Part Time or Full Time · Chicago
Compensation: 60,000 + Bonus Opportunity (Annually)
About Locavana
Locavana is rebuilding the local food economy. We connect small farms and food producers directly to communities through direct-to-consumer home delivery and mobile pop-up markets — making it easier than ever to buy fresh, local food where people actually live and work. We're a small team moving fast, and we're hiring people who want to help build something that matters.
The Role
The Market Activations Lead is the face of Locavana in the field. You'll run our pop-up markets, open new locations at apartment complexes and businesses, conduct home deliveries, and use our proprietary technology to keep inventory, payments, and customer growth humming. This is a builder's role — real ownership, real impact, and a front-row seat to a fast-growing company.
What You'll Do
- Run pop-up markets. Set up, sell, engage customers, and break down at city markets, apartment communities, and corporate sites. You're the energy in the room.
- Open new locations. Pitch property managers, HR leaders, and business owners on hosting Locavana pop-ups or lockers. Build the route map.
- Run Home Deliveries - Using our tech stack, you will help pack and deliver customer orders straight to their door.
- Run our tech stack. Use our proprietary inventory, point-of-sale, and customer-growth tools to track every product, every transaction, and every customer interaction.
- Solve problems on the fly. Card reader acting up? Cooler temp drifting? Customer asking about the farm? You handle it.
- Move product. Pick up from our hub, transport to market sites, and manage cold chain end-to-end.
- Contribute to the playbook. What's working? What's not? Your input shapes how we expand.
Who You Are
- A people person. You light up around customers, build genuine rapport, and make strangers feel like neighbors.
- Passionate about food. You care where it comes from, who grows it, and why local matters.
- Hard-working. You don't watch the clock. You like getting your hands dirty and seeing results.
- Self-directed. You can run a market alone without a manager hovering. You make calls in the moment.
- Tech-comfortable. You can pick up new software and hardware quickly. We'll teach you our stack — you bring the willingness.
- Clean driving record. Required. You'll be operating company vehicles.
- Physically capable. Comfortable lifting 50 lbs, standing for long stretches, and working outdoors in variable Michigan weather.
Bonus Points
- Experience in food service, farmers markets, retail, hospitality, or events
- Sales or B2B outreach background
- Existing network in property management, corporate HR, or the local food scene
- Military Experience
Why Locavana
- Real growth path. This role grows as we grow. Strong performers will have opportunities to lead market expansion, manage other Activations Leads, or step into broader operations leadership.
- Mission that matters. You're helping small farms reach customers and rebuilding local food infrastructure from the ground up.
- Small team, big impact. You'll work directly with the founder. Your ideas will get heard and tested.
