Brand Ambassador - Job ID 185011

Brand Ambassador

Your role in caring for our plants:

• Develop, manage, and maintain the pop-up and event calendar, proactively scheduling and coordinating pop-up events at company retail locations, third-party retail accounts, and community events.
• Overseeing maintenance of merchandising in DC dispensary.
• Transport merchandise and promotional materials to and from various locations.
• Set up event booth at various locations.
• Facilitate weekly in-store cannabis tasting events at the DC dispensary, including event preparation, customer engagement, setup, and release form management.
• Build and maintain rapport with budtenders and dispensary management.
• Educate dispensary patrons about the District Cannabis product line and the benefits and uses of each product as well as what sets the District brand apart in the market.
• Spread brand awareness through word-of-mouth at pop up and community events around DC and occasionally MD.
• Act as the "face" of District Cannabis at all scheduled events.
• Own distribution of printed assets including but not limited to posters, stickers, and flyers.
• Assist in the execution of local marketing initiatives and brand events, including new product launches, community outreach efforts, partnership activations, sponsorships, and external events in collaboration with DCM Inc.; support all aspects of event planning and execution, including setup, breakdown, on-site engagement, and the organization and distribution of promotional and marketing materials.

All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications we ask you to have:

• For legal reasons, all employees need to be at least 21 years of age.
• You will be asked to pass a Federal and State criminal history background check.
• We ask that you have at least a high school diploma/GED.
• We ask that you have at least one (1) year of customer service, events or hospitality experience.
• We prefer brand ambassador experience.
• Willingness to be in market and travel between DC and occasionally Maryland District Cannabis and partner sites.

Additional skills which will help you excel in your role:

• Desire and ability to work as a member of a team.
• Flexibility to accommodate scheduling demands including some weekends and applicable holidays. 
• Well developed knowledge of cannabis industry, growing and processing techniques, products and their uses is required.
• Please have personal accountability, proactive behaviors, and strong attention to detail.
• Excellent observational skills.
• Ability to remain calm in high-pressure situations.
• Compliance with all HR policies including confidentiality and non-disclosure.
• Ability to work at a fast pace in a high production environment.
• Strong computer skills.

Please make sure you are willing and able to perform the following:

• While performing the duties of this position, you will be regularly asked to talk or hear.
• You will frequently use your hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• This position requires an inordinate amount of sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting and reaching in full range of motion to complete physical tasks
• You may be asked to carry/lift loads of up to 50lbs at times.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Our Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental & Vision
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Short-Term Disability
• Life Insurance AD&D
• 401K
• DCM Product/Merch Discounts
• Paid Time Off
• Competitive pay
• Industry Discounts
• Discretionary Bonus

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action

To most growers, the flower they harvest is the end of the road. For us, it’s just the beginning.

Our mission is to grow more than the world’s best Cannabis. We’re growing a better world. One that’s more caring, compassionate, understanding, and informed.

Behind every Sour Diesel, Gelato Cake and Lemon Royale Flower is something bigger: our mission to create meaningful, positive change in the world.

To fight for equality within the industry and society. To give those in need access to the medicine they require. To change perceptions about this miraculous plant and the power it contains. To soothe and heal, without hurting Mother Earth.

Every day we learn a bit more about the unlimited potential cannabis holds, and there’s nothing we like more than sharing it with you. Because to us, cannabis is much more than a plant; it’s our chance to change the world, one person, one patient, one policy at a time.