Company description

We're a couple of employee-owned whole-animal butcher shops in Brooklyn. We provide local, sustainably-sourced meats alongside your favorite international provisions (think bags of MSG and Duke’s mayonnaise) to our rad-as-hell customers and neighbors. We aim to provide professorial know-how and an approachable, warm atmosphere, all while jamming to bitchin’ tunes and having a good time.

Job description

Prospect Butcher Co. is seeking full-time help! We’re looking for someone who’s down to make sausage kits and biscuits, field questions about yuzu kosho and crepinettes, and help our customers with everything from cheek bacon to rabbit.

Your primary task will be to act as a protein consultant to customers. You’ll coach them through how much of which cut they should purchase, walk them through cuts they’ve never tried, and make them feel confident cooking anything in the case.

There’s going to be plenty of opportunity to help with sausage production and our growing prepared foods program. You’ll also assist the butchers with weekly deliveries of whole pork, lamb, and beef, though whole-animal butchery experience isn’t required.

We’re a small team in a small space; everyone needs to be willing to help out with the register, break down chickens, slice charcuterie, make sandwiches, wash a dish, and provide warm, personable service to (seriously) the best customers in the game.

You need to:

• Be able to handle the physical demands of the role: standing for long stretches, lifting 40+ lbs., working with knives
• Be willing to jump in wherever help is needed; experience isn’t required, but a checked ego is
• Be punctual and eager to learn
• Be an avid home cook, ideally with some strong opinions on what one can do with a variety of cuts of meat
• Be flexible - as a growing business, we're always developing new structures, recipes, and products. Collaboration (and all the authorship and frustration that entails) plays a big part in how we operate.

What we offer: Dental, vision, paid vacation, company equity, store discount. We know the work is hard, so we give every employee a slice of the pie after a vesting period.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $18.00 - $20.00

Application instructions

Deadline

August 31, 2026