About Bike-alog

We produce a monthly “universal catalog” on CD for subscribing bicycle stores and suppliers throughout the country. It has been respected in the industry for 20 years.

We look for long-term only, assume commitment to the bicycle industry and bike retailers in particular, and familiarity with the Windows environment.

Our informal, hardworking, nonsmoking, no-dress-code office is a mile from the UCSB campus in Santa Barbara: a year-round bike-to-work coastal/mountain cycling paradise bordering the Los Padres National Forest with hundreds of miles of gorgeous mountain bike trails and endless opportunities for road cycling. Check one easy trail on our website at www.Bike‑alog.com/BKG/Gaviota

We currently are looking for people who can do one or more of the following jobs:

Industry Analyst  (full or part time)

Analyze and enter bikes, parts & accessories for industry database. Requires ability to describe bicycle parts & accessories clearly and to understand subtle product distinctions between wholesaler listings (such as  whether slightly different descriptions from different wholesalers are actually the same product).  Also limited telephone tech support, member sales support, and vendor relations. Can be a learning opportunity if you’re willing to learn on your own and already have enthusiasm & bike knowledge. If you don’t have previous bikeshop or industry experience, mention in your email why you feel you can do the job.

Full or Part time.  Schedule is flexible as long as 75% of your time is within normal business hours.

Assistant Office Manager  (part time)

Part-time.  Great learning position for student or other person with some good office skills and the ability to learn quickly.  Need quick-learning person to work in relaxed, but busy office!

You’ll be working under the supervision of our office manager of 18 years (who is also a senior programmer) and who really needs someone to help her with some tasks, and more important, to take charge of some responsibilities completely.

We need 20 hours a week of your time, preferably on a daily schedule (which can vary by day) and additionally the ability to come in at specific times to run monthly tasks.

Duties will include but will not be limited to:

Answer the phones. Assist the caller if you can, or direct the call to the proper person.

Maintain information in our database about bicycle stores who are Bike-alog members or potential members.

Prepare recurring reports.

Ordering supplies.

Perform scheduled office procedures on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. These include using several custom applications that have been developed to automate our office.

Help revise several documents to reflect current practices.   

You set your own schedule as long as it is within normal business hours.

Sales  (full or part time)

Seeking energetic, self motivated individual to conduct organized follow-up to cement relations and build long-term goodwill with new members and our current member bike shops. Duties would include telephone sales and support, manufacturer relations, and industry analysis. Also person to sell ads on www.BikePedia.com  to manufacturers.

Candidate must have experience with the cycling industry, or display a solid knowledge base of cycling industry parts and accessories.  Flexible weekday hours, (min20) in a casual Goleta office.  Salary hourly plus commission.

To apply: Email an attached resume (formal or informal), along with a brief description of yourself and why you think you could do well here to Employment@Bike-alog.com .