Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organisations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, 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:
- Make a similar business impact as our 2024 cohort of placement students: Hear from previous placement students at Box!
- You'll have been involved in driving the success of our flagship in-person and online events, such as CIOWorks Europe, BoxWorks, Content Cloud Summit and more.
- You’ll have supported the regional teams in planning, execution, and follow up of key 3rd party events
- You’ll have built relationships with EMEA sales teams to better understand their challenges and how marketing can help
- You'll have supported EMEA marketing team with the planning and rollout of our digital media strategy.
- You'll have owned and fully shape our employee advocacy program in EMEA.
…and 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 setup, 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 setup 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 for administrative tasks, creative brainstorms and other - every day is different!
Who you are
- To be eligible you must be an undergraduate student in a placement year course returning to study Autumn 2026, you also will need to have the right to work in UK already in place.
- Language skills: for this role, we are ideally looking for someone with German and/or French (in addition to English)
- Communication: you are known for building strong relationships in and outside of your core studies.
- Drive: demonstrates a level of resilience to overcome objections and have a “can do” attitude to delivering personal goals.
- Creativity: have the ability to think outside of the box and present fresh ideas.
- Attention to detail: everybody makes mistakes, even the most detail oriented employee. You will be detail oriented by nature, able to fail fast and prioritise effectively ensuring quality on sometimes tight deadlines.
- If you are studying something Marketing related it would be a plus, however from experience you don’t need a specific degree background to be successful as a placement student in box.
How do I apply?
- Submit CV
- Video Interview with a member of recruitment team
- Video Interview with the hiring manager
- Video Interview with your potential team members
Have you hired placement students before?
This year we have five placement students across Commercial Sales, SDR, Marketing, Partner Sales and GTM Ops.
Review our ratemyplacement rating here: https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/company-profile/4750/Box
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.
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.
