Career growth at Younium doesn't come from ticking boxes on a fixed program — it happens organically, in the responsibilities people grow into, the skills they build, and who they become along the way. We wanted to shed light on how that actually unfolds, so we spoke to five people who have grown in their role, in their skills, and personally. Across all the conversations, three themes kept coming up.

💡 First, every one of them was incredibly passionate and curious, and never stopped learning. People like that tend to find like-minded people at Younium — maybe that's why it feels so comfortable here.

🌱 Second, all of them understood that growth lives just outside your comfort zone. They kept broadening their horizons, trusted themselves to figure things out, and found the room at Younium to challenge themselves.

🚀 Third, their ambition was the driver of their own growth and Younium met it with trust, support, and attention — noticing when they put themselves out there.

That's how five people wove their professional and personal growth into one story. Let’s hear how they got there.

💡If you're curious and passionate, you'll find your people at Younium.

Eric puts it simply: sales is his passion. But it goes beyond that. He also wants to be genuinely excellent at what he does: "I'm striving to be the smartest in the room. Most of the times I'm not, but I'm striving to be." When he joined Younium, learning the product wasn't easy. Getting deep into finance and a new tech platform at the same time was genuinely challenging, but he leaned into it anyway and succeeded.

Also Iida's curiosity doesn't stop at her job description. She's genuinely interested in psychology, in why people do what they do, and she applies exactly that at work, always trying to figure out what lies beneath the surface.

For Hanna, it's always been a mix of curiosity, drive and teamwork — staying genuinely passionate about her work, figuring things out herself and never hesitating to ask when she got stuck. That's exactly how she got comfortable with Younium's CMS, for example: partly her own googling and trial and error, and partly a good amount of support from her team walking her through it.

Emma was so interested in taking on new tasks and learning new things that she ended up splitting her role 50/50 between Professional Services and Customer Success: "I need a challenge. Expanding my role meant new, different tasks that kept me constantly in growth mode."

Klara points the same instinct at the market itself. Nobody requires her to stay this close to the industry or post her own takes on where the space is heading — she does it because she likes to be ahead of the curve: "You need to understand the customer's world — their trends, their challenges, what's happening in the space. That's what actually lets you make an impact."

Five different people, five different areas of interest and passion — and that's really the point. Younium is about figuring out what you're actually good at and curious about, and letting that shape where your career goes, instead of the other way around. As Eric said: "Younium embraces you developing in the way that fits you best."

🌱If you push yourself outside your comfort zone, Younium gives you room to try and learn.

For Iida, that means public speaking. Her role has her presenting to customers and colleagues constantly, so instead of just getting by, she decided to actively get better at it — enrolling in public speaking classes, with Younium picking up the cost. Not because she had to. Because she'd decided it mattered to her, both for her role and for her self-development.

Emma found her own version of this when she stepped into Customer Success. Getting reacquainted with an additional side of the business while still being expected to deliver in it wasn't always comfortable, but she leaned into the uncertainty anyway.

The same goes for Klara, who sees getting uncomfortable as a necessity for growth. For her, Younium played a real role in that: "I've pushed myself outside my comfort zone plenty of times, and I think that's easier when you're at a company that actually has your back." One example: she moderated the CFO track at SaaSiest London last year. Nerves and all, her first time moderating went about as well as anyone's first time does, but it taught her she could do it — and she's already looking forward to the next one: "If I get the chance to do it again, I'll definitely come back with a few things I'd do differently and refine."

Hanna lives by a can-do attitude and saying yes even if you haven’t fully figured out everything yet: "I rarely say no to a new task or idea; if there's a chance to take something on, I try to make it work. Every time, I learn something new."

Eric describes that same willingness to step into the unknown: "I'd rather try ten new things and fail ten times than just doing the same thing over and over again without any change."

At Younium, we believe in providing room to keep improving, to try things before you're sure they'll work, and to get better because of it, not despite it.

🚀 Your ambition is the driver of your growth, and Younium will meet it with trust and support.

There's one more thing everyone we spoke to has in common: at some point, they put themselves out there and it paid off. Younium is a place for ambitious people willing to do exactly that. Our culture runs on trust and intrinsic motivation, not extrinsic control. Here, support is never far away, but we expect everyone to bring their own momentum. As Klara puts it: "You need to be in the driver's seat of where you want to go and your own career. Nobody else is going to do that for you. Be clear and realistic about where you want to go, and how you're planning to get there."

Both Eric and Iida started in roles that weren't exactly what they wanted long-term, but they were confident they'd work their way there. Iida's advice to anyone else: "If you're passionate about the space, just get in, be ambitious, put yourself out there. At Younium, that gets noticed."

Emma's kept looking for bigger challenges and ways to add real value to the company, and Viktoria, her manager, heard her. Their open communication eventually led to a role split that plays to exactly what Emma is best at and keeps her challenged in the best way.

Hanna took on increasingly complex tasks and dared to bring her own touch to her work like a more fun "Gen z" energy. That didn’t go unnoticed: "It's because the people at Younium are genuinely good at seeing you. They notice when you've grown, when you're ready for more, and they give you the chance to step into it."

Eric's version of putting himself forward started even before anyone gave him permission to: he closed his first deal before he was even an Account Executive. The opportunity came up, and he took it. "Sales is about winning. It's about putting yourself out there. It's about getting stuff done."

What these stories show is that career growth at Younium isn't one-size-fits-all. It's an approach grounded in the belief that when people get to work on what they're genuinely curious and passionate about, both they and the company grow. As Eric puts it: "Younium strives to give you the tools and the framework, and then you implement and apply them in the way that suits you."