We put all our vacancies on this jobs board so please check back regularly if you are interested in joining us.
We encourage applications from all as we look to overcome diversity, equality and inclusion barriers to the outdoors.
Here are our current vacancies:
General Vacancies
Retail Development Manager
Campus VacanciesFinance Director
HR Manager Maternity Cover
Sonder Customer Support Hero
Customer Support Hero
Factory Machinist
Campus Vacancies
Inverness Vacancies
Store Manager Assistant Store Manager
Key Holder
Repair Hero
Store Heroes (multiple)
Metrocentre VacanciesAssistant Store Manager
Metrocentre Vacancies
We need someone to join our retail team to develop, manage and support our stores in creating an unrivalled place to shop and service to our customers. Deliver the physical embodiment of Alpkit and Sonder brands so you get a unique experience no matter the location.
Think of one of our stores as a base camp, a well-equipped gear store with the entire Alpkit product range inside. We've got a wetsuit to try on, bike packing luggage to fit for size and sleeping bags packed up to show their pack sizes. You can hire a bouldering mat, demo a bike, or book your tired and weary kit in for repair. Or, you can just come in and hang out when you're soggy and tired after a full day running, biking or hiking!
We are champions of sustainability and are world class at what we do. This comes by choosing to do the right thing and continuously aiming to do better. These guiding principles are embraced throughout our Retail Team.
Our AKtivism Values
We enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, see customers with our products in use, and win awards.
About the Role
Personal attributes
Perks of the job
Option to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, green travel commuting subsidy, 5 paid volunteer days.
Sustainability is written deeply in our DNA, and we promote a learning culture. We are passionate about encouraging personal career development through, weekly training, Adventure Training, and paid study support for professional qualifications.
About Alpkit
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
How to apply
If you think you can wear the Alpkit red t-shirt and want the opportunity to really help build & influence our stores, then email your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com telling us why you think you’d fit in well at our Retail Development Manager along with your CV.
We're looking for a Finance Director to join us at Alpkit HQ. Your role will be to lead our finance and HR team. You'll be liaising with the board, suppliers, customers and financial institutions to ensure we have the funding in place to turn our vision into a reality, keeping the business on track to deliver results.
About you
You'll be a qualified accountant with experience of raising finance and a proven track record leading a finance team, ideally in the outdoor industry, cycling industry or within retail and consumer goods. A strategic thinker with demonstrable commercial flair, able to challenge and ask questions at all levels. We're looking for a 'boardroom skillset' with excellent interpersonal skills and experience working in a fast-paced growth environment.
Competencies
Attributes
Values
About the role
About Alpkit
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
How to apply
If you're interested in the role please contact Nick Brushett at nbrushett@brewsterpartners.co.uk or 07792 268 602.
Your role in Alpkit
We are looking for an experienced People Manager to join us at Alpkit to cover a fixed term maternity leave. So, if you’re highly organised and put people at the heart of what you do, we want to hear from you!
This role will touch most areas of people & payroll support so will need someone who is extremely well organised and has a fantastic attention to detail, some would say bordering on obsessive!
This is an exciting time to join us; our people are the heart and soul of Alpkit, and this is a crucial role for us as you will support our Senior Leadership Team in achieving growth, a sustainable business and embedding our culture of happiness.
Your Alpkit journey will include
The role is incredibly varied, from supporting staff and managers with day -to day queries, managing our HR database, whilst also having the opportunity to work on some of our exciting employee engagement initiatives such as our Pulse Surveys, Internal Communications and delivering B-Corp initiatives. We have some key deliverables we want to achieve over the next 12 months, so you will enjoy working on HR projects.
Here is a little flavour of what you will get involved in;
About you
Most importantly you have a true passion for people, culture, learning and development but here are some other skills and experiences would help you be a true success in this role.
This role is in effect a ‘stand-alone’ role, but at Alpkit you are never alone; the role reports into our Finance Director, our Head of People will be available to support throughout this fixed term and both our Board of Directors and SLT are on hand to work with you and support you in this role.
The People Team
We look after the people who deliver great product and great service to all our customers; our aim is create a brilliant place to work, where we live our Aktivism values and staff know that they will receive great training and development.
We do this through supporting recruitment, inducting newbies, organising training, providing opportunities for career development, motivating staff and making and allowing for opportunities to have fun and get outdoors.
Our values driven culture (Aktivism) is key to our success, so we put people and planet before profit and it’s our job to keep our values of great product, sustainability, giving back and empowering our people, alive and kicking!
If you are interested in applying, then email your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com, we can’t wait to hear about your love of supporting a business through its people!
Everyone has a story. What’s yours?
Here at Alpkit, we enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, and when see customers with our products in use. Our products are obsessively conceived and expertly built. From the UK designed and made bikes in our workshop, to the bouldering pads and backpacks made in our UK factory. We’re obsessive about Customer Experience.
We are looking for a new Hero to join our award-winning Customer Support team. Someone who loves gear as much as we do, and can talk about that gear to our customers.
What you’ll be doing?
You’ll work within the Customer Support team with responsibility for guiding our customers from order all the way through to delivery. You’ll also help our customers with any aftersales care they may need, with our fantastic 3 year 'Alpine Bond' warranty as a guide.
Customer Service is at the core of the Alpkit & Sonder experience, and we work hard to continuously improve that experience.
Your day will include:
About Alpkit
Customer experience is placed at the heart of Alpkit operations. We strive to be with our customer throughout their journey with us.
Our entire operation works to continually improve the Alpkit experience for our customers, from increasing product range and performance, to addressing customer concerns such as minimising plastic use and improving our internal systems to advance our service.
We are a multi-award winning adventure sports brand and retailer. Our pursuit of great customer experience is at the core of what we do.
What you’ll bring to the team
Perks of the job
Ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, commuting subsidy for those that travel to work in a greener way! We are environmentally and sustainability conscious and we promote a learning culture.
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
If you feel this role is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you at jobs@alpkit.com.
About the Role
Do you love outdoor kit so much you want to make it? Join our UK factory and bring the
passion of what you love doing to the products to help others get out to go nice places and
do good things.
We’re looking for an experienced sewing machinist to join our team to help us out with production. Someone self-motivated who takes pride in producing high-quality outdoor products. You will be taking products from the very start of production to the very end with a group of like-minded outdoors enthusiasts. Candidates must have excellent communication skills, good timekeeping, and a keen eye for detail and quality.
Our Aktivism Values; We enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, see customers with our products in use, win awards.
About the team
Alpkit is a small team with excellent customer service. The bread and butter of the business
is the high-quality products and you will be an important part of what we do. We have a
relaxed working environment where tea and coffee is to hand, decent music plays, but when
there’s stuff to do we knuckle down and get the job done.
The factory sewing machinist role involves handling raw materials, using heavy duty lock stitch machines, binders and bartacker
About you
Sewing Experience is essential for this role.
How to apply
Interested? Please email your CV to us jobs@alpkit.com along with a covering letter/email
explaining why you would like to be part of the team.
Everyone has a story. What’s yours?
Do you want to work for a company that puts people and planet first?
Here at Alpkit, we enjoy serving customers and chatting about adventures. We thrive on being helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. we’re a registered B Corp, and sustainability sits at the heart of everything we do. We love to get reviews, and we love to see customers on rides with a Sonder bike!
Our products are dedicatedly conceived and expertly built. From the UK designed and made bikes in our workshop, to the bouldering pads and backpacks made in our UK factory. We’re obsessive about Customer Experience. We are looking for a new Hero to join our award-winning Customer Support team. Someone who loves bikes as much as we do and can talk about that gear to our customers.
What you’ll be doing?
You’ll work within the Customer Support team, which deals with Sonder bikes and with Alpkit queries. Your responsibility will sit predominantly with our Sonder team, with responsibility for sales and helping our customers from order all the way through to delivery. You’ll also help our customers with any aftersales care they may need, with our fantastic 3 year ‘Alpine Bond’ warranty as a guide. Customer Service is at the core of the Alpkit & Sonder experience, and we work hard to continuously improve that experience.
Your day will include:
About Alpkit & Sonder Here at Alpkit, we love customers, and we love a good chat. We strive to be with our customer throughout their journey with us. Our entire operation works to continually improve the Alpkit & Sonder experience for our customers, from increasing product range and performance, to addressing customer concerns such as minimising plastic use and improving our internal systems to advance our service. We are a multi-award winning adventure sports brand and retailer. Our pursuit of great customer experience is at the core of what we do.
What you’ll bring to the team
Perks of the job
Ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit/Sonder discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, commuting subsidy for those that travel to work in a greener way. We are environmentally and sustainability conscious and we promote a learning culture.
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
If you feel this role is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you at jobs@alpkit.com.
We’ve got exciting news - we’re opening a brand-new store in Inverness! We’re on the hunt for our new team. We’re looking for an awesome Store Manager, an amazing Assistant Manager, a spectacular Key Holder, and a great bunch of Store Heroes. If you have a passion for the outdoors, come and help us Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
About the Retail Team
Our heroes on the customer front line play a huge part within Alpkit. This is an exciting opportunity for the individual who loves the outdoors, wants to grow a retail location, and wants to work in a vibrant store, offering real service with personality.
Think of one of our stores as a base camp, a well-equipped gear store with the entire Alpkit product range inside. We've got a wetsuit to try on, bike packing luggage to fit for size and sleeping bags packed up to show their pack sizes. You can hire a bouldering mat, demo a bike, or book your tired and weary kit in for repair. Or, you can just come in and hang out when you're soggy and tired after a full day running, biking or hiking!
We are champions of sustainability and are world class at what we do. This comes by choosing to do the right thing and continuously aiming to do better. These guiding principles are embraced throughout our Retail Team.
Our AKtivism Values
We enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, see customers with our products in use, and win awards.
About the Role
You’ll work as part of a team of incredibly passionate, hardworking retail heroes. Your job is to share your knowledge and expertise to align job responsibilities, culture, and product knowledge so the team deliver amazing service every day.
About you
Perks of the job
Option to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, green travel commuting subsidy, 5 paid volunteer days.
Sustainability is written deeply in our DNA, and we promote a learning culture. We are passionate about encouraging personal career development through, weekly training, Adventure Training, and paid study support for professional qualifications.
About Alpkit
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
How to apply
If you think you can wear the Alpkit red t-shirt and want the opportunity to really help build & influence a store, then email your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com telling us why you think you’d fit in well at our Alpkit Inverness Store along with your CV.
We’ve got exciting news - we’re opening a brand-new store in! We’re on the hunt for our new team. We’re looking for an awesome Store Manager, an amazing Assistant Manager, a spectacular Key Holder, and a great bunch of Store Heroes. If you have a passion for the outdoors, come and help us Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
About the Team
Our customer facing staff play a huge part within Alpkit, which is why this is an exciting opportunity for the individual who loves the outdoors and wants to be part of a growing retailer, offering real service with personality.
We are champions of sustainability and are world class at what we do. This comes by choosing to do the right thing and continuously aiming to do better. These guiding principles are embraced throughout our Retail Team.
Our AKtivism Values
We enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, see customers with our products in use, win awards.
About the role
You will want to get involved with both Sonder and Retail and have a passion for the whole outdoors. This role will involve you being a duty manager in the absence of the Store Manager, so this is a great opportunity to develop your retail leadership skills and experience through taking on additional responsibilities and greater involvement in commercial decision making.
About you
Perks of the job
We truly believe that our success depends on the people that work here and the culture we create and are passionate about providing a place people want to work. We offer a range of benefits to enhance your career and wellbeing; ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, paid volunteer days and we are environmentally and sustainability conscious and we promote a learning culture.
About Alpkit
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences; Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
How to apply
We’re a bunch of do-ers that make things happen. We enjoy the industry and energy of work and find reward in what we achieve. If you feel this role is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your CV and covering to jobs@alpkit.com.
We’ve got exciting news - we’re opening a brand-new store in Inverness! We’re on the hunt for our new team. We’re looking for an awesome Store Manager, an amazing Assistant Manager, a spectacular Key Holder, and a great bunch of Store Heroes. If you have a passion for the outdoors, come and help us Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
What you’ll be doing
We’re on the lookout for a Keyholder to join our new Inverness Team, as a key holder for the store you will support the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager in driving sales and providing world class customer service. You will love being on the shop floor with our customers, whilst sharing your knowledge of the outdoors, advising on the best kit for the adventures they are going on and sharing the best of the local area.
The role will involve being responsible for opening and closing the store when the Store Manager/Assistant Store Manager are absent and assisting with deliveries.
The Store
We have a relaxed retail environment, but we work hard. Tea (and coffee for the non-believers) is always to hand, decent music is almost always on, and we are driven by our mission to support our customers “go nice places do good things”.
About Alpkit
Customer experience is placed at the heart of Alpkit operations. We strive to be with our customer throughout their journey with us. Our entire operation works to continually improve the Alpkit experience for our customers, from increasing product range and performance, to addressing customer concerns such as minimising plastic use and improving our internal systems to advance our service. We are a multi-award-winning adventure sports brand and retailer. Our pursuit of great customer experience is at the core of what we do.
Perks of the job
We truly believe that our success depends on the people that work here and the culture we create and are passionate about providing a place people want to work. We offer a range of benefits to enhance your career and wellbeing: ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends; life insurance; critical illness cover; cycle to work scheme; enhanced pension contributions, paid volunteer days; we are environmentally and sustainability conscious; and we promote a learning culture.
About us
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences; Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
How to apply
We’re a bunch of do-ers that make things happen. We enjoy the industry and energy of work and find reward in what we achieve so if you feel this role is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com.
We’ve got exciting news - we’re opening a brand-new store in Inverness! We’re on the hunt for our new team. We’re looking for an awesome Store Manager, an amazing Assistant Manager, a spectacular Key Holder, and a great bunch of Store Heroes. If you have a passion for the outdoors, come and help us Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
What you’ll be doing
We’re on the lookout for Store Heroes to join our brand new Alpkit Inverness team. As a member of the store team, you will support the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager in driving sales and providing world-class customer service. Do you love being on the shop floor with our customers? You'll love sharing your knowledge of the outdoors, advising on the best kit for our customers' adventures and sharing the best of the local area.
The Store
We have a relaxed retail environment, but we work hard. Tea (and coffee for the non-believers) is always to hand, decent music is almost always on, and we are driven by our mission to support our customers to Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
About Alpkit
We are a multi award-winning adventure sports brand and retailer. Our pursuit of great customer experience is at the core of what we do. We strive to be with our customer throughout their journey with us. Our entire operation works to continually improve the Alpkit experience for our customers, from increasing product range and performance, to addressing customer concerns such as minimising plastic use and improving our internal systems to advance our service.
Perks of the job
Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, ride to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, commuting subsidy for those that travel to work in a greener way! As a B Corp, we are proud to be environmentally and sustainability conscious. We’re passionate about our learning culture.
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Express yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
How to apply
If you are interested then we would love to hear from you; email your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com, clearly stating the position you are applying for.
What you’ll be doing
Do you love outdoor kit so much; you want to repair it and keep it going for longer? We’re on the lookout for a Repair Hero to join our Inverness Alpkit Team. As a member of the store team, you will support the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager by repairing customers kit in our designated repair stations. We take pride in providing world class customer service. We’re looking for your love of outdoor gear and repairing it. Ideally we’re looking for someone with sewing experience, or if you’re handy with a home sewing machine, get in touch!
The Store
We have a relaxed retail environment, but we work hard. Tea (and coffee for the non-believers) is always to hand, decent music is almost always on and we are driven by our mission to support our customers to Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
About Alpkit
Customer experience is placed at the heart of Alpkit operations. We strive to be with our customer throughout their journey with us. Our entire operation works to continually improve the Alpkit experience for our customers, from increasing product range and performance, to addressing customer concerns such as minimising plastic use and improving our internal systems to advance our service.
We are a multi award-winning adventure sports brand and retailer. Our pursuit of great customer experience is at the core of what we do.
Perks of the job
Ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, ride to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, commuting subsidy for those that travel to work in a greener way! As a B Corp, we are proud to be environmentally and sustainability conscious. We’re passionate about our learning culture.
We value all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Express yourself, join our community and help us “Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.”
How to apply
If you are interested then we would love to hear from you; email your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com, clearly stating the position you are applying for.
We are looking for someone to join our Metro Centre Store as Assistant Store Manager to provide exceptional customer service to help our customers Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.
You will want to get involved with both Sonder and Retail and have a passion for the whole outdoors. This role will involve you being a duty manager in the absence of the Store Manager, so this is a great opportunity to develop your retail leadership skills and experience through taking on additional responsibilities and greater involvement in commercial decision making.
About the Team
Our customer facing staff play a huge part within Alpkit, which is why this is an exciting opportunity for the individual who loves the outdoors and wants to be part of a growing retailer, offering real service with personality.
We are champions of being a sustainable brand and by choosing to do the right thing and aiming to do better continuously, we are world class at what we do; these guiding principles are embraced throughout our Retail Team.
We enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, see customers with our products in use, win awards.
About you
Perks of the job
We truly believe that our success depends on the people that work here and the culture we create and are passionate about providing a place people want to work. We offer a range of benefits to enhance your career and wellbeing; ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, paid volunteer days and we are environmentally and sustainability conscious and we promote a learning culture.
We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us “go nice places and do good things.”.
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
We’re a bunch of do-ers that make things happen. We enjoy the industry and energy of work and find reward in what we achieve so if you feel this role is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you jobs@alpkit.com
Speculative applications are always welcome and we make time to read every single one.
How to apply
Alpkit HR / Confidential
Unit 12-14 Oak House,
Engine Lane,
Newthorpe,
NG16 3QU
Email: jobs@alpkit.com
