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Route Setter
Bouldering ProjectUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 May 2025
About the role
Bouldering Project’s mission is to foster meaningful human connection with the most inspiring and inclusive climbing, movement, and community spaces. We care deeply about humans. We’re driven by the pursuit of better. We create joyful places and pathways for climbing, fitness, yoga, and social experiences that inspire people to challenge themselves and engage in a lifestyle centered around health, friendship, and purpose.
BP Route setters are responsible for bringing BP’s vision for a best-in-class climbing product and experience to life each and every day. BP Route setters are responsible for bringing an unparalleled level of quality, creativity, professionalism, teamwork, and craftsmanship to the work they perform. The makings of an incredible climbing experience begins with the BP Route setter.
BP Route setters are responsible for bringing BP’s vision for a best-in-class climbing product and experience to life each and every day. BP Route setters are responsible for bringing an unparalleled level of quality, creativity, professionalism, teamwork, and craftsmanship to the work they perform. The makings of an incredible climbing experience begins with the BP Route setter.
DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS
- Creativity - striving to consistently come up with outside-of-the-box ideas that break the mold of everyday thinking and methods
- Inclusive - designing a product that welcomes and provides something for people of all walks of life
- Quality-obsessed - a desire to curate the absolute best climbing experience in the industry
- Growth-oriented - a strong desire to learn, grow, and better oneself and those around them every day
- Innovation - a dedication to seeking new ideas, not settling for the status quo, and a strong desire to push the BP route setting and climbing experience and product forward
- Passion - deeply bought into what we do and love bringing it to life every day
- Professionalism - setting high expectations for oneself and exemplifying professionalism in route setting and accountability for actions and the work performed
- Development - a strong desire to seek personal development
- Communication - the ability to give and receive positive feedback and constructive criticism well
EXPECTATIONS
- Represent and live BP’s values - designing with these in mind and performing whatever task necessary to create an experience in line with these values
- Bring BP’s Climbing Experience Guiding Principles to life and live BP’s People Guiding Principles each and every day
- Create an unparalleled climbing experience by working to bring BP’s circuits to life in a waythat best exemplifies their benefits while being and advocate for BP’s circuit system and celebrating it in all work performed
- Maintain an excellent relationship with the Head Routesetter, setting team members, local staff, and local leadership - providing feedback and taking direction when necessary
- Work to create and maintain a climbing product that meets the standards and expectations of the Head Routesetter
- Maintain high standards for a clean, professional product
- Spend adequate time interacting with the local community in order to gather feedback and assess the impact of the work being performed.
- Seek personal development and progression through BP’s Routesetter Tiering System for you and those around you
- Conduct yourself and encourage a culture that best represents the expectations of the BP Routesetting department, BP’s values, and local leadership.
- Maintain the highest possible standards or risk management and be in constant pursuit of ways to mitigate risk
- Collaborate with other gym staff to help meet the needs of other departments and the gym
- as a whole
- Maintain availability and desire to assist with BP’s other local departments and events
- Provide critical and constructive feedback to the Head Routesetter regarding product, experience, job satisfaction, morale, and workload
- At BP, Routesetters’ jobs don’t begin and end with grips coming off the wall and going back on. Routesetters will involve themselves in every aspect of the gym and the community in an effort to better connect everyone with the BP climbing product. This may include participation in instruction, coaching, events, meetups, and other activities, as needed.
- Assist in creating and driving events in the gym that serve to better connect our product with our communities
- Be an example of what it means to be a community leader for BP staff
- Work closely with other gym staff to balance space needs and equipment/resource use
- Maintain organized, clean, and efficient back-stock systems
- Ensure that all holds and equipment remain clean, functioning, and of high quality.
- Maintain the cleanliness and professionalism of all climbing spaces including, but not limited to, climbing walls, training boards, and training spaces.
- Aid in the maintenance of bouldering p
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