KONE manufactures and maintains elevators, escalators, and automatic doors across 10,000+ employees globally. The tech stack—SAP, Python, Go, Java, AWS, Azure, GCP, IoT platforms, and Microsoft Power Platform—reveals a company simultaneously managing legacy enterprise operations (SAP, Workday) and building cloud-native IoT and automation capabilities. Active hiring across engineering (563), operations (391), and sales (285) reflects execution against three concurrent frontiers: digital service upselling via IoT, modernization of installed base, and geographic expansion. Internal pain points center on modernizing legacy systems, safety compliance, and engineer talent scarcity—classic constraints for an industrial OEM scaling software-enabled services.
Tech Stack 146 technologies
What KONE Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving r2r efficiency
- Cost control
- Improving safety performance
- Customer satisfaction
- Efficiency improvement
- Ensuring safety compliance
- Compliance with regulations
- Modernizing legacy elevator systems
- Shortage of qualified escalator engineers
- Modernization sales opportunities
▲Active Projects
- Elevator modernization
- Modernization projects
- Digital iot service solutions upselling
- Modernization sales
- Commercial elevator construction projects
- Audits and pilot new products
- Sales strategy development
- District sales plans
- New building solutions
- Develop installation methods
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: PMO Head, Head of Delivery Operations, Team Lead, Team Lead Inspections, Installation Director
