**Budtender – Job Description** We are seeking an experienced, customer-focused Budtender to join our dispensary team. The ideal candidate will bring strong retail or hospitality experience, excellent communication skills, and a solid understanding of cannabis products, compliance, and customer service standards. This role requires someone who is reliable, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment. **Key Responsibilities:** - Greet customers, provide a warm and welcoming experience, and guide them through product selections based on their needs and preferences. - Maintain extensive product knowledge, including flower, concentrates, edibles, vapes, topicals, and accessories. - Operate the POS system with accuracy, processing purchases, returns, discounts, and loyalty points following company procedures. - Verify customer identification and ensure all transactions follow state and local compliance regulations. - Educate customers on dosage, product effects, strain types, and safe consumption practices. - Maintain a clean, organized, and visually appealing sales floor and service counter. - Restock inventory, track product levels, and communicate shortages or discrepancies to management. - Assist in opening and closing duties, including cash handling, drawer reconciliation, and POS reporting. - Provide exceptional customer service while managing wait times, answering questions, and resolving issues professionally. **Qualifications:** - 1–2 years of retail, customer service, or hospitality experience required; prior cannabis experience preferred. - Strong POS skills with experience using retail systems (Dutchie, Treez, Flowhub, or similar). - Excellent communication, active listening, and customer-facing skills. - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail. - Must be dependable, punctual, and comfortable working flexible shifts, including weekends or holidays. - Must meet all state requirements, including age restrictions and any necessary cannabis worker permits. **What We’re Looking For:** - A friendly, knowledgeable team player who enjoys helping people. - Someone who can balance customer engagement with compliance and accuracy. - A professional who brings positivity, patience, and a willingness to learn. **_About Vangst:_** _Vangst is the cannabis industry’s hiring platform. Vangst helps cannabis companies find the talent they need to grow their business. From on-demand gig workers to trained & credential full-time employees, Vangst has built the industry’s go-to talent marketplace for all cannabis hiring. Vangst is proud to work with 1,200+ of the cannabis industry’s leading businesses._ _Since raising their seed round in 2018, Vangst has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the cannabis industry and was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies._ _Today, over 300,000 people have full-time jobs in the cannabis industry and this number is expected to triple over the next five years. Vangst is on a mission to fill every job in the cannabis industry._ _Vangst’s headquarters is in Denver, CO. Vangst is a Series B company backed by Lerer Hippeau, Colle Capital, Level One Fund, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, and others._ _Vangst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws._ _This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training._