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Work with Heritage.
Skilled trades in the San Francisco Bay Area, the people who run them, and two content seats: one remote, one in the Bay Area. Some seats are for our own operation and some open as each acquisition completes; the difference is set out below. Applications are read by a person.
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Tap a role to jump to it. Full descriptions open where they sit.
Two kinds of seat, and the difference matters
Direct hire
Hires for our own operation. Not waiting on anything. If you are the right person, the offer comes when we have finished talking.
Expansion seat
We buy businesses with decades of reputation and more demand than they can serve — established, owner-operated companies — then modernize how they run and add capacity: another crew, another bench, another chair. We interview ahead, and offers go out as each acquisition completes, so the day a business joins Heritage its expansion team is ready. You are told which stage yours is at.
These are expansion roles, not replacements. The people who built each business stay. You are the growth.
The roles
Skilled people are the constraint on every growing trades business. Each description below is the real one: what the work is, what we look for, and what the seat comes with.
Licensed Operations Leadership Direct hire For trade professionals (C-39, C-6, C-33 or similar) ready to run a growing operation. This is a working leadership seat: you run production, supervise the field and build the bench. It is never a name on paperwork. SF Bay Area · Salaried · Competitive pay and benefits, based on experience Full description
Never held the licence yourself? Read this before you scroll past.
The requirement is four years of journey-level experience in the last ten, as a journeyman, foreman, supervisor or running your own crew. There are no educational requirements at all, and a completed apprenticeship or trade school can count toward the four years. If that is you, we cover the application and the exam fees, and the licence stays in your name. And if you held a licence at any point in the last five years, the exams are waived outright. Past that window they are not, which is the Board’s rule rather than ours.
The work
You are the qualifying individual on the licence and the operator of the business behind it, responsible for the work that goes out under your number.
What we look for
- Qualifying the licence, and standing behind it. This is a real responsibility, not a name on a form, and we will not structure it as one.
- Running production: crews, schedule, quality, and the money each job makes or loses.
- Building the bench beneath you, so the business is not one person deep.
- Owning the relationship with the CSLB, the bond, and workers’ compensation.
- Estimating and pricing work, or holding whoever does to a standard.
What CSLB requires, so nobody is surprised late
- Four years of journey-level or higher experience in the classification, within the last ten, verified by a third party who saw the work.
- Passing the trade and law examinations.
- A clean enough record to be bonded.
On how this is structured
A qualifier who is not genuinely running the business is an arrangement the CSLB treats seriously and so do we. If the seat is real, the authority is real. We will not offer, and will not accept, a licence-renting structure by any name.
What the seat comes with
A salary that does not depend on a deal closing, and a business built to be worth something to you specifically.
Apply for Licensed Operations LeadershipRoofing Expansion seat Roofers, foremen and helpers for the established roofing companies we acquire, modernize and grow: another crew on roofs the business could not reach before. SF Bay Area · Competitive pay and benefits, based on experience Full description
The work
Residential reroofs and repairs: tear-off, deck and underlayment, shingle, tile and low-slope systems, flashing done properly, and a site left cleaner than you found it.
What we look for in a roofer
- Work that holds through a wet winter, not just through the inspection.
- Shingle, tile or low-slope experience; more than one is better.
- Safety you keep without being watched: fall protection set up before anyone goes up.
- Helpers welcome: if you show up and want to learn the trade properly, we will teach it.
What we look for in a foreman
- Running a crew and a schedule so the roof is closed before the weather turns.
- Holding the standard for someone else’s work, and correcting it without losing the person.
- Talking to a homeowner plainly when something under the old roof is worse than expected.
What the seat comes with
Year-round work, equipment and safety gear provided, workers’ compensation, health, dental, vision and a retirement plan with a match. Offers go out as each roofing acquisition completes, and you are told which stage it is at.
Apply for RoofingCabinet & Millwork Expansion seat Bench carpenters who cut, join and finish to a real standard, and leads who keep a shop and an install crew moving together. SF Bay Area · Competitive pay and benefits, based on experience Full description
The work
Bench and shop work to a real standard, and installation that holds up in a finished house. Casework, face frames, doors and drawers, cut, joined and finished by someone who can read a drawing and spot when it is wrong.
What we look for
- Machine work you can trust: table saw, jointer, planer, shaper, and a sharp edge kept sharp.
- Joinery that survives a season of humidity, not just an inspection.
- Reading shop drawings and cut lists, and catching the error in them.
- Finishing, or working cleanly enough for whoever does.
- Installing in a real house, where nothing is plumb and the customer is home.
What we look for in a shop or install lead
- Sequencing a shop so the bench is never waiting on the machine room.
- Owning the standard for someone else’s work, and correcting it without losing the person.
- Scheduling installs against a build calendar you do not control.
What the seat comes with
A shop worth working in, tooling maintained rather than merely present, and steady work. Health, dental, vision and a retirement plan with a match.
Apply for Cabinet & MillworkPainting & Finishing Expansion seat Painters who prep properly and pick the right system, and wood finishers, the hardest seat in the trade to fill and paid accordingly. SF Bay Area · Competitive pay and benefits, based on experience Full description
The work
Interior and exterior, residential and light commercial, plus wood finishing where the standard is highest. Preparation, spray and brush, colour and sheen matched, and surfaces protected properly on the way.
What we look for
- Preparation, which is where the job is won or lost. Anyone can lay a coat; masking, patching and sanding are the trade.
- Spray equipment set up, run and cleaned properly.
- Working around a customer’s furniture and floors without leaving a trace.
- Knowing when a substrate is not ready and saying so before you coat it.
Wood finishing, which we treat as its own discipline
- Stain, toner, glaze and topcoat, matched to an existing piece.
- Repair and touch-up on site, on finishes you did not apply.
- A dust-free enough space, made dust-free by you.
What the seat comes with
Equipment provided and maintained, year-round work rather than a summer season, health, dental, vision and a retirement plan with a match.
Apply for Painting & FinishingBeauty & Wellness Expansion seat Licensed practitioners for salons and spas adding chairs and rooms: estheticians, CAMTC-certified massage therapists, stylists and nail technicians. SF Bay Area · Competitive pay and benefits, based on experience Full description
The work
Service providers in skin, massage, hair and nails. The chair, the room and the book are yours to run; the business behind them is ours to run properly.
What we look for
- A current California licence in your discipline, in good standing.
- A clientele you keep because they come back, not because they are locked in.
- Sanitation and room standards you hold without being watched.
- Retail and rebooking handled as service rather than as a pitch.
- Working alongside other providers without turning the floor into a competition.
How the money works, stated plainly
Compensation in this discipline is a model rather than an hourly band: commission, booth rent, or an employed rate, and which one applies changes what you owe and what we owe you. We will put the specific structure in writing before you commit to anything, and we will not describe a booth-rent arrangement as employment or the reverse.
What the seat comes with
A room and a front desk that work, supplies and laundry handled, booking and payments that do not eat your evening, and the people who built the salon still there.
Apply for Beauty & WellnessVideo Producer & Editor Direct hire Shoot and cut our video library: long-form explainers, short cuts, motion graphics and thumbnails. A reel matters more than a CV. Early-career welcome. SF Bay Area, on location · Contract · 90-day initial term · Early-career welcome Full description
The work
We acquire established, owner-run businesses, modernize how they run, and grow them. You turn our research and the founders on camera into video people finish watching: scripts shaped with us, long-form edits for YouTube, short cuts for every platform, motion graphics and thumbnails, and shooting on location around the Bay Area, in shops, on job sites and with the founders.
What we look for
- A reel. Student work, personal projects and freelance pieces all count.
- Editing fluency in Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut.
- Motion graphics and thumbnails that earn the click honestly.
- Based in the SF Bay Area, with your own way to get to a shoot.
- Shooting usable video on a job site without slowing the crew down.
- Keeping a technical explanation accurate while making it watchable.
The standard, which is unusual and is the point
We do not publish claims we cannot support, outcome promises, or numbers nobody validated. If a piece needs a figure, it comes from the person who owns that figure. That constraint is the job, not an obstacle to it.
What the seat comes with
A named 90-day term with a real brief, our research to work from, a social media producer who carries your cuts to every channel, and founders who show up on camera when you need them.
Apply for Video Producer & EditorThen a 30-minute call, a short exercise on real material, and a working session to talk it through.
Apply
Two minutes. Every application is read by a person. If your trade opens near you, you hear from us directly, and you can ask us to delete your details at any time.
Social Media Producer Direct hire Run our social channels: turn research on what businesses are worth and how ownership changes into posts people stop for. Early-career welcome; show us what you have grown. Contract · Remote, US or India based · 90-day initial term · Early-career welcome Full description
The work
We acquire established, owner-run businesses, modernize how they run, and grow them, and we have the research to show for it. You turn it into a steady rhythm on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube Shorts and Medium: the calendar, the captions, short-form cuts from footage the video producer hands you, carousels and graphics, and the community that answers back.
What we look for
The standard, which is unusual and is the point
We do not publish claims we cannot support, outcome promises, or numbers nobody validated. If a piece needs a figure, it comes from the person who owns that figure. That constraint is the job, not an obstacle to it.
What the seat comes with
A named 90-day term with a real brief, our research to work from, a video producer feeding you footage, and founders who show up on camera. A portfolio or a link to an account matters more than a CV.
Apply for Social Media ProducerThen a 30-minute call, a short exercise on real material, and a working session to talk it through.