Director of Learning
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: People & Culture
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Education
Company profile: Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.
Description: You may have heard that we take developing our people very seriously at Vend. Not only are we focused on building a great piece of software that delights our retailers, we also want to create a company like no other and at the centre of this is our wonderful people.If you don’t know already, Vend is an award winning web based point of sale software for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers.  Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we’ve now got 12,000+ customers all over the world and we've just cracked 200 staff across our 7 offices - Auckland (HQ), Wellington, Melbourne, San Francisco, Toronto, London & Berlin.Big things are happening and we’re on track to over double in size in 2015. Now, it’s all very well adding lots of amazing new people to the team but what’s just as important is that we develop and support the people we have already in all of their career dreams and aspirations.And so here we are… We’re looking for a Director of Learning to take what we’ve done to date and run a million miles an hour with it making what one can only describe as a world class (read, the BEST) learning and development framework within a company EVER.We want everyone at Vend to reach their full potential and you can help make that happen.  
Requirements: Your mission is a big one so to succeed you will need the following:Strong instructional design skills and a desire to do all the things (because your sleeves, they will be rolled)A good business brain - you’ve seen a lot of stuff in and around the wider business - not just L&DExperience with the design & implementation of a learning strategy - preferably for a technology company, extra points for global.Experience in running leadership programs - especially ones that don’t come in a box marked “How to be a great leader”Lover of technology and someone who get’s a kick out of finding amazing tools to solve problemsData Geek! We loooooove data at Vend and this particular role and team is no exception. L&D dashboards say whaaaaaaat?!?Ability to JFDI and to not overthink things. You’ll need to be confident and totally okay with not a whole lot of direction. That’s why we’re hiring you remember?Entrepreneurial - when you have that natural ability to make something out of nothing.
Benefits: What you can expect from us:As well as developing a world-leading product, we believe that our culture is world-leading too! We balance all our hard work with having some fun at work!  Like playing pool, getting a Dia de los Muertos makeover, zoning out on the couches listening to music or raiding the snack cupboard. We know you have a life outside of work. This is valued and at Vend you can have a life inside work to.So if you're just a bit excited about this great new opportunity at Vend get that application through to us and be sure to show that awesome personality of yours. 
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