Round Up: 13 Bike Industry Jobs Available Right Now
We thought we'd round up some of the more awesome-looking job opportunities in the bike industry that we've seen lately. The ones where you're most likely to be able to jump out for a ride at lunch or get to geek over bike-related things all day.
Don't see anything that you're interested in? Many of these companies have multiple jobs posted on their websites, so we'd recommend doing a deep dive into the career section on each company's website. Still nothing? Lots of companies will have a jobs@ email address for you to send your resume to and they'll reach out if something comes up that is suited to your skillset. Happy hunting!
Hunt Wheels & Privateer Bikes
MTB Brand Manager
 | The Rider Firm USA seeks an exceptional candidate to fill the role of MTB US Brand Manager. In this full-time role, you will work in person 5 days per week in our Boulder HQ, bridging the worlds of product development, engineering, supply chain and marketing. |
Salary Range: $50,000 - $65,000
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International Police Mountain Bike Association
Executive Director
| The International Police Mountain Bike Association (IPMBA) seeks an exceptional executive to lead this dynamic association of over 2500 public safety cyclists. We provide standardized, specialized training to public safety personnel throughout the United States and Canada. |
Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000
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Berd Spokes
Independent Sales Representative
| Berd is seeking experienced, proven dealer reps for all markets covering the USA. |
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Specialized
Rider Care Representative
| We’re looking for a Rider Care Representative to join Specialized UK, providing first-class customer service support to our retail partners and fellow riders. |
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SRAM
Graphic Designer
| The Graphic Designer conceptualizes, develops, and implements visual design solutions that meet communication strategies and reflect SRAM’s brand identity. The communications are implemented in a wide range of graphic applications including print, environment, social media, digital, motion, soft goods, and emerging media. |
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Madison
Warranty Technician
| We are now recruiting for an additional Warranty Technician to join our Warranty Team based at Knowlhill, Milton Keynes to help us maintain our high standards and to be part of our continuing success story. Reporting to the Warranty & GSR Manager, the successful candidate will have experience in managing own workload, with responsibility of warranty review and decision making. He/she will need to be an enthusiastic team player with a proven track record of achieving their goals. |
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Muc-Off
Videographer/Photographer
| As the business continues to grow at a fast pace, we have a new position for a Videographer/Photographer who will support our global bicycle & powersports content team, at our Head Office in Poole, Dorset. The Videographer/Photographer is responsible for maintaining a high standard and level of content for our bicycle & powersports division. Supporting the Head of Content and team in delivering content on time and in full, this role is an exciting blend of hands-on camera operation, to editing and planning. The role would suit an individual with all round production skills and capabilities. |
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Forbidden Bikes
Bookkeeper
| Forbidden Bike Company is growing and looking to add a bookkeeper to the team! Our ideal candidate will be responsible for timely and accurate processing of payments, expenditures, and maintaining the accuracy of the accounting system. |
Salary Range: $25-28/hr
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Trek
Prototype Technician - Fabricator Welder
| Join Trek Bikes as a Prototype Machinist and Fabricator Welder, where you'll play a pivotal role in creating high-tolerance prototypes from conception to completion. |
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Shimano
Brand Coordinator
| As Brand Coordinator at Shimano, you would facilitator between Sales/ Marketing/Product teams and the Customer / Consumer contributing to the execution of an excellent marketing plan. We are looking for someone who is proactive in approach. One who can bring about new ideas and implement them and is willing to work as a team. |
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Santa Cruz
Solutions Architect
| You will join a collaborative ERP team focused on continually improving our SAP S/4 HANA and SAC platforms and also be a part of a green field implementation for our sister company, Cervelo. You will work directly with the Finance and Controlling subject matter experts and Business Systems Analysts to align on system and process improvement opportunities and priorities. This will involve managing demand for new capabilities, process improvements, data quality, and leveraging application software capabilities. |
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YT
Warranty Coordinator
| As a warranty coordinator you will play a critical role in providing post purchase services to our end consumer. This includes troubleshooting technical issues, processing warranty claims, as well as handling logistics and documentation. This is a customer facing role with a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction through professional communication and efficient task processing. |
Salary Range: $20-23/hr
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SRAM
Regulatory Compliance Engineer
| Due to SRAM’s advancing presence in the E-Bike market, we are looking for a Regulatory Compliance Engineer at one of our offices in Germany to support us with the ongoing and newly emerging tasks and challenges. |
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what is that - through headset cable routing?! $10k fine!!
Bike Industry.... do better.
smartasset.com/taxes/colorado-paycheck-calculator#RPjF2lp0hg
Average 1bdrm in Boulder is $1750.
www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/city/colorado/boulder
Cost of living expenses if you live pretty frugal.
Utilities - $150
Health Insurance - $200
Food - $400
Misc - $300
After paying all that, you still have roughly 1k left. Not that bad if you are single. You definitely won't be living like a king, but you won't be struggling that bad. If you are trying to raise a family, ya, no way.
I do agree that asking for a bachelors degree and 3 yrs of experience with that salary range is way off. Should be low 80's to high 90's.
And we haven't even begun to factor in bike expenses..........
+ Student Loan - $300 (low to mid range for national average)
+ Vehicle Loan - $200 (even for a modest vehicle with low rate)
+ Vehicle Insurance - $181 (Colorado average)
+ Vehicle Fuel - $100
+ 401K / Savings - $200
Leaves $65, or if you want to include that with 'Misc' then you'll have a whopping $365.
Sure, someone could have played their cards right and paid for school up front and be driving an efficient mpg vehicle with low insurance that is paid for, but it's more likely that the ideal candidate has student loans and needed a loan for a reliable vehicle.
Again, just doubling down on agreeing with you and others that the pay should be higher for the requirements and expectation to be a Brand Manager, that's no entry level role.
Man, nothing like requiring your employees to have to have two jobs because you refuse to pay them
I know little about skiing, have only done it a few times and am truly curious.
two things can be true at the same time- boulder is expensive AND someone can make it work at $57-58k starting wage
Presuming your partner takes care of the expenses/accounting as you seem very detached from current world expenses, haha!
This wage in Boulder is ridiculous. You’ll never get a strong candidate to apply at that wage.
Is this why RTT’s are so popular?
www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/San-Antonio
www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/Medford
"We are looking for a dynamic, energetic, and innovative brand manager or marketer who has 3+ years experience in public relations, email marketing, print and digital advertisement, sports marketing, event marketing, content creation, and social media marketing."
It's a fancy name for social media person. Go to events, set up a tent, post on insta, send out spam email etc. You all have industry jobs confused with real world jobs.
Note also that a BS degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field (or should I say, BS Marketing Degree?) is appreciated but not required.
The applicant pool for this type of job is massive and will contain plenty of 18-to-25-year-olds who won't mind (and perhaps might even be excited about) the salary on offer.
- pinkbike comment section
The rider firm is UK based. $65k USD is £50k GBP. That would be adequate for that role most places in the UK, but doesn't really cut it in Boulder, CO.
In Boulder you're not going to get an experienced brand manager for that and I think that's reflected in the fact they're asking for relatively little experience. They're probably hoping to get a young person who hasn't held that role before but is smart and who can cope on that salary (because they'll share a house with housemates and have no dependents etc). Young person gets "brand manager" on their CV and can step into a significantly better paying role after 1-3 years. Hunt gets a decent person for cheap-ish. It's not criminal imo, they will get what they pay for. At least they're advertising the salary.
Your take-home, assuming you have zero deductions for insurance, would be about $4k. This leaves you $1,600 a month to survive from. Food, clothing, gas, car insurance.
You'd essentially be living paycheck to paycheck
I'm a big Cane Creek fan, gotta love an employee-owned company and I have a few longtime friends over there. Currently I'm riding Reeb and Esker MTBs, buncha solid guys in leadership and on the ground at both brands. I try to wear 7mesh and TLD from knowing folks at those companies. I would have recommended Nukeproof as well given the team over there but hard to say what the next crew will be like.
And then they wonder how nearly all of them got into the positions they have been in for the past year.
Basically I'll command them for being upfront about salary. If other did the sames, salaries are more likely to go up. I'd blame all other brands first because of that.
youtu.be/uSlB4eznXoA?si=uAXQVig7kBbD0liV
I'm on the "soft skill" ladder as well. Senior Staff Engineers can very easily say 550k-750k in a year.
I thought it would be about on the same level as here in EU.
Our living standard is supposed to be pretty high, yet with our 50+% taxes on salary + 21% VAT we can more than comfortably live from a salary like that?
"To qualify for this very basic role you'll need a university degree and 5 years of experience working in a related field. You'll need to be motivated to make whatever personal sacrifice necessary to help achieve the companies financial goals, as we live by a work hard, play hard philosophy and we expect you to do the same. Got that, dweeb?"
Also MTB Industry:
"Oh and btw, we can only pay you like $20/h. You're cool with that though, right? Just think off all the employee benefit discounts."
Straight-up ridiculous.
Everyone i know who works in bike shops in my area is making 17-20/hr, and there are no shortage of applicants with college degrees, because it's a 'cool' job and they get bike stuff for cheap. it's a vanity thing. a lot of lifestyle/outdoors jobs are. they are for the idle wealthy folks who don't need livable wages.
and they also have family money so when they get bored they will just go home and work for dad's office.
These roles require a very good understanding of both the technical systems and data platforms as well as business SOP and functions.
It's a very interesting job but can be extremely frustrating at times since it can feel that not much progress is done as it requires a lot of continuous improvements, communications and alignment rather than massive changes. It the end it's a bit like Himalayan mountaineering.
The trek welder/fabricator one was the most interesting
Thank god I don’t have a corporate job. The bullshit overfloweth.
Does that mean you have to use your brain at work?
But…….lots of business owners choose to make money by $h!tt!ng on their workers instead. It’s sad. It’s nasty. It’s the fundamental problem with how we practice capitalism.
*Heavy sarcasm here
Cause. Had to change my full time job.
If I could make a living fixing bikes. I would.
But in reality. I can’t.
Of all the readers that ever applied to any bike industry related job offer how many of you:
-ever got answered
-got refused
-got an interview
-actually got the job but it sucked
-got the job but it didn't suck
Requirements were pretty brutal, and would have been a total grind. If I was 22 it would have been the dream job but now at 30 starting a family it would completely suck. Still glad I followed through and went through the process.
“You will live in the storeroom 7 days a week in our Boulder HQ”
Now that 65k a year makes sense.
The best thing for bike industry is own your own shop and work Full time elsewhere(im currently doing this, yes its a heap of work but Dealer costs are awesome for me)
I spent 15 years working there, and can count on a hand and a half the number of colleagues who actually lived there. The last job it was 1 out of the 23 in that office.
I’d say for an entry level position it isn’t too bad. They’re not hiring engineers. Reading the actual job description though…oof…it should say “we don’t want to pay an outside PR firm and Ad Agency, so maybe you can do all of that for way less then we would otherwise have to pay”.
I left the industry not too long ago and I was working for one of the big 3
The pay was laughable and the ladder to climb within was even more so.
So glad to be done with that shit.
If anyone from SRAM reads this, I am a regulatory compliance engineer, I have been putting industrial, medical and wireless devices on the market everywhere in the world (global market access) and I have also been a registered safety inspector for TUV SUD in the past. I would be glad to get in touch with you, DM if you are out there.
I'd worked in film for 20years.
*Disclaimer: you may have to eat out of bins.
jobs.growcyclingfoundation.org
www.sram.com/en/company/careers/current-openings
www.yt-industries.com/YT-Jobs
santacruzbicycles.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/santacruzbicycles
shimano.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Shimano
outside.breezy.hr