Marketing Manager - University Partnerships

£50,000 📋 Marketing 🏬 University Partnerships

Location: Hybrid (2 / 3 days in the office)

native has been building for 10 years, but we're still very much a startup: fast-moving, ambitious, and building with intent. We’re an AI-driven student engagement platform that connects students, Students’ Unions, universities, and advertisers through a managed marketplace. With our model proven in the UK, we’re expanding into the US.

The timing matters. Campus teams are under pressure: budgets are tighter, retention is a growing focus, and expectations to evidence engagement are rising. At the same time, brands are demanding clearer outcomes and more accountable routes to students.

native sits at the intersection of these needs. We help campus partners increase student engagement and make better decisions, whilst also securing sustainable funding. For advertisers, we deliver meaningful, measurable access to student audiences. When these incentives are aligned, engagement improves, funding becomes more resilient, and the model scales. That’s what we’re building now - and why this role matters.

The Opportunity

This role exists to enable partner acquisition and drive adoption of native’s campus offering through a field-led, relationship-based GTM motion.

In the UK, we already know what works. We’re continuing to invest in our product to help campus partners improve engagement and student outcomes, and this role plays a key part in ensuring those tools are trusted, adopted, and actively used by Students’ Unions.

That same approach is then taken into the US in a more streamlined form. Our offering is lighter weight, but the fundamentals remain the same: showing up in the right places, building credibility, and landing the meetings that lead to new partnerships.

The UK is the blueprint, which you’ll adapt thoughtfully for the US.

You’ll manage one direct report and remain very hands on. This is a delivery-focused role, where you’ll design, run, and refine the programs yourself.

What you’ll be working on

• Own campus adoption and utilisation - Build trust and drive active use of native’s products across UK Students’ Union partners, helping teams understand the value and get real benefit from what we’re building.

What we’re looking for

• Have experience in education or edtech and understand how campus organisations actually make decisions and what earns trust in those environments.

If you care about building something that matters, enjoy operating at pace, and like being close to the work as well as the outcomes, you’ll thrive here.

Whats in it for you

💰 Base Salary: £50,000

🏡 Remote-first role in the UK

🏫 Pension contributions of 5%

🏖️ 25 days off (excluding bank holidays)

🎂 Day off on your birthday

📈 Share Options for all

👨🏽 💻 Work from home set-up budget

🚂 Season Ticket Loan Scheme

👶 Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are actively creating an equitable environment for everyone at native to thrive.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at native. At native, we embrace diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.