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2019 Content Development Top 20 Company
Kineo, Training Industry Awards
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Best learning technologies project - UK commercial sector
Kineo and Mitchells & Butlers, Learning Technologies Awards (UK)
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Platinum Award - Best sales training project
Kineo and Caterpillar Marine, LearnX awards (UK)
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Platinum Award - Best learning, performance and capability team
Kineo and Caterpillar Marine, LearnX awards (UK)
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Platinum Award - Best bitesize learning design
Kineo and ASADA, LearnX awards (AU)
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Best use of Totara for an international organisation
Kineo and PepsiCo, Totara Awards (UK)
We're shaping the future of learning
What we do
We're here to improve performance in your business by creating a better workplace learning experience
Everything we do stems from that simple idea: if we design a better experience, together we'll get better results. Workplace learning and development doesn't need to be boring - let's shake things up for your people and give them what they need to do a great job.
From your L&D strategy through to designing effective learning content and a powerful platform to deliver it, we'll partner with you every step of the way.
Our partnerships
Good relationships are the foundation of our success
No man – nor global learning technology business – is an island. At Kineo we couldn't do what we do without the help of great relationships – with our customers and delivery partners.
We joined the City & Guilds Group in 2012. Together with The Oxford Group we offer world-class workplace learning and development for leading businesses across the globe.
A group greater than the sum of its parts
As a City & Guilds Group business we're part of a powerful global group, leading the way in skills development, technology and credentialing.
Each part of the group has its own focus but we're united by our purpose - helping people and organizations develop skills for growth. And by working together we can offer end to end skills development solutions to customers around the world.
City & Guilds Group brands
New venture fund partners
Award winning
Recognizing learning and development excellence and innovation
Our approach is to listen to our customers' needs and create a partnership that gives us the best chance of helping them achieve business goals. We're outcome-focused in everything we do. So it isn't all about awards - but who doesn't love winning stuff?
We love to make our customers heroes. It's their hard work, ambition and passion that allows us to work on such exciting projects. So it's great when that's recognised and awarded by the wider L&D industry.
Shaping futures
How we live our values
Everything we do at Kineo is shaped by living and breathing our values. Whether that's giving back to our communities, committing to quality, being innovative or serving our clients to the best of our ability, you'll see our values running like a golden thread through our work and our actions. For our customers and for our people, we're shaping futures.
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Leadership
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Imagination
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Integrity
Our values
How we put them into practice
We're a quality team
We want to make sure the Kineo experience is high quality for you. And we're focused on quality in the work we produce. To make that happen, we employ the very best people. Together with our clients we’ve won numerous awards – that’s nice, but we’re not just in it for the gongs. We want to make a measurable difference for your business.
We give back to our communities
We like to do our bit – whether that's volunteering in our local communities, offering work experience placements or giving something back to the learning and development world. We love to share – our time, our expertise and our sense of fun.
Kineo people
It’s easy to spot a Kineo person
Imaginative, talented, supportive and just a bit … different, it’s our people that drive our success.
Whatever your project you’ll be working with the best – creative people who really care about making your learning shine. We want you to get to know us - it's important that you're comfortable sharing your L&D challenges with us anytime.
It’s no coincidence that we have job titles like 'solutions consultant' and 'learning consultant'. From the get-go we'll talk through your challenge and be on-hand with expert advice.
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Rory
Account Director
Q. What’s been your highlight at Kineo so far?
A. Being part of the team that won Best Learning Technologies project at the UK Learning Technologies awards.
Q. What learning are you doing right now?
A. I’m researching and learning about approaches and technologies to deliver personalized learning and online social learning experiences.
Q. What is the most embarrassing way you've hurt yourself?
A. I shot myself in the leg with a starter gun cap ... at age 9.
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Will
Learning designer
Q. What is the best thing about your job?
A. Variety – I feel like I’m on a series of secondments in a range of other industries.
Q. What has been your highlight at Kineo so far?
A. Last year I spent a week in Tokyo working with a really interesting client, then took a few days annual leave to explore the city on my own and go snowboarding on Mount Naeba.
Q. What is the worst purchase you’ve ever made?
A. A pineapple corer. Turns out pineapples come in lots of different sizes and are just easier to core using conventional methods.
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Krista
Learning consultant
Q. How long have you worked in the digital learning industry?
A. Since 2000, so 18 years.
Q. Proudest moment working at Kineo?
A. Great feedback after submitting my first piece of learning consultancy work. Phew.
Q. What would you name your boat if you had one?
A. Her Ladyship.
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David
Lead Solutions Architect
Q. How long have you worked in the digital learning industry?
A. Eight and a half years.
Q. What other areas do you specialise in?
A. Futures and options pricing and risk analysis.
Q. What is the most embarrassing way you've hurt yourself?
A. Breaking both my wrists jumping off a swing.
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Angela
Senior Lead Learning Designer
Q. What is the best thing about your job?
A. Creating great solutions for learners and receiving wonderful feedback from our clients.
Q. What learning are you doing right now?
A. I’ve just finished my Diploma in L&D from the CIPD, so am consolidating that learning at the moment.
Q. What’s the most useless talent you have?
A. Stocktaking live crickets.
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Adam
Senior Client Services Manager
Q. What is the best thing about your job?
A. Dealing with a wide range of clients and being able to influence strategy in terms of client implementations.
Q. What’s been your highlight at Kineo so far?
A. Taking over a negative client relationship and turning it around.
Q. What’s the most useless talent you have?
A. There are a few… yoyo tricks, beatboxing, those little wooden puzzles you get a Christmas…
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Jez
Head of Consulting
Q. What is the best thing about your job?
A. I get to meet people who are really passionate about learning and working out how Kineo can help them make the best use of the technologies available.
Q. What other areas do you specialise in?
A. I am a seasoned and experienced facilitator and coach. It’s always great to get opportunities to put these skills into practice.
Q. What learning are you doing right now?
A. I’m trying (and failing) to teach myself French …
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Seth
Senior lead learning designer
Q. What’s been your highlight at Kineo so far?
A. Visiting a building the size of an aircraft hangar, which was stuffed full of the country’s most advanced industrial robots.
Q. What kind of content do you like best when you’re learning something?
A. A video I can absorb, a book I can scribble on or a human I can debate with.
Q. What is the most embarrassing way you've hurt yourself?
A. Cycling into a parked car at full race speed...
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Matt
Project Manager
Q. What is the best thing about your job?
A. Delivering a great finished product for a happy client.
Q. What form of content do you like best when you’re learning something?
A. Something interactive rather than just reading.
Q. What is the worst purchase you’ve ever made?
A. Snow boots for a holiday to Norway that I then forgot to pack!
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Matt
Senior Lead Learning Designer
Q. What is the best thing about your job?
A. The wide range of projects and clients we work with – you learn about so many things doing this job!
Q. Proudest moment working at Kineo?
A. Proud of the amazing stuff the team here in Sheffield produce every day, and contributing to some award winners.
Q. What’s the most useless talent you have?
A. Moonwalking. I can’t dance otherwise.
Careers
Great people are the heart and soul of Kineo
We're always looking for enthusiastic, professional people who share our passion for creativity and delivering great customer service. Could you be a Kineo person?
See our current vacancies.
Kineo is looking for the right person to join our team as a Solution Consultant. As a Solution Consultant, you’ll be responsible engaging new clients and expanding relations with existing ones.
Day to day you’ll be the person who works with existing and prospective clients to understand their challenges and goals. You’ll work with our team of Learning Consultants, Instructional Designers, Graphic Artists and PMs, to put the ideas together for how we can best partner to meet those challenges. And then you’ll present the proposed solution to win the opportunity to make it our next new project.
It’s a sales role, but with a small “s” - you will be expected to grow our business, but we don’t want ‘traditional salespeople’. We want someone who is passionate about learning and technology, and has firsthand experience of designing, developing, managing and implementing solutions. In exchange, Kineo will support you through marketing and sales to generate prospects so you can focus on building relationships and guiding our clients.
People thriving in this role at Kineo today include experienced eLearning designers, former clients, former project managers, and consultants with a flair for selling solutions.
- You’ll need to be confident, credible and able to hold your own with senior stakeholders in conversations around solution development, the e-learning and/or LMS market, design, delivery, and technical solutions.
- You’ll be great at communicating, both in proposals and pitches and client meetings and at tradeshows and marketing events.
- You know the e-learning and/or the LMS industry well, and will have relationships within it.
- You’ll be great at building relationships with clients and making them feel loved.
Location
Flexible
To apply
email cover letter and resume to steve.lowenthal@kineo.com
Kineo US is looking for passionate and experienced learning designers to join our team in a contract or full-time capacity.
In this role, you are responsible for leading the design on select client projects, helping to uncover the project needs and goals, the learning objectives, and audience personas. You define the learning approach and project design that maps to the project scope and budget, captured in high-level design documents that often include wireframes or sketches to communicate the learner experience.
You collaborate with the Art Director and Technical lead from both a design and visual perspective to validate the feasibility of your design approach and to create a shared vision for the design.
On some projects, you also lead the content acquisition with clients and create or oversee the creation of detailed design documents that map the content to your design more concretely. You also oversee the creation of scripts, ensuring the tone and style maps to the client’s brand and audience.
Your experience
- At least 5 years experience leading design on e-learning projects
- Experience conducting training needs analysis and curriculum design for corporate clients
- Proven instructional design skills
- Experience designing for Storyline, Captivate and similar tools; experience with designing for MOOCs, interactive video, HTML5 frameworks a plus
Where you shine
- You’re great at working with clients
You can command a room, with an authentic and inviting quality that makes clients love working and collaborating with you. You know how to ask the right questions to get below the surface of the problem, and you listen before you jump to solutions. You act in a consultative manner to guide clients and to help them be a better partner for us.
- You’re well-versed in interactive, action-oriented learning solutions
You’re experienced primarily with an e-learning environment, but you’re comfortable extending that thinking into other modalities like interactive video, workshops, or anything else that might enter the mix.
- You’re a team player
You care about project timelines, budgets, and making sure that everyone on the team has what they need to fulfill your design vision. You proactively communicate project risks and readily volunteer when you have time to lend a hand. You can command a room, with an authentic and inviting quality that makes clients love working and collaborating with you.
- You’re an articulate, creative writer
You know how to breathe life into the most boring of content. You have empathy for the learner and speak to them, not at them. Our work, after all, is all about making learners’ lives and jobs easier and more enjoyable. You also know how to guide other writers who might be working with you to develop scripts.
Other Requirements
- Some travel may be required
- Full-time applicants must be Chicago-based; contract applicants preferred to be Chicago-based but will consider remote applicants
- Must be willing to occasionally work to different US and International time zones.
To apply
Email Ashley Reardon with your resume and work samples. Work samples must include design documentation that illustrates and articulates your design approach. Screenshots of the end product are also helpful. Samples can be “scrubbed” for sensitive material or shared via a web share session.