Employment

Stillpoint employs guides who have experience with Alaska and/or the Pacific Northwest who thrive on inspiring and entertaining adults, teens and kids through preparedness, storytelling, team building, and educating others about the history, flora and fauna of our area and greater Alaska.

We employ strong, confident, knowledgeable and well-spoken guides with a passion for outdoor leadership and conservation. Stillpoint guides are at the ready to lead kayak, paddleboarding, and hiking day trips, deckhand and track and maintain an extensive recreational equipment inventory. The ability to understand the daily influences of the weather, wind and currents is required, as well as being comfortable with boats and aircraft. The days are especially long and demanding. Our guides have the energy to stay positive, entertaining and compassionate of the needs of the guests, and actively foster and embody the ideals of sustainability.

As naturalists, our guides use their experience and observational skills to avoid disturbing wildlife, keep our guests safe, and teach mindfulness and stewardship. We practice Leave No Trace and are dedicated to responsible tourism. Floatplane, helicopter and boating experience is a plus.

Our charismatic, dependable captains have a passion for the ocean, sensibility for hospitality, deckhanding experience, minimum USCG 100 ton captains license, knowledge of local flora and fauna, and the discipline for routine upkeep of boats,  keeping the dock clean and assisting with lodge and vehicle maintenance.

Our captains are proficient in small boat handling, prepared for a trip at any time, and are interested in educating our guests on local history, nature and wildlife. 

With 12 acres of land, over 20 buildings and numerous boats, docks and vehicles, maintenance is an ongoing necessity. This individual also works with the  maintenance team on groundskeeping, upkeep of boats, vehicles, various lodge facilities, and special projects. The ability to assess, problem solve and utilize available resources is a daily practice. Experience with mechanical repair is a plus! Must be physically fit and highly capable for materials hauling, dirty jobs, and use of power tools.

Our captains are part of our guide team! We require strong, confident and well-spoken individuals to lead day trips and maintain an extensive recreational equipment inventory. The ability to understand the daily influences of the weather, wind and currents is required, as well as being comfortable with boats and aircraft. The days are especially long and demanding. Our guides must have the passion to stay positive, entertaining and compassionate for the needs of the guests, and continuously foster the ideals of stewardship.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, you will assist with grounds keeping, landscaping, luggage, recycling and refuse management, cleaning, dishwashing and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

We are passionate about growing, sourcing and featuring fresh and vibrant cuisine for our guests and staff. Work in collaboration with our executive chef to maintain all aspects of our food and beverage program. Must be organized, friendly and passionate about local ingredients, creative plating, communication, cleaning and sustainability.

The Chef de Cuisine works in collaboration with our management team and other chefs, and is responsible for all aspects of the dining experience. The Chef de Cuisine is responsible for the lunch buffet, happy hour and multi-course plated dinner, the Breakfast Chef covers the morning shift and helps with staff meals and packed lunches, and the Pastry Chef prepares all breads and desserts. As part of our leadership team, the Kitchen Manager supervises the other kitchen staff including the other chefs, kitchen assistants, dishwashers, servers and gardeners, and oversees menu planning and purchasing.

The Chef de Cuisine must have ongoing willingness to learn and adhere to our high standards of service. We look for chefs who have established culinary knowledge and proficiency with preparing a variety of proteins, gourmet ingredients and artistic food presentations. Inventory and waste-management are important to us as well as catering to special diets. Long days are routine. He or she must be organized, friendly and passionate about food and the environment, and enjoy being creative, doing prep-work, interacting with guests and detail oriented cleaning.

We create a new menu each week, offering seasonal, unique and satisfying homegrown and housemade meals for our guests and crew. We serve fresh vegetables and herbs harvested from our garden and greenhouses, house-made baked goods and specialties, Alaskan seafood and local and organic animal products.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times everyone assists with groundskeeping, hauling supplies, other kitchen duties including light serving and dishwashing, and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

We are looking for amazing, licensed massage therapists who also enjoy wearing other hats throughout the day helping with housekeeping, guide program support, yoga if possible, dining, and/or gardening. This requires willingness, flexibility, and readiness to transition between jobs.

Stillpoint massage therapists provide an integral contribution to the health and wellness of our guests and community.  As part of our overall guest services, massage therapists work primarily in housekeeping. Although massage is included for our guests, it typically only comprises about a third of total hours worked depending on bookings. Our beautifully constructed massage building has two clean, peaceful therapy spaces to provide personalized treatments. A tidy, professional appearance is essential.

Yoga teacher training or other group fitness instructor training is an added bonus and would allow you to lead classes at the lodge.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times you will be asked to assist with other lodge duties including housekeeping, gardening, grounds keeping, kitchen duties including serving and dishwashing and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Our housekeepers work tirelessly to provide a positively clean, healthy and peaceful setting for our guests and community. They are responsible for working as a team in accordance with the highest of standards. We are often bound to a tight schedule so efficiency is essential.

With impeccable attention to detail, our housekeepers are responsible for insuring a clean and uniformly tidy environment for the Stillpoint community. The housekeeping staff works together to maintain Stillpoint’s accommodations including the lodge, restrooms, dining room, guest cabins, boats, common areas, laundry and all facilities. Our housekeepers are responsible for working as a team in accordance with our procedures and the highest of standards, including final walk-throughs and constructive feedback. Often, he or she is bound to a tight schedule, so multitasking and efficiency is essential. He or she is a master at detail-oriented cleaning, precision vacuuming, and laundry, and is a bright and cheery morning person and energetic throughout the day.

Everyone on the Stillpoint staff provides first class customer service with a smile. Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times you will be asked to assist with gardening, grounds keeping, kitchen duties including serving and dishwashing and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Responsible for ensuring the cleanliness of dishes, tableware, glassware, pots, pans, and utensils through manual washing and high heat sanitizer. Frequent lifting and working quietly is required, as well as maintaining our recycling, compost and refuse systems.

This strong, hardworking individual enjoys the physical work of washing dishes, stocking groceries, hauling supplies, and completing checklists of detail oriented cleaning. Our non-toxic dishwashing station makes this crucial job quite enjoyable. A job well done includes consistently maintaining a clean work station, responding to the needs of the chefs, servers and bartenders and other kitchen staff, detail-oriented washing and cleaning, mindfully caring for locally handmade serving pieces, quickly mastering our meticulous organizational system, and beautifully polishing flatware and glasses. Frequent lifting and working quietly is required, as well as maintaining our recycling, compost and refuse systems.

Although each employee specializes in a specific job, you will be asked to also assist with busing, groundskeeping, gardening, landscaping, maintenance, portering, luggage, housekeeping, other kitchen duties and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Our remote location and extensive infrastructure requires an experienced handyman or woman to spearhead routine maintenance and oversee ongoing groundskeeping. As sustainability coordinator, monitor our resource usage and refuse programs.

With 12 acres of land, over 20 buildings and numerous boats, docks and vehicles, golf carts, bobcat, bulldozer, generators and more. We're looking for a maintenance professional with depth and breadth of experience and knowledge on gas and diesel engines, operating power tools, basic plumbing, electrical, maintenance and safety is an ongoing priority. This individual works with the facilities manager on groundskeeping, upkeep of all lodge facilities and special projects. The ability to keep a regimented schedule of routine duties, assess, problem solve and utilize available resources is a daily practice. Experience with mechanical repair and boats is a huge plus! Must be physically fit and highly capable of diagnosing and fixing stuff, hauling materials, and jumping right in on dirty jobs in all kinds of weather. Basic skills must include: basic carpentry; landscaping; plumbing; electrical; vehicle, diesel and small engine maintenance; heavy equipment, power washing, and power tool operation.

Acts as the point person for all recycling, compost, trash, light bulbs, propane and firewood and helps to train and update staff on proper procedures to minimize waste. Organizes and ensure the timely and efficient disposal of refuse.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, you will assist with groundskeeping, landscaping, portering, recycling and refuse management, cleaning and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Are you passionate about hospitality and all things fine dining?

We are looking for a lively and accommodating fine dining sever with bartending and sommelier experience. This critical position requires a positive attitude, enchanting communication skills, limitless energy, and a genuine interest in gourmet Alaska cuisine, fine wine pairings, and craft beverages. 

Stillpoint's charming Fine Dining Server is also ideally a sommelier and bartender works closely with the general manager to oversee all front of house services including guest reception, concierge, bar and dining room. He or she is a food and beverage professional who has amassed years of experience as a fine dining server and bartender and who possesses exceptional customer service skills including a keen ability to multi-task and remember details such as intricate menus, client names, schedules, cabin assignments and food and drink preferences.

Happy Hour: Help set the tone for an uplifting evening. Light a fire, select a playlist, set up the bar and help prep the appetizers. This detail oriented individual and is a pro at mixing classic hot and cold beverages featuring top shelf spirits and serving award-winning wines and frosty Alaska micro brews.

He or she is ideally also a trained sommelier, or at minimum has a working knowledge of wine service and helps train other staff on our service standards. Along with the culinary team, they suggest pairings that will best complement the menu. This requires experience and knowledge with how food and wine, beer, spirits and other beverages work in harmony.

Dinner Service: After happy hour, transition to the dining room where we present a multi-course, prix fixe menu with wine pairings and open hand service. This includes an intimate knowledge of the menu and familiarity with local ingredients. For well-timed, choreographed food delivery, communication and cooperation with the chef and other servers is essential.

After Dinner: Continue bar beverage service after the meal as guests move outside to the bonfire or back to the lounge. Ensure the guests are attended to as you complete your sidework duties of busing, restocking and inventory, washing and polishing flatware and glassware, assisting with dishwashing, and resetting the bar and dining room.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, you may be asked to assist with groundskeeping, landscaping, maintenance, portering, luggage, housekeeping, other kitchen duties and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Like to work early and be off in the evening? In Alaska, the sun is already up when you head to the lodge to start the coffee.

Love waking up early and connecting with people in the morning? Our servers establish a personalized rapport with guests, manage food and beverage orders remembering the smallest details from day to day, communicate proactively with kitchen staff, and clean up meticulously after service.

Our food and beverage professionals have amassed years of experience in the fine dining setting, possess exceptional customer service skills including a keen ability to multitask and remember details such as intricate orders, client names, schedules, cabin assignments, and dining preferences.

Breakfast and lunch are served off a small menu featuring seasfood and fresh Alaska garden produce with many customizations available. We typically serve up to around 20 guests per meal. Our servers are passionate about learning every detail of each dish, know our food sources, and are ready to answer dining questions as well as general lodge and schedule questions.
 

Breakfast: Help set the tone for a phenomenal day! Many of our guests will wake early and head to the lodge to fuel up at breakfast for a day filled with adventure. Other guests may opt for a later breakfast delivered to their room... so be ready for anything.
 

Lunch: Many guests have packed lunches and are off property for lunch, but depending on the weather, lunch numbers can change quickly. Work closely with the kitchen staff to finalize the headcount and lunch menu, serve,  clean, help with dishes, and reset the dining room.
 

Bartending: Either you are already a pro at serving beer and wine and mixing classic cocktails, or you are a fast learner! Open bar is included and guests may order a bar drink at any time of the day. On busy evenings, we mayl also need extra help during happy hour.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, you may be asked to assist with groundskeeping, landscaping, housekeeping, other kitchen duties and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Are you a bright and cheery morning person who's passionate about presentation? Join our crew and create breakfast specialties made-to-order, morning staples, and assist the other chefs with lunch and dinner preparations. Attention to detail, a positive attitude, and familiarity with Alaska garden produce is key.

We serve custom breakfasts made-to-order with fresh local eggs, produce harvested from our garden, house-made baked goods and dessert specialties, local seafood and organic animal products.

Balance your schedule to accommodate both roles of Breakfast Chef and Sous Chef; help us mindfully prepare our cuisine, and ensure the kitchen is clean, stocked and well organized. Culinary knowledge and familiarity with healthy cuisine, gluten-free, vegetarian and whole-grain, low sugar baking is desirable.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times everyone assists with gardening, groundskeeping and other kitchen duties including cleaning, serving and dishwashing and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

We are looking for a strong, hardworking, organized individual with emerging bartending skills to work closely with our chefs assisting with meal prep, dishwashing, and detail oriented cleaning. The lodge has an open air kitchen and multiple dining areas surrounded by views of the magnificent wilderness.

This strong, hardworking individual enjoys the physical work of stocking groceries, bar backing, and washing dishes, and appreciates learning from our chefs while assisting with routine meal prep and completing checklists of detail oriented cleaning.

Either you are already a pro at serving beer and wine and mixing classic cocktails, or you are a fast learner! Open bar is included and guests may order a bar drink at any time of the day. On busy bays, we may need extra help with bartending during happy hour and/or after dinner.

The kitchen assistant also helps pack boxed lunches for day trips and prepares food for the staff, as well. Culinary knowledge and familiarity with healthy cuisine, gluten-free, vegetarian and other special diets is essential.

Multiple employees work as dishwashers at our non-toxic dishwashing station makes this crucial job quite enjoyable. A job well done includes consistently maintaining a clean work station, responding to the needs of the chef, servers and bartenders and other kitchen staff, detail-oriented washing and cleaning, mindfully caring for locally handmade serving pieces, quickly mastering our meticulous organizational system, and beautifully polishing flatware and glasses. Frequent lifting and working quietly is required, as well as maintaining our recycling, compost and refuse systems.

Although each employee specializes in a specific job, you will be asked to also assist with busing, groundskeeping, gardening, landscaping, maintenance, portering, luggage, housekeeping, other kitchen duties and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Is pastry your passion? Love baking bread and fancy desserts? Join our crew and create custom specialties and fresh pastries at our dedicated baking station. Requires attention to detail and uniformity, experience with special diets, beautiful presentation, and proactive communication with our culinary team.

Prepare a wide variety of desserts and breads for breakfast, lunch and dinner such as muffins, scones, cakes, cookies, pies, custards, plated desserts, etc. following traditional and modern recipes. The ability to work efficiently and follow our signature recipes is critical, but there is also much room for creativity and self-expression as well, creating seasonal desserts that engage the interest of our guests. A variety of unique plating styles and consistent decorative elements are required.

The Chef De Cuisine creates a new menu each week, offering seasonal, unique and satisfying homegrown and housemade meals for our guests and crew. We serve fresh vegetables and herbs harvested from our garden and greenhouses, house-made baked goods and specialties, Alaskan seafood and local and organic animal products.

Balance your schedule to accommodate both roles of Pastry Chef and Sous Chef; help us mindfully prepare our cuisine, and ensure the kitchen is clean, stocked and well organized. Culinary knowledge and familiarity with healthy cuisine, gluten-free, vegetarian and whole-grain, low sugar baking is desirable.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times everyone assists with cleaning, groundskeeping, hauling supplies, other kitchen duties including serving and dishwashing, and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

Do you love gardening and growing the food you get to serve to people? Our gardener knows all about growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers, harvesting, produce prep, making salad mixes, and composting. 

We welcome people who are ready to learn about how and what we grow in Alaska. This includes vegetables and herbs, micro-greens, sprouts, flowers, native plants, potted plants, weeding, watering, pruning, problem solving and winterizing. Experience with maintaining a greenhouse and potted annual flowers is a plus! Work as part of the kitchen staff harvesting and prepping the produce and salad mix. This position also includes landscaping and grounds keeping. Be prepared to work outside in all weather conditions.

Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times you will be asked to assist with housekeeping, kitchen duties including serving and dishwashing, and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

The head housekeeper is responsible for the organization and scheduling of the housekeeping department, training and supervising staff, and is the primary cabin housekeeper with a full load of daily cabin cleaning, turnovers, and turndown service.

With impeccable attention to detail, our housekeepers are responsible for insuring a clean and uniformly tidy environment for the Stillpoint community. The housekeeping staff works together to maintain Stillpoint’s accommodations including the lodge, restrooms, dining room, guest cabins, boats, common areas, laundry and all facilities. Our housekeepers are responsible for working as a team in accordance with our procedures and the highest of standards, including final walk-throughs and constructive feedback. Often, he or she is bound to a tight schedule, so multitasking and efficiency is essential.

The head housekeeper is the primary cabin housekeeper with a full load of daily cabin cleaning, turnovers, and turndown service. He or she is a master at detail-oriented cleaning, precision vacuuming, and laundry, and is a bright and cheery morning person and energetic throughout the day.

The head housekeeper is also responsible for learning all of the standards, procedures, and organization of the housekeeping department, training and supervising other cleaning staff, preparing schedules and assigning duties to other housekeepers, maintaining the inventory of cleaning supplies, inspecting rooms and common areas to make sure they are clean, and reporting to management about the team's work.

Everyone on the Stillpoint staff provides first class customer service with a smile. Although each staff member specializes in a specific job, at times you will be asked to assist with gardening, groundskeeping, kitchen duties including serving and dishwashing and ongoing camp chores. This requires the ability to prioritize daily duties with flexibility and readiness to transition between jobs.

The Operations Assistant plays a central role in leading, supporting, and coordinating our team within a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment. This position helps schedule and oversee staff across multiple departments while supporting the seamless flow of daily lodge operations and guest experiences.

Stillpoint is seeking a seasoned operations professional to support and oversee day-to-day lodge activities. The ideal candidate brings proven experience managing multiple departments with efficiency, precision, and a commitment to first-class hospitality. Strong skills in human resources, inventory control, organization, food and beverage operations, complex logistics, and technology are essential. This role works closely with our guiding, housekeeping, and culinary teams, supporting both front-of-house and back-of-house operations—recognizing that every element is interconnected.

The Operations Assistant supports the General Manager and oversees a team of 20+ staff members, advises on scheduling, coordinates daily operations, and communicates directly with in-house guests. Strong leadership experience is required, ideally in Alaska or within a remote and/or marine environment. Stillpoint is known for its thoughtful, detail-oriented service, and our exceptional guest experience depends on efficient systems, clear communication, and a culture rooted in trust, positivity, and collaboration. Above all, we are looking for someone who values teamwork, takes pride in service, and brings enthusiasm, energy, and care to their role.

In addition to supervising, this role works hands-on across all departments to continually assess staffing efficiencies, understand operational and scheduling needs, provide hands-on support during peak periods, and ensure everyone gets a day off. Success in this position requires strong prioritization skills, flexibility, and the ability to seamlessly transition between responsibilities as needed.