Goodlord

First Year Undergraduate,BA Music,Remote Working

Work Projects

Goodlord offers an end-end software that allows letting agents to manage the whole pre-tenancy process in one cloud-based platform. Within this platform additional products and services are sold to both letting agents, landlords and tenants. During my internship I worked on developing Goodlord's tenant offers business area. I was assigned a line manager (the head of tenancy services) who I had daily meetings with, I also had weekly meetings with the people team, and finally weekly meetings with a buddy who was an Oxford alumni.

At the beginning of the internship my manager and I created goals for the internship in order to monitor my performance. My key achievements were that I identified and formed partnership with AnyVan which is forecasted to generate circa 13k yearly revenue, operationalised automated marketing emails which is forecasted to generate circa 32k yearly revenue, tripled Goodlord affiliate commission rate with business partner AnyVan, designed and executed A/B email marketing test sent to 60k people involving 7 external partners, analysed and collated data from marketing test to identify tenant offers with greatest commercial opportunity, Led presentations to both partners and SMT receiving excellent feedback from the CEO & Head of Finance and I organised a cross-team shuffleboarding social with a £450 budget. I exceeded targets, achieving 112% score in internship performance review and receiving return offer.

Daily Life

I had a daily stand-up at 9:15am followed by a short meeting with my manager to discuss anything I wanted, from my projects to personal development and more. The rest of the day would usually have a few other meetings alongside company events called lunch and learns, or virtual coffees with different people in the business. I spent the time between meetings working on my project. Remote working made it easy for me to continue practicing piano for 4 hours a day and I found this helped me unwind.

Lasting Impressions

An amazing experience which will undoubtedly shape my future career. I now definitely know that I would prefer to work for a small/medium sized organisation with a flat

structure, at least in the near future. I am also considering going into tech as a career much more seriously now.

Second Year Undergraduate,BA Economics and Management,Remote Working

Work Projects

I was responsible for the automation of a number of processes, mostly the visualisation of public tenancy data, the visualisation of private agent data and the segmenting and contact of tenants for the purposes of marketing emails. I was able to do these to great success and lay the groundwork for systems that can be built upon as new use cases come up and fortunately got them working with no hiccups.

Daily Life

Generally speaking, I would get up for breakfast and sit in for my morning meeting where the team outlined what they would get up to for the day. I found they were very flexible with how I went about my working day, provided I could meet my deadlines (which I did manage) and this greatly enhanced my experience.

Lasting Impressions

I really enjoyed it. It was my first experience programming and I found that it is in fact something that I really enjoy and might even pursue in the future.