Job: Customer Service Manager – EVELO

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Job Title *
Seeking an Bike-Savvy, Customer-Focused Service Manager for a Growing Electric Bike Company

Company/Organization *
EVELO Electric Bicycle Company
Your Email Address (for listing confirmation) * jobs@evelo.com

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-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.

We are growing quickly and expanding further in Seattle. As such, we are looking to fill a new Customer Service Expert position with a bright, ambitious individual who wants a job with direct impact and responsibility.

=== What’s The Job? ===

It’s simple! 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.
Provide test-rides to occasional walk-in customers and assist them with purchasing decisions.
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.
Help setup the new office to ensure it meets the company’s culture and mission of delivering amazing customer service and helping people improve lives.

=== What does a typical day at EVELO look like? ===

It certainly varies, but in a course of a day, you may deal with a:

– Customer who received a bike but has questions about assembly and wants someone to work them through it. So you help them out and then work with the rest of the team to put together ideas for a new video that can help customers assemble the bikes easier.

– Customer is experiencing an issue with the bike after riding it for 6 months and wants help to troubleshoot and resolve it. You get in touch with them, diagnose the issue and schedule a visit to a nearby bike shop to have the problem resolved under warranty.

– A bike gets returned to us because it was not the right fit for the customer. You inspect the product, fix any issues that may have come up, and prepare it as an Open-Box Bike for sale online or in-person (for occasional walk-in customers).

This is just a small sample of the issues that come in, but they give you a glimpse of what you’d be dealing with on a day-to-day basis.

It’s worth mentioning that 95% of all interactions with customers and shops will take place via phone and email, as most of our business is done all over the country. That said, we’re just opening up a new office location next to our warehouse, so you’ll be our first full-time team member at that location and you’ll get to work with the warehouse staff and some of our local team in-person.

=== The Logistics: ===

Location: Our current 10-person team is spread out around the country with headquarters in New York. However, we’re just opening up our West Coast office to be closer to the warehouse and logistics, so you’ll be working full-time out of that office.

Hours: This is a full time role from 8.30am to 5pm PST.

Compensation: The position starts at $36,000 per year and qualifies for the first raise in 6 months with good performance.

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 go to the following link and follow the instructions:
https://evelo.workable.com/jobs/142417/candidates/new

Thank you and we really look forward to hearing from you!

How to Apply *
To apply, please go to the following link and follow the instructions:
https://evelo.workable.com/jobs/142417/candidates/new

‘Sidewalk closed’: Portlanders fend for themselves amid building boom

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Rod Yoder, left, and Brian Davis are both looking for long-term solutions.
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)

Portland’s official policy is that when push comes to shove, making it safe and efficient to walk is a higher priority than making it safe and efficient to bike, which is a higher priority than making it safe and efficient to drive.

So why is it that when construction closes part of a street, sidewalks are so often the first to go?

On Thursday, a local engineering consultant led a walk through downtown Portland to show that it doesn’t have to work this way.

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Weekend Event Guide: Pet parade, public art, and slow pokes

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Dress up your dog and check out the Pets on Bikes ride Saturday.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

This menu of delicious rides and events is brought to you by our friends at Hopworks Urban Brewery. Their support makes BikePortland possible.

I’m not sure why but this weekend all the action is on Saturday.

For some reason that’s the day everyone has planned their rides. That might be smart because the forecast says it should be dry and Sunday is when the rain comes. If you know of any rides or events happening on Friday or Sunday let me know and I’ll add them to the guide.

What are your plans for the weekend? Whatever they are we hope they include a bike (or maybe you need a bike break? That’s fine too).

Have a great weekend!

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Metro releases plan for $50 million Hillsboro-to-Banks biking and walking path

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Blue: long-term.
(Image: Metro)

An arrow-straight railside trail between Hillsboro and Forest Grove would be one of the first phases of a planned bikeway through the heart of Washington County.

The Council Creek Regional Trail is a vision for a mostly off-road connection between Hillsboro, Forest Grove and Banks — which will also connect the westernmost stop in the MAX system with some of Oregon’s best rural bike routes, including the beloved Banks-Vernonia Trail and a possible future connection to the Pacific Coast.

When we last checked in on the planning process, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance was urging planners to choose the shorter, straighter “Rail 1” route between Hillsboro and Banks rather than a winding creekside alternative to the north.

According to the master plan published last month, the straight railside route was chosen, meaning that this is also likely to become, someday, a popular transportation connection west of Hillsboro.

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Two new bikes stolen from outside Southwest Bicycle

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Front of Southwest Bicycle on Multnomah Blvd.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Another day, another story to share about bike theft.

This time it happened in southwest Portland, far away from our usual reports of the daily thievery that plagues the central city. And it happened at a bike shop.

Nate Gibson, an employee of Southwest Bicycle on the corner of Multnomah and Capitol Hwy, says someone took two new bikes they had on display in their parking lot right outside their front door. This isn’t Nate’s first brush with bike theft. You might recall his heroic role in wresting back a high-end racing bike from a thief this past summer.

Nate tells us the theft happened last night as he was closing up the shop. Here’s his version of events:

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ODOT completes new path, other changes to North Denver Ave

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ODOT has finished up their big project on Denver Avenue north of downtown Kenton. Check out the announcement below and stay tuned to our Front Page for photos and thoughts soon…

ODOT, Kenton mark completion of North Denver Avenue area improvements

The Oregon Department of Transportation is inviting neighbors to help celebrate the completion of its Oregon 99W: N. Victory Blvd. – N. Argyle St. Project during a short event at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 the Paul Bunyan Plaza in Kenton, 8433 N. Interstate Ave.

During the event, participants will hear about the project from ODOT and neighborhood leaders. Project staff will then provide walking and bike tours of the newly improved facilities.

“We want to thanks the neighbors and local businesses for their patience and cooperation during the construction,” said ODOT Region 1 Manager Rian Windsheimer. “These improvements will contribute to the growing vitality of Kenton and will create a safer experience in the corridor for all users,” he said.

The improvements include:

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Milwaukie carves a new path: widespread support for better biking

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Plans for downtown Milwaukie’s bike network.
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One year after Milwaukie voters elected two vocally bike-friendly politicians to their city council, Milwaukie is lining up some significant investments.

The biggest new one in the works, a crosstown neighborhood greenway on Monroe Street, will get its first public meeting at city council on Nov. 3.

“We have consensus on council to make this a top priority,” Milwaukie City Councilor Karin Power said in an interview Wednesday about the city’s work on an “all-inclusive bike-, pedestrian- and street-safety program.”

Milwaukie doesn’t have a citizen biking or pedestrian advisory committee. But public support for biking and walking improvements has led to something interesting: the city’s public safety committee has broadened its focus and is now taking a lead role on infrastructure planning.

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Woman walking near Tilikum Bridge suffers serious injuries in collision with bicycle rider

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Carole Barkley (before the collision).
(Photo: David Loftus)

It has happened. And I hate to say that I’m not surprised.

On Sunday October 11th, Carole Barkley was hit by a man riding a bike near the Tilikum Bridge. The woman was walking her dog (the dog was not injured) near the west end of the new bridge when the collision occurred.

We received the email below last week from David Loftus, Carol’s husband (emphases mine):

“My wife was hit, hard, by a cyclist near the west end of Tilikum Crossing bridge on Sunday morning about 9 a.m. The collision knocked her down and put her in the hospital for more than two days with four broken ribs, a separated shoulder, a chipped vertebra, lots of cuts and abrasions, and attacks of vertigo.

She was walking our six-pound dog (who was fortunately unhurt), and specifically waited for the pedestrian crossing signal at the east end of the Orange Line MAX platform. Presumably the cyclist had a red light, but my suspicion is that he wasn’t looking for a signal under the presumption that he’d passed the big intersection at Moody and Meade and was free to climb the bridge heading east.

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Bike lane blockage (and what you can do about it)

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We’ve all seen it. Probably dozens of times. A sign or other hazard placed in a bike lane by a construction crew doing official work in the public right-of-way.

On Monday, BikePortland subscriber Kim Isaacson saw a particularly egregious case of this. Kim was riding south in the bike lane on SW Broadway. As he rolled toward the I-405 overcrossing at SW Jackson he came across a large reader-board sign. The sign was completely blocking the bike lane.

Being the well-informed citizen that he is, Kim took a few photos and emailed the City of Portland as soon as possible. To help ensure her issue would get some attention, Kim emailed not only safe@portlandoregon.gov, but also the city’s permitting manager and PBOT spokesman Dylan Rivera. He also cc’d BikePortland.

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City pushes Clinton diverter proposal to 32nd, sets new open house

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The issue on Clinton.
(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)

Here’s the latest on the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s effort to decrease the amount of people driving on SE Clinton…

A trial traffic diverter is now set to be installed at Southeast Clinton Street and 32nd Avenue, instead of Clinton and 29th as first proposed. In addition to the east-west diverter, it’ll use semi-diverters to prevent turns onto Clinton from 32nd while allowing traffic on Clinton to turn either north or south.

That’s in addition to the trial diverter planned at Clinton and 17th.

That revised proposal has raised objections from some neighbors, just as the initial one did. While some nearby residents are reportedly organizing to oppose the latest plan — possibly at a mostly unrelated town hall this evening attended by Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick and Mayor Charlie Hales — the city has delayed installation to allow a second open house early next month.

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New 78-unit apartment will include downtown Beaverton’s first bike wash

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The Signal will offer extensive bike parking and car parking spaces will be optional.
(Rendering courtesy Metro)

Beaverton is looking to get a slice of Portland’s walkable-bikeable apartment boom.

Tomorrow morning, developers and city officials will break ground at the vacant lot at Southwest First Street and Angel Avenue in Beaverton’s streetcar-era Old Town neighborhood, officially kicking off construction of The Signal.

The four-story building will be about two blocks from Beaverton High School, half a mile from the Beaverton Transit Center and 2.5 miles from Nike headquarters.

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