Job Title *
Sales Associate
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Athletes Lounge
Job Description *
We are looking for a sales rep to work with our Women’s lines of clothing and bicycles. This is a full time position. If you’re getting ready to go back to school in the Fall and need something for the summer, send us your resume. I would be willing to hire for the summer or long term.
How to Apply *
Please send your resume to gary@athleteslounge.com
What did cycling routes in Portland look like over 40 years ago? That’s something we’d never known until coming across this “From here to there by bicycle” map.
Leaders of the all-volunteer transportation activist group Bike Loud PDX were at this week’s Oregon Active Transportation Summit with a message you don’t usually hear at those type of events: Portland ain’t all that.
Bike Loud PDX passed out a two-page flyer to summit attendees encouraging them to not only learn about Portland’s success but also “talk about the not-so-cool infrastructure we have too.”
Here’s the text from the flyer:
“Ubiquitous mobility” is one step closer to reality in Portland.
On Saturday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that the City of Portland has been selected as a finalist for a $40 million ‘Smart City Challenge’ grant. Portland’s big idea is known as “Ubiquitous Mobility” or UB Mobile PDX. The concept is to create access to our myriad transportation options that is so integrated that everyone can easily plug into it. The city says it will, “Show what is possible when communities use technology to connect transportation assets into an interactive network” and that it “puts forward bold, data-driven ideas to improve lives by making transportation safer, easier, and more reliable.”
Imagine opening up a mobile app to find (and pay for if necessary) the best trip option available for your specific needs. Whether it’s finding a Biketown bike, hopping on a TriMet bus, renting a bike through Spinlister, calling a Lyft driver, or whatever. The same app would also enable users to pay for parking spots and even the pay-per-mile gas tax that might someday be an option in Oregon. And that’s just the start. We took a deep dive into the city’s grant application last month.
Here’s one way to think about the political battle over housing in growing cities, spelled out Monday at an Oregon Active Transportation Summit panel: it’s got three main interest groups.
One group is social-justice advocates and tenants. These people are generally interested in keeping prices lower one way or another, especially for the lowest-income people.
One group is environmentalists, businesses and the development industry. These people are (for various reasons) generally interested in increasing the number of people living in the city.
The third group is a highly active subset of single-family homeowners. These people are generally interested in maintaining or increasing the value of their property, especially while keeping things the way they were when they bought it.
BikePortland is covering the Oregon Active Transportation Summit today and tomorrow. We’ve been tweeting updates via #ATSummit and you might have caught our previous post with a recap of the action from the opening speech by Lynn Peterson and a few of the morning sessions.
Between speeches and panel discussions, I try to talk with as many people as possible. The summit serves a wide variety of interests — from agency directors to planners, citizen activists to non-profit staff and volunteers. It’s fun to catch up with such a diverse group and find out about the interesting projects and programs they’re working on. Below are just a few of the folks I ran into…
The “shared vision” of transportation reform advocates was literally on display at the kickoff of the Oregon Active Transportation Summit this morning. The event, organized by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, is being held at the Sentinel hotel in downtown Portland today and tomorrow.
I’m covering the action for the first part of the day, then our News Editor Michael Anderson will take over in the afternoon.
The summit started with an opening speech by Lynn Peterson, the former transportation policy advisor to former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber who was recently forced out of her position as director of Washington’s Department of Transportation.
Job Title *
Service Manager / Sales Manager for Growing E-Bike Company
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EVELO
Job Description *
Well, hello there!
We’re so glad that you’ve come across this ad, as it may be the start of a beautiful [work] relationship!
Does this sound like you:
– Do you have an interest in cycling, green technology and ways that can get more people to drive less and bike more?
– Do you truly enjoy helping people, solving problems and believe that the right interaction with a customer can make a world of difference?
– Are you experienced with working on bikes or have a passion for working all things mechanical?
– Do you want to be a part of a small, close knit start up team where your contributions are valued, appreciated and make a real impact?
If the answer is yes, then by all means – keep reading!
=== Who We Are ===
We are EVELO (www.evelo.com), a New York & Seattle-based electric bicycle company that is focused on developing ways to make cycling more accessible to a wider range of the population by removing barriers that keep people from cycling in the first place (hills, age, fitness levels or even arriving to work sweaty).
We are fanatically focused on delivering a wonderful customer experience to everybody who comes in touch with our company, as we believe that a friendly, personal and emphatic customer service is really what makes the customers happy and companies achieve greatness.
Our headquarters are in New York, but we are growing quickly and expanding further in the Seattle area. As such, we are hiring on a rolling basis for Service Managers and Sales Managers positions.
We are looking for bright, ambitious individuals who want a job with direct impact and responsibility to join our team.
=== What’s The Job? ===
There are two positions available: Service Manager and Sales Manager.
Please do note that we cross-train everyone and do expect that every team member is capable of jumping in and handling any role within the short-term when things get busy.
If you join as a Sales Manager, your role is to educate our potential customers and help them feel comfortable working with EVELO.
This position includes (but not limited to):
Handling incoming sales inquiries via email, phone and live chat.
Following up with potential customers on an ongoing basis to see if there’s anything we can do for them.
Educating potential customers and help them find the best solution for their needs.
Working closely with our marketing team to coordinate various promotions and sales.
Proactively looking for ways to grow sales within the company.
Provide test-rides to occasional walk-in customers and assist them with purchasing decisions.
If you join as a Service Manager, your role is to help our customers have a fantastic experience with the bike they purchase and all of their interactions with us.
This position includes (but not limited to):
Handle inbound support inquiries by email and phone and follow up with customers to ensure that the problems get successfully resolved.
Work directly with customers and partner shops to troubleshoot and resolve problems,
Manage the refurbishing process for bikes that they returned to us – inspect them, fix them if needed and repackage for sale as an Open-Box Bike.
Recruit and engage other bike shops around the country to help with various service issues, as they come up.
Communicate issues, ideas for improvement and other suggestions to the rest of the team so they can be implemented.
Check in at the warehouse on a weekly basis to ensure that the operations are running smoothly and serve as a liaison between our staff around the country and the warehouse operations.
=== The Logistics: ===
Location: Newly opened office/workshop is located in Kent, WA.
Hours: This is a full time role from 9am to 6pm PST.
Compensation: Based on experience. Three (3) weeks paid vacation is also provided to all full-time employees, activated after 3 months of employment.
=== Are You Interested? ===
Wonderful! If you’ve made it this far, we’d love to hear from you. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter and answer the questions presented at the end.
Thank you and we really look forward to hearing from you!
How to Apply *
Please go to https://evelo.workable.com/jobs/142417/candidates/new and follow the instructions.
Here are the bike-related links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:
Bike share safety: Bike-share bikes are involved in 35 percent fewer collisions with vehicles than operator-owned bikes.
Exclusionary zoning: A New Jersey suburb is blocking construction of a mosque by requiring its parking lot to be twice as big as a comparable church’s.
Youth perspective: Matlock Grossman, the 11-year-old Angelino whose testimony on behalf of a road diet went viral last fall, has written a persuasive op-ed about transportation for the L.A. Times.
Multnomah County has erected work zone barriers at the eastern entrance of the northern path of the Hawthorne Bridge. Maintenance crews are repairing damage to the railing inflicted by a person who failed to maintain control of their automobile and rammed into it.
The bike lanes on the new Sellwood Bridge will be more robust than previously expected.
When Jules Bailey served in the state legislature, he was usually known as one of biking’s best friends in Salem. Now he’s running for mayor.