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1Huddle

SaaS game-based employee training platform

Instructional Designer

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Newark, NJ, USA
In Person
TrainingInstructional Design & Curriculum Development

About the job

Requirements
  • Past or current experience creating trivia or game-based content is required.
  • A Bachelor's Degree is required.
  • Excellent writing skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively are required.
  • The candidate should be pursuing a career in education, teaching, or learning and development.
  • The ability to consistently meet tight deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment is required.
  • All employees are required to be vaccinated.
Responsibilities
  • Convert content such as book summaries and lecture notes into the company's game format.
  • Convert company manuals and standard operating procedures into quizzes and tests.
  • Create quizzes from provided materials.

About the company

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1Huddle

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1Huddle provides a SaaS platform that turns training content into bite-sized mobile games for onboarding, upskilling, and ongoing employee development. Companies use a proprietary game builder to create custom trivia-style games or choose from a library, focusing on job skills, product knowledge, or procedures. The platform features leaderboards, real-time analytics for managers, and rewards to motivate performance, engaging users from frontline staff to leaders. Its goal is to improve knowledge retention, speed up onboarding, and boost engagement across industries such as hospitality, retail, government, and healthcare.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$9.1M

Headquarters

Newark, New Jersey

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • EMERGING Fund and New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund validated 1Huddle’s restaurant expansion.
  • Audible’s September 2025 $1 million deal confirms enterprise willingness to pay.
  • NJRC’s SkillWallet expansion broadens reach into reentry programs and workforce mobility.

What critics are saying

  • January 2026 free worker access commoditizes employer pricing and weakens enterprise control.
  • Heavy dependence on restaurants and hospitality exposes 1Huddle to churn when budgets tighten.
  • If SkillWallet stalls, larger HR suites can copy gamified training and displace 1Huddle.

What makes 1Huddle unique

  • 1Huddle’s January 2026 SkillWallet turns training into portable worker credentials.
  • Its mobile games library exceeds 3,000 games across 16 workforce skill areas.
  • June 2026 Lab wins showed Lincoln Green switching providers and Prezzo extending pilots.

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Jul 18th, 2024
NJRC, 1Huddle partner on AI-powered initiative

1Huddle will be honored as a 2024 NJBIZ Leader In Digital Technology during a virtual awards ceremony Aug. 22.

ROI-NJ
Jul 16th, 2024
1Huddle, N.J. Reentry Corp. Announce Partnership To Empower Returning Citizens With Ai-Powered Skillwallet

Training and Development, Orange Button on Computer Keyboard. Internet Concept. Newark-based 1Huddle, a leader in workforce training and development, said Tuesday that it expanded its partnership with the New Jersey Reentry Corp. to further empower returning citizens with technology to enhance their employability. Building on an already-successful collaboration, this expansion leverages 1Huddle’s latest innovation, the artificial intelligence-powered SkillWallet, to provide NJRC clients with a powerful tool to stack all their training credentials into a single digital wallet-style résumé. Returning from prison presents numerous challenges, not least of which is finding gainful employment

ROI-NJ
Mar 19th, 2024
Tech Trends: Investment From Emerging Fund Fuels Restaurant Talent Development

News came recently that Newark-based 1Huddle, which was in the first cohort at the Newark Venture Partners accelerator in 2015, received an important investment from Chicago-based EMERGING Fund to scale in the restaurant sector. While the numbers haven’t been released, 1Huddle founder and CEO Sam Caucci called this investment significant because EMERGING Fund is a new fund that invests in early-stage concepts and innovative technology companies in the restaurant industry. Restaurant workforce development is a key vertical in which 1Huddle is having great success. 1Huddle made its mark by gamifying workforce development using science-backed, quick-burst mobile games. Workers literally play games on their phones to learn the material their employers need them to learn. This is working out well on the restaurant industry’s front lines, with the high turnover and constant need for retooling workers

ROI-NJ
Oct 13th, 2023
Njeda Approves 1St Innovation Evergreen Fund Investment, To Newark-Based 1Huddle

1Huddle, a training and development platform based in Newark that uses quick-burst mobile games to quickly and effectively educate and upskill a workforce, has been approved as the first recipient of an up-to-$500,000 investment from the New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund. The Thursday announcement from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority board is the result of approval of an application submitted by EMERGING Fund Management LLC. “The NJIEF is unique to New Jersey because of its self-sustaining model, designed to create a continuous loop of investment and mentorship,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said. “The achievement of this first cycle of investment is something to celebrate, as it validates the program’s ability to fuel the next generation of innovative New Jersey businesses.”

1Huddle
Jun 13th, 2023
1Huddle wins Beacon of Hope Award

1Huddle wins Beacon of Hope Award.