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 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 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles - Display Specialist
32 to 40 hours a week
Email resumes to jobs@floragrubb.com
Right now we’re looking for an enthusiastic, strong, motivated person to join our team of Display Builders. These are the folks that take the merchandise that arrives at our door and transform it into the wonderland that is Flora Grubb Gardens. To excel in this job you’ll need a background in design or art. We’re looking for someone who loves working with plants and takes great joy in making things beautiful. We welcome folks with experience building displays in any retail environment, or in garden design, event design, interior design, set design or other kinds of environmental design.
Candidates for this role will need to be strong, fit, and enthusiastic about working outside on their feet much of the time. The display team moves around a lot of heavy merchandise all day, so you’ll need to be able to lift at least 50 pounds regularly.
Our Display Builders assist in creating a smooth and beautiful shopping experience. They stock and organize shelves on the sales floor and straighten and clean displays to make them neat, appealing, and easy to shop. They also help with unpacking, pricing, and various other merchandising tasks.
You’ll work closely with co-workers to coordinate merchandise movement, so a friendly and clear communication style is a must. We’d love to hear from you if you are detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills. The display team keeps things orderly in all areas of the store and frequently handles situations with many moving parts. An ability to collaborate and delegate across teams is essential.
Los Angeles - 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 gardens, 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 interacting with our customers. We support customers both outside in our garden-like nursery and remotely. We are passionate about plants and gardens, and it’s our mission to share our inspiration and enthusiasm with our customers. Wether in person or remotely, we’re experts in directing customers to the plants and other garden amenities that best match their hopes and dreams for their garden space.
To be successful in this role, an applicant should be a lover of plants and gardens and an outstanding communicator who is very comfortable using technology and thrives in a busy retail environment working with others to achieve shared goals. Our Sales Specialists are responsible for anticipating our customers’ needs and providing excellent service all the way through to delivery, so experience in project management and strong attention to detail are requirements for this role. We use technology to support all of our work and work with our customers remotely every day. A willingness and ability to use technology is a must. In addition to using our point to sale and inventory management software, you will work in our customer relationship management program and create simple presentations.
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. Professional experience with staff supervision in any context 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.
Current Openings in San Francisco
San Francisco - Flexible Part Time (shift based)
Part Time “extra hands” Crew
Email resumes to jobs@floragrubb.com
You’ll need to be very strong, have a great attention to detail, and be enthusiastic about providing excellent service. You’ll work with our crew both in our store and on jobs outside of the store in various venues for our rental clients. You will work with our crew to accurately load orders of plants and take them to our customers rental locations, set them up, and go and retrieve them later. We can offer stable weekend work along with flexible part-time on-call shift based work if you’d like that.
San Francisco - Delivery Driver
16 hours to 32 hours per week
Clean Driving Record Required.
Email resumes to jobs@floragrubb.com
Deliver plants for Flora Grubb Gardens! We’re looking for an experienced delivery driver to join our team. You’ll need to be strong, have a great attention to detail, and love plants. You’ll work with our sales crew to accurately load orders of plants and take them to our customers. At times, you will assist in setting up plants and pots on a job site. You’ll need to be a great driver with excellent customer service skills. Some of our delivery drivers also work in our garden store. This is a flexible position, and if you’d enjoy working in our store as well as driving we can consider that. If you’d like to drive for nice people who deliver plants to happy customers, please be in touch.
