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

Deadline

July 31, 2022