TITLE: BRAND AMBASSADOR STATUS: PART-TIME, NON-EXEMPT REPORTS TO: AREA SALES MANAGER THE BIG PICTURE

The Modern Times Brand Ambassador is responsible for helping build brand awareness across their assigned market, including bars, restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, beer festivals, entertainment venues, and all other places where Modern Times' brand needs to be. As one of the important and often first faces our fans will interact with, it is the Brand Ambassador's responsibility to represent Modern Times in the most informative way possible while providing an outstanding service experience for every person. The Brand Ambassador reports to the Market Development Manager and/or the Area Sales Manager and must share Modern Times' commitments to quality, safety, business ethics, and continuous innovation.

THE EVERYDAY VIEW

• Interface with customers and accounts as a representative of the brand.
• Assist with all On & Off-Premise execution, including key Chain accounts
• Complete monthly surveys of key off-premise accounts
• Merchandise existing products and maintain product displays
• Conduct Adult Beverage (alcohol) demonstrations
• Generate deep brand awareness and positive product passion for Modern Times brands
• Share passion for all things craft beer and coffee, as well as the ability to taste, describe and evaluate qualities and characteristics
• Continually learn and retain detailed, precise, often scientific, information which you must present in an interesting, fun and engaging manner to groups of all sizes and levels of craft coffee and beer knowledge
• Provide timely, accurate post-event reporting and communicate ideas for improved program development
• Set-up, attend and break down all festival materials for outside events
• Clean, and perform occasional maintenance on Jockey Box
• Interact in a friendly, enthusiastic, energetic, and outgoing manner with management, clients, and consumers in any setting
• Enforce all applicable alcohol laws and rules
• Be capable of spotting future opportunities for Modern Times through consumer dialogue and event activation
• Act as a brand ambassador at all times
• Other tasks as needed

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 1-year related work experience required
• LEAD/TIPS certification is required
• Preferred Cicerone beer certification
• Comprehensive knowledge of Modern Times Beer 
• Professional appearance and demeanor
• Preferred retail/customer service industry experience 
• Preferred Bar/service industry experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, growing company
• Ability and willingness to work evenings, holidays, and weekends 
• Able to work independently and as a motivated team player
• A willingness to work weekends and evenings
• Travel required for off-site scheduled events
• Working personal vehicle required
• Must adhere to company's policies and procedures

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must be 21 years of age or older at the time of application
• Able to pass a post-offer, pre-employment background check, and DMV check
• Able to stand, walk, and be on your feet for prolonged periods
• Able to read and follow written English instructions
• Able to regularly twist, turn, kneel, climb, stoop, bend, crawl, lift, and carrying supplies and equipment weighing up to 55 pounds using appropriate techniques and tools
• Able to maneuver packages of any weight above 75 pounds with appropriate equipment and/or assistance 
• Abe to move 165-pounds, using appropriate techniques and tools 
• Able to work in a factory/production environment that may be loud, slick, humid, cold, and hot
• Able to work in indoor and outdoor environment with moderate noise, sometimes slippery floors
• Able to comply with and enforce all health, safety, and personal hygiene policies and standards
• Able to comply with safe chemical handling procedures, including personal protective equipment such as gloves and goggles

 Applications Accepted Until This Role Is Filled

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND PERKS ELIGIBILITY

• Modern Times is a partially employee-owned company, with 30% of our equity held in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), guaranteeing employees the opportunity to earn equity in the company over time
• Eligible to participate in 401(k)
• Radical beer and coffee perks

ABOUT MODERN TIMES

Modern Times began as a 30bbl production brewery in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego. Modern Times is named after a beautifully crazy utopian community founded in 1850, and many of our beers are named after real utopian experiments or mythological utopias. Today, we're distributed throughout California, Nevada, Arizona, Maui, the Pacific Northwest, and select international markets. We operate a tasting room at the brewery, as well as in San Diego's North Park community, and opened brewery/restaurant locations in Portland, Los Angeles, and Encinitas in 2018, Santa Barbara and Oakland in 2019, and Anaheim in 2020. We brewed our first batch on May 18th, 2013; our beer went on tap for the first time on June 24th, 2013; we held the soft opening for the Lomaland Fermentorium tasting room on August 9th, 2013; and our Grand Opening was September 7th, 2013.

In the summer of 2017, we became California's first-ever employee-owned brewery, with 30% of the company now owned by our employees and the goal of 100% employee ownership in the future. We think that's pretty radical.

Learn more at www.moderntimesbeer.com

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Modern Times Beer strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.