Company description
We're a natural wine shop in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. We chose the name Schmetterling (which means "butterfly" in German) because we love Austrian, German, Alsatian & other cold weather wines (yes, also Vermont wines!). Schmetterling was created by a queer couple & queerness radiates from the business.
Job description
Schmetterling is a natural wine shop in Middlebury, VT. The shop is a 650 square foot spot playing vinyl & overlooking Otter Creek. We are queer-owned & operated. So, Queers to the front!
Expected Hours per Week: 16-35
Rate: $18/Hour
Start Date: Now/Flexible (Fall?!)
Qualities you should have or want to strengthen:
- Interested in wine & furthering your learning (formal education not necessary but welcome). We can point toward resources, but you should be driven to self-educate.
- Able to work 1 on 1 with customers to guide them through the buying experience, listening to them & knowing the shop’s inventory.
- Able to lift 50 pounds.
- Must be able to work weekends, holidays & evenings. (Shop Hours: 11-8 Thursday-Mon)
- Be comfortable working alone & remaining engaged in the job (self-starter)
- Comfort with Square & Apple products (we can train!)
- Reliable, supportive, compassionate, patient & curious
- Able to adhere to systems
- We’re a serious wine shop run by thoughtful people and you’d fit into that culture.
- You’ve thought about gender, queerness, justice, community, and actions to make the world better.
Job duties:
- Greet customers & engage on their preferences
- Stay up to date on what’s in stock in the shop through collective staff notes
- Research wines & draft notes to share with staff
- Answer the phone
- Ring out sales
- Count the inventory
- Receive, lift, move & unpack cases of wine
- Straighten, arrange, dust & stock shelves
- Overall, your job will be to connect shoppers to the perfect wine that matches their goals and price expectations, while also sharing something new, all in an unpretentious environment.
Benefits Include:
- In store discounts
- Accrued paid time off
- Paid wine education
- Travel stipend
Other Info:
- The owners have lots of active projects & interested, advancement-minded folks may be able grow with Schmetterling & to plug in to projects across the food system
- One of the owners has left a 20 year restaurant career for retail and the other is an attorney. We’re looking for folks who have service experience, but it doesn’t need to be in retail. (And we have a soft-spot for burnt out restaurant folks).
- We’re looking for engaged humans who will grow and learn with us, we’re not looking for robots in uniforms.
- We’ll be hiring for a manager role in a couple of months, if you think you might be a better fit for that role, send us an email.
- If you feel less than qualified, but you have capacity and interest to learn, please apply.
Compensation
this position is: hourly, $15-20/hr
Application instructions
This job expired on August 07, 2022
Deadline
July 31, 2022