WORKING WITH INDIAHIKES

Trek leaders lead the Indiahikes teams in the mountains. Trek leaders ensure that more than leading trekkers on a trek, trekkers take back a transformative change in their mind, body and spirit.

Trek leaders ensure that trekkers get to experience the unique Indiahikes trek experience that we are famous for. They are also the carriers of the Indiahikes brand.

Trek leading is a skill that is learned. You devote up to 90 days for a training and mentorship program. Training is imparted on leadership, safety, experience building, operations and technical skills. At the end of the program you go on to become a trek leader at Indiahikes.

Applicants for Trek Leaders must fulfill the following criteria:

• Must be at least 24 years of age. Male/Female. We encourage women to be trek leaders.
• Must have a minimum of a Basic Mountaineering Course certificate from a reputed Institute.
• Must have done at least two high altitude Himalayan treks (that go above 14,000 feet). If you have done these treks with Indiahikes, that is even better.
• Must be willing to acquire a BLS certification (basic life support). A BLS certification can be done in any metro city at reputed hospitals.
• Must have excellent English and Hindi communication skills.
• Work experience in a leadership role in a different industry is preferred.
• Must follow an active fitness regimen. BMI (Body Mass Index) must be between 18.5 and 24.9.
• Smoking and drinking is strictly not permitted under our work conditions.

Would you like to assist Indiahikes trek leaders? Perhaps be a future trek leader? If so, then the ATL program is suitable for you.

The ATL role is for individuals who do not fully satisfy trek leader selection criteria (background, qualification, age, etc) but looking to be future trek leaders with Indiahikes

ATL applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Minimum 22 years old.
• Open to both men and women. Women make very good trek leaders!
• Must have done at least two Himalayan treks. Treks to Kheerganga and Triund do not count. 
• Work experience in other industries is given preference.
• Must have excellent English and Hindi communication skills.
• Must follow an active fitness regimen. BMI (Body Mass Index) must be between 18.5 and 23.9.
• No smoking or drinking habits at all.

ATLs undergo extensive training before being considered as trek leaders with Indiahikes. The training is in two stages. First stage is an induction period of 10 days at our Bengaluru office followed by a 90 day period of intensive training in the mountains. If your assessment is successful in each of the two stages, you become a Trek Leader with Indiahikes.

During the ATL training program you earn a stipend of Rs 4,000 per week. Once a trek leader, your earnings range between Rs 4.0 and Rs 6.0 lakhs per annum at the first level. Earnings increase considerably when you move to the second and third levels of responsibility (usually in one and a half to two years time)

Before you apply for the post of an assistant trek leader, see this video about what the job involves.

It takes a lot to be a slope manager at Indiahikes. Which is why we are looking at Assistant Slope Managers to assist our Slope Managers.

The role would involve more or less the entire gamut of work that the Slope Manager does with the final responsibility resting on the Slope Manager. Assistant Slope Managers can look forward to being promoted as Slope Managers if they show good growth at their work.

Salary starts at Rs 4.5 - 5.0 lakhs per annum. Food and stay is taken care of by Indiahikes. 

What we look for in an Assistant Slope Manager:

• Age: Between 26 and 32 years (Male or Female)
• Work Experience: Essential in other industries, especially in a supervisory or management role.
• Trek Experience: Must have good trek experience
• Behaviour and attitude: Humble, respectful and courteous. Being frugal is what we admire. You prefer a bus over a taxi.
• Location of work: Must be willing to be stationed in the mountains for long. Our work locations are beautiful and shift every season.
• Marital status: Unmarried
• Habits: Smoking and drinking is not permitted under our work conditions.

Experience Coordinators help build the unique trek experience that Indiahikes is known for. You focus primarily on the pre-trek and the post trek experience, while our Trek Leaders focus on the 'on-trek' experience. 

You work closely with other departments to build these experiences. You talk extensively with trekkers, understand and learn from their experience. 

The role also requires you to handle trekker queries, help them solve their problems, be an adviser to them and coordinate their movements.

It is a role that has communication at its crux. Which is why people who are well-travelled, socially friendly and with good exposure to the outside world do well in this role.

Experience Coordinators work out of our office in Bengaluru. 

Applicants for Experience Coordinators must fulfill the following criteria:

• Must be at least 23 years old. Upper age limit is 28 years.
• Must have done treks (we prefer if you have done Himalayan treks. If you have trekked with Indiahikes, that's even better!)
• If you have work experience (in other industries), it greatly matters.
• Must be willing to work from Bengaluru 
• Must have excellent English and Hindi communication skills. We will test your written English.
• Female or Male.

Salary starts between 4.5 - 5.0 lakhs per annum.

Do you want to be part of our experience coordination team? But cannot work full-time? This is a part-time home based role for those who cannot join our office team. The role requires you to assist our Experience Coordinator team.

You need to commit 6 hours a day for this. There are two shifts that we work in (9.30 am to 2.30 pm and the next shift is between 2.30 pm and 8.30 pm). We work on Saturdays too, so the work is between Monday and Saturday.

The role requires excellent communication skills (English and Hindi). Prior work experience is required.

Salary starts at 3.0 lakhs per annum. Though the work is part-time home base, you need to be Bengaluru based. The work requires you to come to the office once a week (for 6 hours).

We are looking for photo-editors who can bring to life the Indian Himalayas on screen through the Indiahikes platform. 

This requires strong editing, organising, and categorising skills, given that thousands of trekkers share their photos and videos with us every season (3-4 months). 

Ideally, we would like someone who has a keen eye for detail, who can differentiate a great photograph from an average one. 

Please note that we use media files received by trekkers in different platforms — website, Instagram, YouTube, offline posters. To fit this role, we are looking for someone who can bridge the gap between the photos we receive and the photos that we can use on these platforms. 

Applicants for photo-editors must fulfill the following criteria:

• Experience in handling a large database of media files

• Strong technical skills, should be able to work with Photoshop, Lightroom, In Design

• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

• Prior experience of working as a photo editor

Indiahikes is known for its information. We have been building authentic, informative and creative content for our trekking database for the past 12 years. We are the Trekipedia of the country. Every Content team member helps grow this vast database of trek information.In this role, you write thought provoking articles, research the world of trekking, document treks, interview experts in the field, work on photographs, videos and podcasts.

As a member of the content team, you also take the growth of Indiahikes forward.

The variety in the role is enormous; the work is global. Growth in this role is rapid.

The mandatory requirements are that:

• You write well. Excellent communication skills in English are a must
• You have prior exposure or experience to the content world
• You are willing to be Bangalore based

Indiahikes is known for its vast database of trek information. Thousands of trekkers use our detailed documentations to trek everyday. This database is highly respected for its credibility and authenticity.   

We are looking for Trek Documenters to grow our documentation. We want to document trekking trails anywhere in the country, be it the mountains, plains, rivers or beachsides. We want to bring out information about it to enable trekkers to trek on their own. 

As a trek documenter, you will be updating our current trek documentations and also adding to new trek information. Most of these are documented by talking to trekkers. At times you do these treks too.

We are looking for team members who are

• Have good research skills 
• Good written and spoken communication skills.
• Are passionate about trekking

If you have done several treks (locally or in the Himalayas), that’s ideal. 

This is a full time role that requires you to be based in Bengaluru. 

If you are keen to contribute but cannot relocate to Bangalore, write to us as well. We will see if we can work with you remotely.

When it comes to information about trekking, our website is deeply respected by trekkers for the credibility it holds and the authenticity of the content. We continue to grow our information database, with over 1,200 articles on the website concerning different topics around trekking. 

To grow this further, we are looking for experienced part-time writers who can ideate, research, speak to experts and write articles that deep dive into the trekking world. 

Some more specifics of the role: 

• You are looking for writers who have at least 5 years of experience in content writing
• We are looking for those who have the ability to ideate and work on articles independently 
• We expect you to work on 1-2 articles a week
• You will be paid on a per-word basis. 
• We would prefer it if you have some trek experience. If you have trekked with Indiahikes, even better. 

At Indiahikes, we are looking for editors to help edit the content our writers create. This would mean refining the structure of content, making it more concise and bringing an Indiahikes voice into the writing. 

The editor will also be co-ordinating with all the writers at Indiahikes and guiding them towards choosing good topics, doing the right research and bringing sharp focus in the writing.   

You may even write an article or two yourself.

We are looking for editors/writers with at least 2 years of experience, excellent language skills and preferably, some exposure to the trekking world. We would like your work experience to be from the print/digital media.

This is a full time role based out of Bangalore. Salary starts between 4.2 - 4.6 lakhs per annum, based on your experience. 

As a Graphic Designer, you play an integral role as a content creator and visual communicator at Indiahikes. In this role you will always be designing things at Indiahikes — infographics, posters, merchandise, maps. You will work across different mediums. You will collaborate with the experience team, the content team and all merchandise team. 

For this,

• You need to have a good design background.
• You’ll need to know Photoshop / Illustrator.
• Knowing InDesign would also be helpful. 

We would like to see your work. So when you apply, please send us links to your work.

Like other roles, you must be Bengaluru based. It is a full time role out of our office.

We are looking at photographers cum filmmakers who can take the level of images and videos higher on our website.

If your photos and videos have been featured anywhere, then you are already the kind of person we are looking at.

Ideally, we would like you to be a photographer and a filmmaker rolled into one. 

We like those who have multiple skills. A good sense of design is required. Understanding website design and how it works is very important.

Location: This role will require to be on our treks. You may move from one trek to another. From time to time you may have to work out of our Bangalore office as well. 

Technical skills: You must know Photoshop/Lightroom, Final Cut Pro/Premier Pro and After Effects.

Application: To apply send us links to your photos and videos (do not attach any images), along with the prescribed application process. Also let us know about the photography/film-making equipment that you currently own.

Indiahikes is known for its extensive learning and development programmes. New team members enter the organisation with little or no experience, and are honed into the best Trek Leaders and outdoor experts. This happens only through our learning and development processes. 

As a Learning and Development Team Member, you are responsible for creating and implementing strong training modules at Indiahikes. Your objective is to improve the technical and soft skills of team members at Indiahikes and make them globally competitive. 

Your work will include: 

• Researching extensively on training modules that can be adopted for outdoor leadership training. It would also mean creating these modules, researching into case-studies within the organisation.  
• Developing and implementing new training programmes (online as well as offline)
• Collaborating with the best training teams from across the world to create training modules and workshops for Indiahikes.

We would prefer someone who has a background in developing ‘learning and development’ modules. If you are familiar with Indiahikes or have trekked with us, that’s a bonus.

The role is full-time out of our Bangalore office.

Experiential learning is the dynamic world where we learn from the outdoors. At Indiahikes the leading IIMs and top B-schools have partnered with Indiahikes to impart experiential learning programs to their students. School, colleges and professional institutes too have partnered with Indiahikes for an experiential learning component in their curriculum.

It is a field of study that is growing enormously at Indiahikes. The beautiful part is that many of our learning from the experiential learning studies are now key experiences on our regular treks. For our experiential learning team we are looking for:

1. Business development: You will need to visit schools/colleges and professional institutes to talk to them about our experiential learning programs. 
2. Program designers: You will help our team in designing experiential programs as well as imparting them. It requires you to come with a background in designing experiential learning programs.

We are looking for research interns who would like to work on two interesting research projects.

Project 1:
The objective of the first project is to understand how our body adapts or responds to high altitude. Globally, there's very little understanding of the effects of altitude on the human body.

Indiahikes has been collecting vitals of trekkers - oxygen saturation, pulse rate and BP all through the trek - vitals that can bring a deeper understanding of how human body responds to altitude.

We have data of over 3000 trekkers. We need a data analysis specialist to help us analyze and understand the patterns over these data.

Project 2:
Our vision at Indiahikes - everyone must trek - comes from the deep belief that trek transforms lives. We know that trek has a huge impact on trekker's mind, body and spirit. We want to study and document this impact.

This we believe, will help the world see trekking as not just a recreational activity but a therapeutic activity.

We are looking for researchers with a background on clinical psychology to be a part of the study. In particular we are looking for expertise in quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

Note: If you are a Data science or Clinical Psychology student doing your Masters, you can use these projects as part of your master's thesis. 

Indiahikes runs one of the most complex trek operations. Imagine running treks all over the country, 365 days a year, remotely (without phone signals), yet at the level of quality, consistency and experience that we are known for. 

People are astonished at how we are able to do it. Yet, this is our skill and ability.

We need more members to join our operations team. As a team member you will help us streamline our processes, introduce new systems and innovate our trekking experiences.

You must be Bengaluru based, with at least 3 years of work experience. We are looking at those in the age group of 25-28.

At Indiahikes, we manage complex operations, working in remote locations, with different payment structures. We are looking for a team member who can perform various financial and accounting tasks, such as preparing financial reports, budgets, managing accounting records, handling payments, and preparing payroll documents.

This also involves working closely with our Chartered Accountant and assisting them with financial documentation and annual audits. 

We are looking for team members who: 

• Are proficient with Tally
• Have a minimum qualification of a B.Com
• Have at least 2 years of work experience in the field of finance
• Love trekking and have done treks. 

This is a full-time position based out of Bengaluru. Expect salaries between 4.2 - 4.8 lakhs per annum.