Marketing Placement Student, London, UK (French/German speaking)

Box; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is looking for a Marketing Placement Student for a 12-month placement in London starting July 2026. You will support event planning, develop marketing strategies, and collaborate with sales teams. Ideal candidates will be undergraduate students returning to studies in Autumn 2027 and ideally speak German and/or French. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, vacation days, and a subsidized gym membership.

Benefits

Pension coverage

Medical and dental coverage

25 days of vacation

Subsidized gym membership

Daily free lunch and snacks

Qualifications

• Must be returning to study Autumn 2027.
• Right to work in the UK is required.
• Studying Marketing-related subjects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support with the setup and execution of key events.
• Work closely with marketing teams to devise and execute marketing plans.
• Drive the EMEA social advocacy program.

Skills

Relationship building

Resilience

Creative thinking

Detail-oriented

German language proficiency

French language proficiency

Education

Undergraduate student in a placement year course

Job description

Marketing Placement Student, London, UK (French/German speaking)

London

12 month work placement as part of degree | Central London based (Old Street) | July 2026 start date | £27,500 per annum.

WHAT IS BOX?

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Imagine you have just completed your 12 month placement with Box, what have you achieved? Well if you join Box in the Marketing team, here are a few things:

• Driving the success of our flagship in‑person and online events, such as CIOWorks Europe, BoxWorks, Content Cloud Summit and more.
• Supporting the regional teams in planning, execution, and follow‑up of key third‑party events.
• Building relationships with EMEA sales teams to better understand their challenges and how marketing can help.
• Supporting EMEA marketing team with the planning and rollout of our digital media strategy.
• Owning and fully shaping our employee advocacy program in EMEA.
• Being based in our EMEA HQ you will get to experience first‑hand how a high‑growth cloud SaaS technology company works (and have some fun along the way!).

What does a Marketing Placement Student actually do?

You will work alongside the regional, partner, and performance marketing teams to devise and execute on marketing plans that make a real business impact to the wider GTM (go-to‑market) organisation. You will get exposure to different aspects of marketing: from content creation, social media advocacy, and digital marketing to sales alignment, event organisation, and more.

What does that mean day to day?

• Support with the set‑up, execution and follow‑up on key first‑ and third‑party events.
• Work closely with Regional Marketing Managers across Northern Europe, DACH and France to understand sales’ teams challenges and help translate them into effective marketing campaigns.
• Support Partner Marketing team with executing joint campaigns with some of our key partners.
• Support with the set‑up and execution of our digital media activities, including coordinating ad creation, setting up correct tracking and reporting to the EMEA team on the success of these tactics.
• Drive the EMEA social advocacy program: set up and review content in our advocacy tool, attend quarterly calls with our success managers and communicate the importance of the program to the wider sales teams.
• Coordinate landing page builds, email marketing campaigns and webinar production, working closely with the Marketing Operations team.
• Become the team go‑to person to support administrative tasks, creative brainstorms and other – every day is different!

WHO YOU ARE

• Must be an undergraduate student in a placement year course returning to study Autumn 2027 and have the right to work in the UK already in place.
• Ideally speaks German and/or French (in addition to English).
• Known for building strong relationships in and outside of your core studies.
• Demonstrates resilience to overcome objections and has a “can‑do” attitude to delivering personal goals.
• Creative thinker who can present fresh ideas.
• Detail‑oriented, able to fail fast and prioritise effectively, ensuring quality on tight deadlines.
• Studying something Marketing related is a plus, but a specific degree background is not required.

Video Interview with a member of recruitment team

Video Interview with the hiring manager

Video Interview with your potential team members

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation.

Benefits

Box benefits package includes pension, medical and dental coverage. We have a robust wellness program including 25 days of vacation (plus your birthday off!) and subsidised gym membership. There is such a thing as a free lunch, you can order from a daily menu along with lots of snacks and drinks. EMEA HQ office is located in the impressive White Collar Factory on Old Street; www.whitecollarfactory.com and other European offices in Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, and Warsaw.