Careers at Best Buds

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Open positions

We’re hiring cultivators, harvesters, budtenders and a maintenance technician, and we offer college internships. Every role needs you to be 21 or older and to have, or be able to get, a Colorado MED badge.

Hiring

Budtender

📍 Denver shops
🕒 Full-time, about 40 hrs/week · morning, day and evening shifts

Help customers find the right product, keep the sales floor clean and stocked, and run accurate sales on our POS.

Duties and requirements

What you’ll do

Give great customer service and help guests choose products
Teach customers about strains, products, ways to consume and effects
Run the POS accurately and handle cash
Stock and rotate products on shelves and displays
Keep the store clean and organized
Follow all Colorado cannabis sales rules

What you need

21 or older
Colorado MED badge (or able to get one)
At least 1 year of experience (retail sales or customer service)
Know cannabis strains, products and ways to consume
Comfortable with POS systems and cash handling
Strong communication; fast-paced work; a second language is a plus

Perks

Employee discount
Health insurance
Flexible schedule
Tips
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

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Hiring

Cultivator (Cultivation Technician)

📍 Aurora grow (80010)
🕒 Full-time · Monday to Friday

Help run our Aurora grow: daily plant care in our live organic soil, from clones to harvest.

Duties and requirements

What you’ll do

Daily plant care: watering, pruning and trimming
Cloning and plant propagation
Moving plants between grow rooms
Help at harvest and post-harvest
Keep cultivation rooms clean and organized
Follow our SOPs and work as a team

What you need

21 or older
At least 1 year of cultivation experience
High school diploma or GED
Colorado MED badge (or able to get and keep one)
Pass a background check; reliable transportation
Lift 25–50 lbs, climb ladders, work in warm, humid rooms

Perks

Harvest KPI bonus about every three weeks
Health insurance
Employee discount
Room to grow with us

Apply now

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Hiring

Harvester (Trim & Post-Harvest)

📍 Aurora grow (80010)
🕒 Full-time · Monday to Friday

Bring each harvest in: bucking, de-stemming, sorting, hand and machine trimming, and getting flower ready to cure.

Duties and requirements

What you’ll do

Help with harvest processing: bucking, de-stemming and sorting
Hand trim flower and run automated trim machines
Prepare product for curing and storage
Keep the trim and harvest areas clean
Follow our SOPs and compliance steps

What you need

21 or older
High school diploma or GED
Colorado MED badge (or able to get and keep one)
Pass a background check; reliable transportation
Able to do repetitive trimming and stand or sit for long periods
Trimming, METRC or trim-machine experience is a plus

Perks

Harvest KPI bonus about every three weeks
Employee discount
Referral bonus

Apply now

Hiring

Maintenance Technician

📍 Denver metro, multiple sites
🕒 Full-time · travel between Denver and Aurora locations

Keep our shops and cultivation facility in good working order: repairs, preventive maintenance and ticket follow-up across Denver and Aurora.

Duties and requirements

What you’ll do

Handle repairs and preventive maintenance at our stores and cultivation facility
Basic plumbing, electrical work, HVAC filter changes, lighting, fixtures, doors, locks and painting
Follow up on maintenance tickets through to completion
Keep stores and the grow up to our standards
Work with our facilities lead, Eric Brown, and with store managers

What you need

21 or older
Colorado MED badge (or able to get one)
Reliable transportation for travel between our Denver and Aurora locations
Basic tools
Able to lift about 50 lbs

Perks

Employee discount
Health insurance
Room to grow with us

Apply now

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Students

College internships

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Interns

Best Buds works with many Colorado universities and offers college internships. Work alongside our team in a family-owned, seed-to-sale cannabis company and learn how it all fits together, from the soil to the shop.

🎓 Current college students and recent grads
🔞 Must be 21 or older (cannabis industry rule)
📍 Denver and Aurora

Apply for an internship

Areas you can explore

CultivationLearn live organic soil growing, plant care, IPM and harvest with our grow team.
Lab and extractionSee how flower becomes live resin, rosin, budder and sugar, plus testing and quality control.
Retail and marketingWork with our shops and marketing team on customer experience, merchandising, social media and promotions.
Business operationsGet hands-on with inventory, compliance, purchasing, accounting and the systems behind a seed-to-sale company.

Tell us your school, program and expected graduation date in the application, plus which area interests you most.

Apply

Apply to Best Buds

Takes about two minutes. Laura on our HR team reads every application.

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Phone*Position*

Preferred location*Availability*

Resume (PDF, DOC or DOCX, up to 5 MB)* Notes (optional) I am 21 or older.*

Or email your resume to Laura

Applications go to Laura on our HR team. You can also email your resume to laura@bestbudsco.com.

Why Best Buds

Why people work here

Build a career

A budtender can become a supervisor, a manager, a leader. When Best Buds grows, our people get the chance to grow with it.

Learn from people who’ll teach you

I do it, you watch. You do it, I help. You do it and teach someone else.

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Work with flower we grow

Every plant starts in our own live organic soil. You’ll know the product because we make it.

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Get noticed for great work

We catch people doing things right and say so: “I noticed what you did. Thank you.”

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Real shops, real customers

Help people find the right product and leave a little better than they came in.

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One team, one mission

Retail, cultivation, lab and office work as one company, and we help each other win.

Read what we stand for: our 16 values →

Where you’d work

Our shops and our Colorado Indoor Premium Grow, where every plant starts in live organic soil.

Inside Best Buds RiNo — Our RiNo sales floor

Where budtenders work their magic

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