Join Awareways

About Awareways

At Awareways, we’re on a mission to create a shift in cybersecurity by focusing on the most critical element: human behavior. We believe that a strong security culture is the ultimate defense, and we pride ourselves on our supportive, collaborative, and vibrant culture where every voice is heard.

We are a team of passionate experts, and we’re looking for someone who is excited to grow with us.

About the role

As our new Data Scientist, you will be at the very heart of our purpose-driven work. This is not a siloed role. You’ll be a key connector within our operations, working closely with all of our different teams on a wide variety of fascinating projects. You will help translate business challenges into data-driven solutions, ensuring that insights are shared and leveraged across the entire organization.

You will be joining our Data & Analytics (DNA) team to support the ever growing impact data has on our decision making. You will work with our unique datasets from psychological Culture Scans to platform engagement metrics, to build out our data infrastructure, uncover critical insights, and pioneer innovative AI solutions.

If you are a curious and passionate problem-solver who thrives in a collaborative environment, we would love to meet you.

A typical day at Awareways

Your week kicks off on Monday morning with the entire company in a big Monday morning meeting. Every team, from Development to the Program Managers, shares their key updates and successes from the previous week, setting a collaborative and motivated tone for the days ahead.

Following the all-hands meeting, you grab a coffee and huddle up with the DNA-team. Together, you review the incoming requests and the project roadmap, discussing priorities and outlining the key data tasks for the week. But before you can dive in, a Program Manager approaches you with an urgent question. A client is asking for specific insights on their latest phishing simulation results, you retrieve the data, analyze the trends, and formulate a clear, data-driven answer that the Program Manager can share with confidence.

Around midday, the office comes together for lunchtime. A communal affair where everyone gathers around the long lunch table. You join your colleagues in lively conversation as you build your own perfect lunch, whether it’s a fresh salad or a well-stacked sandwich from the fully-stocked kitchen.

The afternoon is a mix of collaboration and focused work. You head into a meeting room with members of the Learning & Development and Psychology teams for a brainstorming session. It’s a creative, open discussion around a new research idea, where you all hypothesize about potential solutions and sketch out an experimental design on the whiteboard.

Energized by the new ideas, you return to your desk for some deep-focus time. You put on your headphones and continue working on your main project, writing and refining code to enhance the data infrastructure, automate the reporting process, or build dashboards for internal or external usage.

As the day winds down, you finish your tasks, save your work. You leave the office feeling a sense of accomplishment, having contributed to client success, long-term projects, and the innovative spirit of the team.

What will you be doing

• Develop data-driven solutions: Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business and client needs into innovative data solutions, from initial concept to final implementation.
• Applied AI KnowledgeEnhance analytics & reporting: Design, build, and automate insightful dashboards and reporting processes to improve data accessibility and drive company-wide efficiency.
• Uphold data integrity: Own and implement robust data quality and governance standards to ensure all data is accurate, reliable, and secure.
• Drive AI & innovation: Proactively research, experiment with, and apply AI, machine learning, and other advanced analytical methods to solve key business challenges.

Basic requirements

• 0-2 years of relevant experience in a data-focused role. Internships and significant academic projects are highly valued.
• Available 32-40 hours per week.
• Have strong writing and communicating skills in English (required) and Dutch (nice to have).

Technical skills

• Solid programming skills in Python or R for data manipulation and automation, and analysis.
• Familiarity with version control using Git.
• (Pre) Experience with data visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI).
• (Pre) Basic proficiency in SQL for data extraction, and transformation.

Competencies (Qualifications)

• Applied AI Knowledge: A good foundational understanding of core AI and machine learning principles, not just the tools. You are genuinely motivated by the potential of the field and actively explore how emerging trends, from LLMs to NLP, can be practically applied.
• Proactive & Experimental Problem-Solver: You possess a naturally curious mindset and view challenges as learning opportunities. You enjoy taking initiative, testing hypotheses, and iteratively improving methods and models.
• Collaborative & Communicative: You are a natural team player who thrives on sharing knowledge, effectively communicating complex ideas, and working together to achieve shared goals.
• Autonomy: You are a self-starter who can take ownership of tasks and drive them forward independently, demonstrating reliability and a commitment to seeing projects through to completion.
• Positive Culture Contributor: You are a supportive and engaging colleague who actively contributes to building a fun, inclusive, and motivating team environment.

What we offer

• Room to Grow – This is a creative role with motivating challenges, and at Awareways, there’s ample space for your personal development. Our organization is dynamic, young, and growing fast, offering plenty of opportunities for professional advancement.
• Enthusiastic Team – Our diverse, multidisciplinary team includes experienced graphic specialists, passionate program managers, a full-stack development team, learning experts, and talented psychologists. Get the most out of this team and leverage their expertise to bring your narratives to life.
• Personal Development – We take your personal development seriously. We start with an external professional assessment and have regularly scheduled moments to discuss your personal growth. The more you grow, the happier we are!
• Equipment – We’ll provide you with the right gear. That’s why you’ll get a MacBook Pro along with an iPhone.
• Mobility – We’re happy to help with your commute. You’ll receive a Swapfiets bicycle for your ride to the office, and we’ll reimburse other travel expenses.
• A Healthy Office – We strive to make the office as fun and productive as possible. We enjoy a healthy communal lunch every day, celebrate the start of the weekend every Friday. We challenge you to beat everyone on the Nintendo Switch. Let’s go!
• Strategic Trip – Annually, we go on a multi-day off-site retreat to work on our vision and strategy, but mostly to enjoy drinks and some karaoke. How off-key can you sing?
• Salary – The salary for this role is between €3,000 and €4,000 gross per month (based on a 40-hour work week), depending on your relevant experience, skills, and educational background.
• Grow With Us – We value your commitment. That’s why, after one year, it’s possible to participate in our Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program.
• Time Off – You’ll receive 25 vacation days.
• For the Future – We offer a good pension plan with the option to make additional personal contributions.

Are you interested?

If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Send your CV and a brief motivation letter to remy.dijkstra@awareways.com. Let’s build a secure and data-driven future together!

About Awareways

At Awareways, we aim to tell compelling, impactful, and well-received stories. We do this for our clients, but also for our own brand. Your role will be to collaborate with our creative team and marketing team to build a strong Awareways brand narrative.

The ability to tell stories through both visuals and text is essential. We constantly strive to be the most creative player in our security awareness sector, so your strengths can directly contribute to a safer digital world.

About the role

As a Graphic Designer (M/F/X), you’ll be responsible for developing strong and impactful behavior-changing communication campaigns for our clients. You’ll bring the concept established by our Art Director to life, transforming it into a multi-year, multimedia communication campaign that resonates with everyone within an organization.

Team

You’ll be part of our internal Awareways Studio. The Studio consists of a seasoned art director, a pixel-precise digital product designer, a recently graduated junior designer, and MarCom specialists. We also regularly have interns and freelancers who provide support. Your team lead is our Business Developer, who has a background in art and graphic design.

What will you be doing

As a Graphic Designer, you’ll be responsible for creating strong and impactful behavior-changing communication campaigns for our clients. You’ll bring the concept developed by our Art Director to life, transforming it into a multi-year, multimedia communication campaign that reaches everyone within an organization.

The goal of every campaign we develop is to help people work more securely with sensitive information, protecting data and reducing cyber incidents. Our campaigns are always multimedia, incorporating digital content, print materials, games, and physical interventions. We create these campaigns for organizations with up to 200,000 employees.

Of course, you won’t develop campaigns alone. You’ll work closely with our Art Director and our experienced team of program managers, psychologists, and data analysts. Additionally, for the production of campaign materials, you’ll collaborate extensively with photographers, printers, film crews, developers, and other freelancers. You’ll maintain an overview, have an eye for detail, and know exactly what’s needed to complete a production from start to finish.

About you

Your portfolio and presentation should demonstrate that you master or aspire to the following:

• You have approximately 5 years of experience in developing communication campaigns and branding projects from start to finish at a creative (in-house) studio, or a design or advertising agency.
• You possess strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma to visualize and produce work professionally, efficiently, and with high quality.
• You are curious about input and critical of the status quo. You collaborate with colleagues to refine and enhance your work.
• You are adept at handling and incorporating feedback into your creative process.
• You are aware of the do’s and don’ts of AI and integrate AI into your creative process.
• You are familiar with the entire design cycle from briefing to delivery and have demonstrable experience in this: from presenting to final handover, from collaborating with freelancers to overseeing the print process. You are comfortable with multimedia and multilingual campaigns.
• You ideally have experience managing photo and/or video shoots (both in-studio and on-location), including preparation, execution during the shoot, image editing, and delivering specified files.
• You hold at least an Associate’s degree in design or another relevant field of study.
• You are fluent in Dutch and English, both spoken and written.
• You reside in the Netherlands and can come to our Utrecht office several times a week.

Personality Traits

• Self-Starter – In a dynamic environment with significant autonomy, you thrive as a “self-starter”; when you spot opportunities, you take initiative to leverage them.
• Proactive, Organized, and Communicative – You understand complex situations, are process-oriented, maintain an overview, and know how to engage internal stakeholders and clients in your approach. You are comfortable presenting your ideas.
• Storyteller and Pixel-Perfect – You combine your (graphic) experience and skills with information from briefings and insights from our scientific colleagues. This allows you, alongside our Art Director, to create unique, engaging, and impactful campaigns that draw the viewer into the narrative. - During production, you never lose sight of quality or deadlines.
• Flexible – You can seamlessly switch between various types of assignments, from small to large, and from internal projects to client work.
• Plus Points (Preferred) – Experience with behavior change campaigns, marketing, photography, digital, and/or motion design.

What we offer

• Room to Grow – This is a creative role with motivating challenges, and at Awareways, there’s ample space for your personal development. Our organization is dynamic, young, and growing fast, offering plenty of opportunities for professional advancement.
• Enthusiastic Team – Our diverse, multidisciplinary team includes experienced graphic specialists, passionate program managers, a full-stack development team, learning experts, and talented psychologists. Get the most out of this team and leverage their expertise to bring your narratives to life.
• Personal Development – We take your personal development seriously. We start with an external professional assessment and have regularly scheduled moments to discuss your personal growth. The more you grow, the happier we are!
• Equipment – We’ll provide you with the right gear. That’s why you’ll get a MacBook Pro along with an iPhone.
• Mobility – We’re happy to help with your commute. You’ll receive a Swapfiets bicycle for your ride to the office, and we’ll reimburse other travel expenses.
• A Healthy Office – We strive to make the office as fun and productive as possible. We enjoy a healthy communal lunch every day, celebrate the start of the weekend every Friday. We challenge you to beat everyone on the Nintendo Switch. Let’s go!
• Strategic Trip – Annually, we go on a multi-day off-site retreat to work on our vision and strategy, but mostly to enjoy drinks and some karaoke. How off-key can you sing?
• Salary – Your salary will be determined based on your experience.
• Grow With Us – We value your commitment. That’s why, after one year, it’s possible to participate in our Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program.
• Time Off – You’ll receive 25 vacation days.
• For the Future – We offer a good pension plan with the option to make additional personal contributions.

Are you interested?

Intrigued? Send your cover letter and CV to Leon at leon@awareways.com, mentioning “Graphic Designer Vacancy” in the subject line.

About Awareways

Awareways approaches security and privacy awareness from a psychological, marketing, and communication perspective with the goal of changing behavior and culture. We assist our clients in establishing an overarching strategy so that employees become the strongest link in their organization’s security chain. We do this in an energetic and creative way. For more information, visit www.awareways.com.

At Awareways, we value diversity and continually strive to create an organization where everyone feels at home. As such, we are looking for people of diverse backgrounds and experiences (M/F/X) to form a strong and united team.

About the role

Do you have an interest in understanding how human behavior works and how it can be changed? Do you want to contribute to a secure society in an innovative and creative way? Are you organized and thrive on variety in your daily work? Then a role as a program manager at Awareways is the perfect fit for you!

Due to rapid growth, we are looking for a new program manager to join our team. Our friendly team of program managers consists of young professionals from diverse backgrounds, including communication, psychology, marketing, and filmmaking.

A typical day at Awareways

Start off your day: Around 9 o’clock you arrive at the office. You grab a cup of coffee and briefly chat with some colleagues. Then you prepare for a meeting with a new client. It’s an international company that wants to start using phishing simulations and the Hacker Duel, and that needs to apply to all their employees around the world. You promise to create a plan of action that you will discuss at the next meeting. You call a colleague to briefly spar about this.

Next up is a customised text for another client for our e-learning platform. You can use your creativity to make information security topics as interesting and relevant as possible for this specific organization. The client is a hospital, so the employees work with sensitive information on a daily basis. You have to come up with cases that the healthcare staff will recognize and in which security or privacy issues are dealt with. You have to dive right in here, but you like the fact that you can improve information safety in healthcare in this way.

Lunch: It’s lunchtime! Here it is just a half-hour log out. Every day a colleague makes a salad and catches up on all the developments at work and in the world. You finish your lunch with a walk around the block.

Noon: The sales manager calls you asking you to help think about a potential client’s request. They would like a training special on a specific topic, for which our current platform needs to be converted. How this should be done is still the question. You decide to schedule a brainstorming session with the programmer and the sales manager to come up with a suitable solution.

After calling your colleague, you start preparing for a presentation later in the week. The client in question has invited the entire team for an update on the program when it comes to participation and next steps…. You want to come up with a format for this consultation that resonates with the client and where you can clearly inform all attendees about the prerequisites for success, but also get input back on open issues.

After you come up with an outline, you have one final meeting. You are in a project group for new software development and in this meeting you will think about new functionalities of the software. End of the day! You close your laptop and clean up your desk

What will you be doing

• Maintaining overview and planning;
• Formulating strategies and keeping them focused;
• Setting priorities;
• Working in a result-oriented and customer-focused manner, not hesitating to provide constructive feedback;
• Building relationships with clients and instilling a sense of trust.

About you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree level, preferably in communication science/psychology/(commercial) business administration/social sciences.
• Ideally, 1 – 5 years of experience in a similar role as a program manager/project manager or experience within a security and/or privacy team.
• Proficiency in both Dutch and English, both spoken and written.
• Ideally, you have a project management methodology certificate (e.g., PRINCE2) – but not a requirement.

What we offer

• Room to Grow – This is a creative role with motivating challenges, and at Awareways, there’s ample space for your personal development. Our organization is dynamic, young, and growing fast, offering plenty of opportunities for professional advancement.
• Enthusiastic Team – Our diverse, multidisciplinary team includes experienced graphic specialists, passionate program managers, a full-stack development team, learning experts, and talented psychologists. Get the most out of this team and leverage their expertise to bring your narratives to life.
• Personal Development – We take your personal development seriously. We start with an external professional assessment and have regularly scheduled moments to discuss your personal growth. The more you grow, the happier we are!
• Equipment – We’ll provide you with the right gear. That’s why you’ll get a MacBook Pro along with an iPhone.
• Mobility – We’re happy to help with your commute. You’ll receive a Swapfiets bicycle for your ride to the office, and we’ll reimburse other travel expenses.
• A Healthy Office – We strive to make the office as fun and productive as possible. We enjoy a healthy communal lunch every day, celebrate the start of the weekend every Friday. We challenge you to beat everyone on the Nintendo Switch. Let’s go!
• Strategic Trip – Annually, we go on a multi-day off-site retreat to work on our vision and strategy, but mostly to enjoy drinks and some karaoke. How off-key can you sing?
• Salary – Your salary will be determined based on your experience.
• Grow With Us – We value your commitment. That’s why, after one year, it’s possible to participate in our Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program.
• Time Off – You’ll receive 25 vacation days.
• For the Future – We offer a good pension plan with the option to make additional personal contributions.

Are you interested?

Are you interested in this position? Please email your covering letter, portfolio and resume to hannah@awareways.com with the subject line ‘Program Manager’. We look forward to hearing from you!

About Awareways

Humans are increasingly proving to be the weakest link in the security chain. Hackers rely on individuals being unaware of the true value of the information they possess. Furthermore, technology often isn’t used securely. Unlike concrete technical interventions, changing human behavior presents a significant challenge for many organizations.

Precisely because of this, people can make all the difference. Make your employees aware of the value and vulnerability of the information they handle daily. Awareways approaches this challenge from the perspective of psychology and communication sciences. We don’t focus on learning rigid rules, but on recognizing risky situations. Let’s activate your human firewall.

About the role

Awareways is looking for a team player to support our program managers with their daily tasks here in our office (minimum 16 hours per week). This role involves creating reports, customizing our learning modules with client-specific input and requests, reviewing content and print materials, and, of course, joining us for our enjoyable team lunches and social gatherings!

A typical day at Awareways according to our other project support students

“As a Project Support student, you’ll proactively assist your colleagues. Throughout the day, you’ll take on diverse tasks from our program managers, such as creating client-specific reports, developing new question series, or customizing new training programs. You’ll also be involved in reviewing content and print materials.”

“You’ll thrive in our dynamic company, tackling a wide variety of tasks. You might work on a report in the morning, prepare a presentation for a colleague in the afternoon, and then shift gears to your own project.”

“Camaraderie is a key part of working at Awareways. Our informal atmosphere, shared lunches, coffee breaks, and regular social gatherings ensure you’ll quickly feel at home in our young and dynamic team. During lunches, coffee chats by the machine, our popular afternoon walks and fun squad events, you’ll get to know your colleagues in a relaxed, informal setting.”

About you

• Available at least 16 hours per week
• Passion for security and/or privacy
• Proactive and eager for personal and professional growth
• Enjoys sharing insights with colleagues on the latest developments you observe in security and privacy

Currently pursuing or recently completed studies in fields such as:

• Homeland Security / Integrated Security Studies
• Business Administration
• Computer Science / Information Technology
• Communications
• Educational Sciences
• Psychology
• Security Management

What we offer

• Room to Grow – Working in an office environment where you can get experience in a varied student job with flexible hours.
• Enthusiastic Team – Our diverse, multidisciplinary team includes experienced graphic specialists, passionate program managers, a full-stack development team, learning experts, and talented psychologists. Get the most out of this team and leverage their expertise to bring your narratives to life.
• Personal Development – We take your personal development seriously. The more you grow, the happier we are!
• A Healthy Office – We strive to make the office as fun and productive as possible. We enjoy a healthy communal lunch every day, celebrate the start of the weekend every Friday. We challenge you to beat everyone on the Nintendo Switch. Let’s go!
• Salary – 16 euros per hour excluding holiday allowance.

Are you interested?

Let us know! Send an email to jeroen.koppe@awareways.com. For more information about our services, feel free to explore our website at www.awareways.com.