Associate Program Sweden
The Associate Program is a part-time, one-year program to help you advance your career in all things digital. The application period for the Associate Program 2025 opens on April 16th – sign up to get notified directly in your inbox!
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Exciting opportunity in digital sales
Who is the Associate Program for?
Our trainee program is designed for students entering their final year (MSc) who are eager to gain hands-on experience before completing their studies. We’re looking for curious and driven individuals interested in digital — whether from a technical, marketing, or design perspective — who can dedicate at least one day per week to a job engagement working at our Stockholm office or at our client's premises.
The Associate Program application period starts on April 16th and is open until May 18th.
Many of us specialise in one (or two) areas, but we share a broad curiosity for the digital space. Whether you're a developer eager to dive into analytics and marketing or a marketer with an eye for design, you'll have the freedom to explore multiple interests. We encourage you to shape your own journey within our business domain.
Want to know more about how we work? Take a look at our Culture Code.
The Associate program is a tailored program to give students a well-established foundation to kick-start a career in consulting. You'll start working part-time during your final year of studies with the ambition to be prepared for a full-time role upon graduation. You will get to learn from a bunch of skilled professionals and get hands-on experience working with real projects and clients.
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 & onboarding process
Step 1: Send in application
We ask you to submit your CV, a cover letter, and your current study transcript.
Step 2: Recruitment process
We review applications on an ongoing basis and aim to complete the process in two phases - phone & onsite interview.
Step 3: First days at work
We have an extensive onboarding process where you get to meet your colleagues, learn about the consulting profession, and get to know our clients.
Step 4: Hands-on work
You will get to work on real client projects with experienced colleagues by your side, along with a dedicated mentor to support your growth and development.
Step 5: Use your skills as a digital expert
With the experience gained from your hands-on work you are now ready to scale your efforts with clients full time!
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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.
Learn about professional growth
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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