Career Opportunities with TRANSALP RIDERS

Transalp Riders is North America’s specialist for unique mountain bike tours that cross the Alps and other significant mountain ranges. We attract active, young-at-heart travelers who seek physical challenge and nature experiences as much as authentic cultural exchange when visiting Europe. Our mission is to provide enthusiastic mountain bikers with a blend of rewarding adventure, informal learning opportunities and fun-inspired relaxation at fair value. Transalp Riders eK is a small, distinguished mountain bike tour company that promotes sustainable tourism and lifestyle choices and strives ‘top quality’ rather than ‘top quantity’ at all levels of decision-making.

Transalp Riders values broad diversity in the backgrounds and experience of its staff and can offer its staff a dynamic and supportive work environment, excellent training and management leadership and the chance to develop professionally and personally within a dedicated team of competent, like-minded colleagues.

We occasionally have openings for Trip Leader or Assistant Guide positions and are happy to accept unsolicited applications throughout the year. The following list of qualifications serves as our guide as we search for exceptional candidates. You’ll see that we have very high expectations of our leaders – as do our guests! Tour guiding is an exceptionally rewarding profession that requires a unique combination of talents. Would your experiences, personality traits and skills allow you to answer “Yes” to most of the questions below?

• Are you an enthusiastic, athletic mountain biker who loves sharing her / his passion with others and knows how to fix minor bike problems on the go?
• Are you a confident, outgoing person who enjoys motivating people to achieve their goals even under less than perfect conditions?
• Are you a captivating, involving and sophisticated communicator?
• Are you caring observer who is good at anticipating, troubleshooting, and addressing challenges (even early on in the morning or on little sleep)?
• Are you fluent in English as well as two of the following other languages: Italian, French, German, Slovenian?
• As a local of an alpine region, do you have an in-depth knowledge of our regional destinations in terms of the natural environment, culture or history?

If you answered “Yes” to the above questions, please submit your resume by email or snail mail even if you would only be able to work with us periodically. We’ll be happy to provide training in areas such as First Aid certification, bike maintenance and repair.

Please contact us (please attach a cover letter and your resume) and we’ll respond at our earliest convenience.