Our Berlin benefits include:

Health and wellbeing

  • 25 days’ annual leave, plus one day for each year of service, up to 30 days in total.
  • Special conditions on your private health insurance.
  • Adjustable desks for those who need to alternate between sitting and standing.
  • Free evening meal if you need to work to 8pm or later.
  • Employee assistance programme (EAP), through LifeWorks.
  • Professional mental health coach if you need to talk with someone in confidence.
  • Free access to doctors 24/7 and booking service with specialists, via the Medgate app.
  • Annual €300 budget for any health services of your choice with our partner Barmenia. This includes treatments, hospital daily allowance, alternative medicine, dental services, precautionary examinations and vaccinations.

Learning and development

  • AKQA Insight e-learning platform, which gathers thinking and ideas from all of our studios globally, alongside a guest-speaker event series.
  • AKQA Academy plan including management and leadership trainings, personal development workshops and technical trainings for each discipline.
  • 10 paid training days every two consecutive years for your own development
  • Bespoke one-to-one coaching sessions.
  • Access to online training platforms such as LinkedIn.
  • Global talent mobility programme, to support employees who want to work in another AKQA studio.

Lifestyle choices

  • Subsidised memberships to Urban Sports Club.
  • Subsidised BVG public transport annual membership.
  • Fresh organic fruit, drinks, snacks and cereals each day.
  • Regular company social events, including annual summer and winter parties, and monthly get-togethers to celebrate milestones.
  • Weekly all-company meetings, with refreshments, to share business updates.
  • AKQA staff discounts with local restaurants and shops, plus discounts for travel, fashion, technology, banking and entertainment, via our wider group WPP.
  • Recruitment referral scheme, with a € 2.000 payment if you refer someone who becomes permanently employed by AKQA.

Saving and protection

  • Company pension, with a 20% contribution from AKQA.
  • Eligibility for WPP stock options, once you’ve worked for AKQA for two years.
  • Company occupational disability insurance, with contribution from AKQA.