Hindley grew up on a farm near Melfort, Saskatchewan, as the oldest of four children. He graduated from the Western Academy Broadcasting College in Saskatoon. He was the morning news announcer and news director for the local radio stations for three and a half years and the colour commentator for the Swift Current Broncos hockey broadcasts.[2]
In 1999, he began working as the constituency assistant of then-MLA Brad Wall. After Wall became the Saskatchewan premier in 2007, Hindley served as his executive assistant until Wall left the premier post in 2017.[3]
