Senior Venture Associate at United Media

United Media; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

United Media in London is seeking a Senior Venture Associate to join our entrepreneurial team at the HQ near Victoria Station. You will take on significant responsibility and help drive growth in a fast-paced environment.

We value ambition, leadership, and exceptional communication. Expect to work in person from our London office with no remote option, and opportunities to travel to conferences and grow with the company.

Qualifications

• Experience in business management and startup environments is valued.
• Strong leadership and people-development abilities are essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Well-organised with ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Think progressively about delivering on our core mission through different products.
• Inspire, lead and develop A+ teams to reach their full potential and deliver 7-star experiences to our network.
• Strengthen our brand in the global market.
• Identify and drive synergies across business functions.
• Dream big and pursue it relentlessly.

Skills

Business management

Leadership

Communication

Organization

Job description

Do you thrive in a fast‑paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Senior Venture Associate.

About us

United Media (https://www.united-media.com/) focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc.

What we offer you

As our Senior Venture Associate you get the unique opportunity of being a key driver of our exponential growth curve. You’ll be working in‑person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone.

To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• Opportunity of having a real impact – you’ll be getting operational experience in a start‑up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
• Inspiration and guidance – a chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
• Unlimited growth potential in our company – we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
• Travel opportunity: you would be joining our conferences overseas.
• Invaluable transferable skills – boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.

Your Responsibilities

Responsibilities in this job will be defined as we work together throughout the recruitment process however, they will be mostly centred around:

• Thinking progressively about how we can deliver on our core mission through different products.
• Inspiring, leading and developing A+ teams to reach their full potential and deliver 7‑star experiences to our network.
• Strengthening our brand in the global market.
• Identifying and driving synergies across business functions.
• To dream big and pursue it relentlessly!

What we expect from you

We are looking for experienced business managers to help us reach our objectives. Industry experience is not a requirement, but you do need to be highly ambitious, forward‑thinking and driven to inspire and lead our team. Furthermore, having a UK work permit is also a requirement.

Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:

• Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do.
• Possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency.
• Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments.
• Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations.
• Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing.
• Are well‑organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.

Start date

Flexible

Monday – Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work.