Ready for a change?
Have a look at our current vacancies and see if any float your shipping vessel. Or, if you think you might just be the best thing since sliced Slimcea, pop us an email and we might bypass the formalities just for you.
Current vacancies
Internships
As co-founders of the UNLOCKED Internship Programme, we aim to help kickstart opportunities for underrepresented emerging talent, looking to get their break in the UK’s creative industries. Every year we offer paid internship opportunities from July to September.
Details and application information
If you're good, we'll make you better
We want to work with the best talent in the market regardless of gender, identity, ethnicity, culture, age, neurodiversity or disability – after all, good work depends on different experiences and perspectives.
Our people are very important to us. We'd be scuppered without them. So, to help them develop and grow, we make sure we offer a training programme from day one. Our Union Academies, external training and IPA professional qualifications, access to industry events and mentoring opportunities are the perfect platforms to get you started and keep you moving onwards and upwards.
The big, juicy carrots
You’ll get to work with nice, talented people for clients in both the private and public sectors. That should be enough to get you salivating. If not, here are some other metaphorical, orange-hued, root vegetables.
Pension plan with employer contributions
Above minimum employer contributions, and flexibility to top up your pension pot.
We’ve got you covered
Our Death in Service and Income Protection cover is there for you and your loved ones in the unlikely event you’d need it.
Flexible working options
Home, office, submarine (must have wifi)...we accommodate flexible working options to suit our business and suit you.
Happy holidays
The Government says that employers only have to give a stingy 28 days’ annual leave for full-time workers including public holidays. We say you start on 32 days annual leave. We also say you get an additional half day for your birthday. You’ll get extra days for your loyalty too, taking you up to 37.5 days’ leave in total after five years. If you want even more time off, we offer a holiday buy-back scheme.
Bike2work scheme
We’ll help you get up to 50% of the cost of a bike through the Government’s scheme. We also have our very own shed, and you'll get your very own key for said shed. (And we have shower facilities, in case you’ve been up a lot of hills.)
Industry membership and training
NABS is our industry charity. Our membership gives you access to mental health advice and support. Our other industry memberships (IPA, Marketing Society, Chamber of Commerce, IPM, DMA) are there for your training and development.
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
To support you, your partner and your family, we always deliver.
Regular social events
Parties, quizzes and fizzes. Lots of them.
Beautiful offices
Union House is a prestigious, historic, welcoming, dog friendly office space, next to Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden.
Make a Difference day
A company paid-for day so you can support a local charity or community initiative important to you.
Group opportunities
If you'd like to learn some new skills or even swap departments within the Union Group, then we can make that happen.
See the world
Through our Worldwide Partners network we have an exchange scheme where we’ll support you to experience working in another agency, in another country. USA today, Tokyo tomorrow?
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Our values
These are the precious wee things that guide how we work, how we treat others and each other. They bind us together, help us be successful and make what we do, well, fun.
Health and wellbeing
Kirsty Wilkie is our Talent Manager, and she 100% focused on providing support, advice and promoting the importance of health and wellbeing in the workplace. Kirsty will welcome you during your onboarding and keep you on track with a plethora of useful guides and handbooks.
We are proud to have a formal Mental Health process and five externally trained Mental Health first aiders. After all, you can't do top work if you don't make supporting your staff a top priority.
In recognition of our agency supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our people. we have been awarded the IPA People First Promise badge of honour.
The good egg
Every month we reward a colleague who has shone bright like a diamond. They have their name etched into Union history and get a wee voucher too.
Letting our hair down
Parties are a long-standing tradition chez Union. No matter where they start, they usually end at Fingers nightclub or in the neighbour’s swimming pool.
For the sake of cake
We encourage all our resident bakers and cakers to show what they can do. It’s important to do our bit for local charities and dentists.
