Do you want to join the growth story of curious professionals?
We are Kiva, which combines in-depth expertise, a community-driven culture and a passion to develop our customers’ digital marketing in a direction that others have not yet reached. To succeed here, we need professionals with us, but above all real team players. We believe that our culture based on radical self-initiative and community orientation creates opportunities for this to succeed.
About Kiva
There are things that you should know beforehand about Kiva
We at Kiva are not perfect and we dare to say it out loud. Our way of working is based on teamwork and the freedom created through community control. However, this freedom comes with a surprisingly big responsibility:
Kiva’s organizational structure and dynamics do not correspond to traditional organizations
If you are looking for a clear manager-setting and one-size-fits-all ways of working, Kiva is not necessarily the most suitable place for you. If you feel that Kiva needs a certain way of doing things or a process and you genuinely believe that it will benefit the community, you have an obligation to bring it up and finally implement it together with your colleagues.
Radical initiative and commitment to the work community is expected of you
It can be a small everyday chore or a bigger intervention. In customer teams, decisions are made independently and the work community is developed together without major bureaucracy. The most important thing is that the decisions have a justified benefit for customers, colleagues and Kiva. In Kiva’s work community, you therefore have significantly more responsibility as well as influence than in traditional organizations.
We expect you to be an active person
You are considered an equal member of Kiva’s work community, and at the same time you are expected to be active. Kiva’s success and growth happen in teams, always as a result of the cooperation of several people. This requires different abilities from normal organizations, such as speaking up, helping others and facilitation skills.
You can expect to be a little lost at Kiva at first
This is fine! It’s probably because we don’t have hierarchical structures and a direct supervisor to tell you what to do. Because of this, you should identify where you should start and communicate it convincingly in customer teams. This will definitely take some getting used to, but in the end it will be surprisingly easy and we will succeed together because of it. However, no one is left alone, because colleagues and those in lead roles help when you dare to ask and also help others. Together we search and will generate an idea of what to try next.
You can expect open and honest communication
Kiva’s operating method is based on the fact that as many things as possible are open to everyone. We recognize that we are still on the way in this regard as well, but we feel that this is the only way we can make our community work. Smart people make smart decisions, if only together we ensure that management, culture and structures make it possible.
Our Values
Respect, Pride and Curiosity
Respect is the starting point for trust. Respect ensures that we have the courage to do the right thing.
We respect our colleagues, our customers and our work. When the starting point of operations is respect, it creates an atmosphere that supports success for teamwork and customer work.
You can feel pride when we achieve our goals and succeed with our customers. However, pride does not mean arrogance or vanity.
If we want to be proud of ourselves, we should also be proud of our colleagues, customers and team members. Pride always goes hand in hand with humility. This is the only way we can reach our mission of uncompromising quality and superior customer experience.
Curiosity is the key to personal growth and development. We must challenge ourselves and our customers to find new ways of working and to challenge the status quo. Without curiosity, it is impossible to stay at the forefront of the ever-evolving digital business.
Recruitment Process
Our Recruitment Process
When you apply to join our community, you go through these three steps:
1. Informal introduction
We want to find self-initiative, community-driven people as colleagues who share our values and find similar themes important. Based on this meeting, we will try to figure out with you whether Kiva could be a workplace where you can succeed and have fun.
The first meeting is carried out in a relaxed way that is suitably for you. It can be a meeting over lunch, coffee or at our office. The most important thing is that after this meeting you have a better idea of what kind of workplace Kiva is and together we have considered whether our culture could suit you.
2. Meeting colleagues and getting to know each other more technically
When Kiva feels like the right place after the first meeting, it’s time to get to know the team more closely and talk more technically. At this stage, you get to know your potential colleagues and present your skills in more detail.
After the first stage, you have also received a preliminary assignment in which you evaluate yourself from the perspective of skills important to Kiva. In the second meeting, this assignment may also be discussed.
Kiva is a house of experienced consultants, where high-quality digital marketing and the development of the client’s business are at the center. We appreciate your motivation and curiosity to learn new things quickly and understand the business of our diverse customers. In this more technical introduction, you will be able to tell more about your skills and previous work experiences.
3. Reflection and agreeing on the next steps
In the third meeting, you get to reflect on the content of the previous meetings and meet Kiva’s management again. To get to this stage, your potential colleagues have shown the green light and would like you to be part of our work community.
When all the questions have been discussed and answered as well as a possible consensus found, it’s time to lock the last parameters of the employment relationship. We try to go through the recruitment process as openly and gradually as possible. The goal is that in this last meeting we will celebrate our new work relationship!