About Kinly
A talent network built to help the creative industry find each other.
Kinly is a talent network connecting designers, account teams, strategists, leadership, etc. to the brands, agencies and recruiters searching for them.
The creative industry does not have a talent problem. It has a connection problem.
We built Kinly because too many opportunities are filled with who you know instead of what you know; which we believe is wrong. Talented people can be perfect for an opportunity but never hear about it. Brands and agencies can spend weeks searching for the perfect candidate while that person sits just outside of their network.
Kinly is built to make those connections easier.
Why we built Kinly
The people behind great work deserve to be seen.
In the creative industry, agencies often get the recognition. Their name goes on the case study. Their logo is attached to the award. Their work gets featured in the press.
But behind every campaign, rebrand, launch, film, website or big idea is a group of people who actually made it happen.
- The creative director who shaped the idea.
- The designer who brought it to life.
- The writer who found the words.
- The strategist who uncovered the insight.
- The producer who held everything together.
- The freelancer who stepped in and made the work better.
Too often, those people disappear behind the agency name. Kinly is built to bring them forward.
We want to give the people behind the work a place to show what they contributed, build a reputation around the work they helped create and become discoverable because of what they actually did — not just the companies they happened to work for.
Because great agencies deserve recognition. But so do the people behind the curtain who made the work great.
Built for creative work
A network designed for the creative industry.
Kinly is not a general professional network or another traditional job board. It is built specifically around creative work and the people who make it.
Creative professionals
Showcase your experience, highlight the work you’re proud of, share your availability and discover creative jobs and opportunities.
Why Kinly for TalentBrands
Discover creative professionals with relevant skills and experience.
Why Kinly for BrandsAgencies
Find independent creative talent, freelancers and collaborators, and become more discoverable to brands looking for agency partners.
Why Kinly for AgenciesRecruiters
Search a network focused specifically on creative talent rather than relying entirely on broad professional databases.
Why Kinly for RecruitersYour work should matter more than the algorithm.
Creative professionals should not have to become full-time content creators just to remain visible.
The quality of your work should matter. Your experience should matter. Your reputation should matter. The types of projects you want to work on next should matter.
Kinly is being built around those signals instead of simply rewarding whoever posts the most frequently or generates the most engagement. We want creative professionals to be discovered because of what they have done — and what they are capable of doing next.
For creative talent
Helping creative talent become easier to discover.
Instead of reducing someone to a résumé or job title, Kinly puts more emphasis on the work itself — giving creative professionals a clearer way to communicate who they are, what they have worked on and what they want to do next.
Creative work and portfolios
Show the projects, campaigns and ideas you helped create.
Experience and creative credits
Give context to the work and the role you played in making it happen.
Skills and specialties
Make it easier for others to understand what you actually do.
Availability
Let the industry know when you are open to freelance work, full-time opportunities or new collaborations.
What you want next
Because your next opportunity should not be determined only by your last job title.
For brands & agencies
Helping brands and agencies discover new creative talent.
Hiring creative talent is different from hiring for many traditional roles. Titles alone rarely tell the full story.
Two creative directors can have completely different backgrounds, styles, category experience and strengths. The same is true for designers, writers, strategists, producers and marketers.
Kinly helps brands and agencies discover creative professionals based on more than a résumé — with more context around the work, experience and people behind it, so companies can make better connections earlier in the hiring process.
Opening the creative industry to more people.
Many creative industries still operate within relatively small professional circles. Those circles can be incredibly valuable, but they can also make it difficult for new people to break in — and for established professionals to move beyond their existing network.
Kinly is built around the idea that discovery should extend beyond who you already know. We want to help:
- Creative professionals reach companies outside their immediate network.
- Brands find people beyond the same talent pools.
- Agencies discover new collaborators.
- Recruiters uncover creative talent they may otherwise miss.
Not by replacing relationships. By creating more opportunities for relationships to begin.
Our mission
What Kinly is here to change.
We want to make the creative industry more connected. That means reducing the distance between:
The technology matters. The network matters. But ultimately, Kinly is about people — because great creative work begins when the right people find each other.
Kinly is an Oddity company
Different platforms. Same belief.
Kinly was created by Oddity, a company focused on building better connections across the creative industry. Oddity helps brands discover creative agencies and partners. Kinly focuses on the people behind the work — helping creative professionals, brands, agencies and recruiters discover one another.
Better connections lead to better creative work.
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