Careers at Flora Grubb Gardens
Want to spend your days surrounded by plants, collaborating with other creative, plant-obsessed people? Want to develop your skills, expertise, and vision in a beautiful garden environment?
At Flora Grubb Gardens, we’re always finding new ways to impart our love for gardens to our customers, practice our art in the medium of plants, and make our store an inspiring place to shop, learn, and enjoy nature.
With so many passionate designers and gardeners among our staff and customers, our nursery has become a hub of creativity in the garden world. Many former employees have gone on to further exciting success, starting their own landscape companies and plant shops, publishing gorgeous books, and leaving their unique imprint on the California landscape.
If you’d really love to come work in our store, we want to hear from you! Email your resume and a brief cover letter to jobs@floragrubb.com.
Current Openings
SF - Sales Associate
32 hours to 40 hours per week
Weekend shifts required
Email resumes to jobs@floragrubb.com
Right now we’re looking for an experienced customer service pro to work at our cash register in our San Francisco store. You’ll spend your day in a beautiful, bright, open-air garden setting. You’ll ring people up, answer tons of questions, help connect our customers to the appropriate salespeople and/or services, answer the phone, keep our register station clean and well-organized, and spread good feelings to everyone you interact with.
The cashier at Flora Grubb Gardens is at the center of our customer experience. Our wonderful customers are the most important part of our business, and it will be your job to ensure that all your interactions with customers express how important they are to us.
We’ll count on you to be the champion of the processes we’ve developed, and to help us constantly improve them.
You’ll need to know a lot about plants and gardens. At the register, you’ll get a lot of practical questions about plant care, so you’ll need to be able to answer them authoritatively, and also admit quickly when you don’t have the answer and find someone else on staff who does. You won’t need to start out with advanced plant identification skills, but experience as a professional gardener or landscaper would be great.
Surrounded by plants and plant experts in our nursery, you’ll learn something new every day. Through formal training, conversation with knowledgeable coworkers, and lots of hands-on experience, our Sales Associates consistently improve their skills in plant ID and plant care. As Sales Associates acquire garden design skills and plant expertise, they are promoted to Sales Specialists and beyond. Many of our long-term staff working at every level of our business started here as Sales Associates. We are committed to the personal and professional growth of our staff members.
SF - Sales Specialist
16 hours to 32 hours per week
Weekend shifts required
Email resumes to jobs@floragrubb.com
Our Sales Specialists are passionately interested in the study of horticulture, design and people. We’re looking for applicants who will collaborate with our customers to create beautiful and sustainable gardens all day, every day.
Sales Specialists spend most of their time outside in our garden-like nursery providing a warm welcome to all who enter the store. Our customers are happy to be here, and working with them is a pleasure. Our style is to be ready and available to them when needed and otherwise unobtrusive. We are passionate about plants, and it’s our mission to share our inspiration and enthusiasm with our customers. We’re experts in directing customers to the plants and other garden amenities that best match their hopes and dreams for their garden space.
In addition to designing gardens with our customers, Sales Specialists are responsible for communicating about all products and services offered by Flora Grubb Gardens. They help our customers through the whole FGG experience, from greeting to check-out, and also support customers on the phone and via email.
To be successful in this role, an applicant should be a lover of plants and gardens and an outstanding communicator who thrives in a busy retail environment and works well with others to achieve shared goals. Our Sales Specialists are also responsible for anticipating our customers’ needs, selling garden supplies, and ensuring purchase and fulfillment accuracy, so experience in project management and strong attention to detail are requirements for this role.
Candidates must have at least one year of professional experience working with plants in either a garden nursery setting or in garden design or maintenance. Some formal horticultural study is preferred. Professional experience with staff supervision will be highly valued as well.
Through formal training, camaraderie with other plant experts, and time spent surrounded by plants here at the nursery, Sales Specialists can expect to consistently improve their skills in garden design, plant identification, and plant care. We’re committed to the personal and professional growth of our staff members, and we encourage our teams to support one another by sharing their expertise.
LA - Sales Associate
32 hours to 40 hours per week
Weekend shifts required
Email resumes to jobs@floragrubb.com
Right now we’re looking for an experienced customer service pro to work at our cash register in our Marina del Rey store. You’ll spend your day in a beautiful, bright, open-air garden setting. You’ll ring people up, answer tons of questions, help connect our customers to the appropriate salespeople and/or services, answer the phone, keep our register station clean and well-organized, and spread good feelings to everyone you interact with.
The cashier at Flora Grubb Gardens is at the center of our customer experience. Our wonderful customers are the most important part of our business, and it will be your job to ensure that all your interactions with customers express how important they are to us.
We’ll count on you to be the champion of the processes we’ve developed, and to help us constantly improve them.
You’ll need to know a lot about plants and gardens. At the register, you’ll get a lot of practical questions about plant care, so you’ll need to be able to answer them authoritatively, and also admit quickly when you don’t have the answer and find someone else on staff who does. You won’t need to start out with advanced plant identification skills, but experience as a professional gardener or landscaper would be great.
Surrounded by plants and plant experts in our nursery, you’ll learn something new every day. Through formal training, conversation with knowledgeable coworkers, and lots of hands-on experience, our Sales Associates consistently improve their skills in plant ID and plant care. As Sales Associates acquire garden design skills and plant expertise, they are promoted to Sales Specialists and beyond. Many of our long-term staff working at every level of our business started here as Sales Associates. We are committed to the personal and professional growth of our staff members.