post-graduate study, research, projects, side-hustles, jobs whilst studying, general life experience.
• Clear motivation for the role/company/industry/startups. We expect successful candidates to have a demonstrable and convincing reason for wanting to work for this type of company, this industry, this company's mission and this role.

Our benefits include ✨

• £35-45k
• Apple laptop, microphone and streamer-level camera!
• Opportunity to travel around the world to our in-person events
• 25 days holiday
• Pension
• Given responsibility from day 1
• Being part of a fast-growing company and team

About Encode 🚀

• Founded in 2020, Encode Club has since scaled to a team of 20 operating in London and Zagreb. Our mission is to educate and advance careers in Emerging Tech. We fundraised in early 2022 to help achieve our vision (as seen here in Techcrunch!)
• We are a lean, hungry and hard-working team that give responsibility early and rewards fast. We work together closely and cross-functionally, priding ourselves on meaningful results whilst impacting the growth of people and companies.

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Application Process 🖇️

This process takes 2-3 weeks approximately.

1. ✍️ Online application
2. ⚡️ 30-minute initial interview with member of leadership
3. 💥 30-minute 2nd interview with CEO
4. 🐝 30-minute 3rd interview with Head of Research and Operations.
5. 🪐 Written take-home case study
6. 💃 Final 1-hour in-person interview in London (expenses covered)