Winejobs.com

What Winejobs.com does

Winejobs.com operates a specialized online job board serving the US wine industry, founded in 2000 and based in Sonoma, California. The platform connects wine industry employers — wineries, vineyards, distributors, importers, DTC and tasting room operators, and ancillary wine businesses — with job seekers across functional categories including winemaking and enology, cellar/lab/bottling/warehouse, viticulture, sales and marketing, DTC hospitality and retail, finance and accounting, and general administration. Search functionality supports filtering by job category, geography, business type, work arrangement, and job level, with 688 active listings observed on the platform at the time of data capture.

The platform is created and managed by Wine Communications Group (founded 1996), which also operates winebusiness.com, WineBusiness Monthly, WineBusiness Analytics, the Buyer's Guide Online, Wine Analytics Report, Daily News Email, and an HR Summit, alongside adjacent classifieds verticals covering grapes and bulk wine, used barrels, real estate, used equipment, and services and supplies. Product architecture follows a platform-plus-modules model: the core job board is augmented by subscription-based Winejobs Email Alerts and seasonal Winejobs Email Harvest Alerts, the CompTracker compensation benchmarking subscription covering 100+ winery job types, an industry events calendar, an industry scholarships directory, and a winemaking calculator tool. A dedicated Winejobs Canada vertical extends the platform to the Canadian market.

Revenue is generated through three streams: transactional job listing fees paid by employers posting through the secure portal at secure.winebusiness.com, the CompTracker subscription product for compensation benchmarking, and email alert subscriptions for job seekers. Pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is self-serve and direct-to-buyer across both employer and job seeker sides, with marketing leveraging the parent group's media ecosystem (Daily News Email, trade events, SEO across winebusiness.com), and an annual HR Summit event for enterprise employer engagement. The company is privately held, employs 11-50 people, and shows no public funding history or institutional investor disclosures.

Name

Winejobs.com

Legal name

Wine Communications Group

Website

https://winejobs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Winejobs.com operates a specialized online job board and compensation benchmarking platform for the US wine industry, connecting wineries, vineyards, distributors, and DTC operators with job seekers across production, viticulture, sales, hospitality, and administrative roles.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Wine Production & Winemaking (AFAFAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wineries & Vineyards (Tasting Rooms) (THAFALAE)

Keywords

• Wine industry jobs
• Winery recruitment platform
• Compensation benchmarking
• Vertical job board
• Wine classifieds

Headquarters

HQ city

Sonoma

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Job Listing Fees: Employers pay to post job listings on the platform. The site references Classifieds Pricing for posting fees, with various listing options including standard and featured placements. The platform shows 688 active job listings indicating ongoing listing volume.
2. CompTracker Subscription: The Winejobs.com CompTracker provides compensation reports for 100+ winery jobs. This appears to be a subscription-based service offering salary benchmarking data to employers and job seekers.
3. Email Alert Subscriptions: Job seekers can sign up to receive new listing notifications via email. The platform offers Winejobs Email Alerts and Winejobs Email Harvest Alerts as subscription services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Winejobs.com operates a specialized online job board connecting wine industry employers (wineries, vineyards, distributors, retailers) with job seekers across winemaking, viticulture, sales, hospitality, finance, and administrative roles. The platform supports employer-paid job postings, candidate search and filtering, and email alert subscriptions for job seekers. It also offers CompTracker, a compensation benchmarking tool providing salary data for 100+ winery job types, and hosts the annual Winejobs.com HR Summit.

Product overview

Winejobs.com is a specialized job board and classifieds platform for the wine industry, operated by Wine Communications Group. The platform operates as a unified ecosystem combining the core job board with multiple vertical classifieds categories including grapes & bulk wine, used barrels, real estate, used equipment, and services & supplies. Supplementary services include regional variants (Winejobs Canada), email alert systems (standard and harvest-specific), a compensation benchmarking tool (CompTracker), industry scholarships, event listings, and winemaking tools. The architecture follows a platform-plus-modules model where the core job board serves as the primary product, supported by complementary classified verticals and value-added services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Winejobs.com Job Board The core wine industry job board platform connecting job seekers with employers across wineries, vineyards, distributors, and wine-related businesses through searchable job listings with filters by job category, region, business type, work arrangement, and job level.
• Winejobs Canada Regional job board for the Canadian wine industry, serving wineries, vineyards, and wine businesses in Canada with dedicated Canadian wine industry job listings.
• Winejobs.com CompTracker Compensation reporting tool providing salary benchmarking data for 100+ winery job positions, helping employers benchmark pay and job seekers understand market rates.
• Winejobs Email Alerts Subscription-based email notification service delivering new wine industry job listings directly to job seekers based on their stated preferences.
• Winejobs Email Harvest Alerts Specialized email alert subscription service for seasonal harvest positions and temporary cellar labor opportunities during winemaking season.
• Winejobs.com HR Summit Annual HR summit event held for wine industry employers and HR professionals to discuss hiring, retention, and workforce issues in the wine industry.

Named customers12 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Napavalleywineacademy.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNapa Valley Wine Academy is referenced as a wine education resource partner, with Winejobs.com referral traffic directed to the academy for wine education courses and certifications.
• Wine Business (Wine Communications Group)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWinejobs.com is created and managed by Wine Business (Wine Communications Group), which also operates winebusiness.com, WineBusiness Monthly, WineBusiness Analytics, and industry events. This is a parent-subsidiary relationship with deep operational integration.
• WineBusiness AnalyticscoreTechnology or IntegrationWinejobs.com integrates with WineBusiness Analytics ecosystem including the Buyer's Guide Online, Wine Analytics Report, and data services, providing a comprehensive wine industry platform.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• iHire: Network of industry-specific job boards including food/beverage and agriculture verticals. Directly comparable vertical-specialist job marketplace model with employer posting fees and candidate resume database access.
• CulinaryAgents: Specialized job board for culinary, hospitality, and food/beverage professionals. Direct comparable to Winejobs.com given overlapping hospitality and DTC-tasting-room hiring use cases and similar vertical marketplace monetization.
• Poached Jobs: Hospitality-focused job platform serving restaurants, hotels, and food/beverage venues. Comparable as a self-serve vertical job marketplace with employer listing fees competing for similar hospitality-oriented employer budgets.
• Hcareers: Long-established hospitality job board serving hotels, resorts, restaurants, and food/beverage operators. Direct peer in terms of vertical job board model, employer self-serve posting, and talent subscription services.
• AgCareers.com: Vertical job board serving the agriculture and food production industry with employer postings, salary data, and career resources. Highly comparable to Winejobs.com as a niche job board monetized through listing fees and subscriptions in a specialized industry vertical.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Professional network with integrated job listings and salary insights. Increasingly competes for wine industry executive, sales, and marketing hires where passive-candidate reach and professional brand matter.
• Indeed: Largest generalist job board globally. Competes with Winejobs.com for any wine industry hiring spend not driven by vertical specificity, particularly for entry-level and broader operational roles.
• ZipRecruiter: SMB-focused job marketplace with broad employer reach and AI matching. Competes with Winejobs.com on price-sensitive wine employers who may default to generalist platforms for cost reasons.
• Glassdoor: Job listings platform with extensive employer salary and review data. Directly comparable to the CompTracker salary benchmarking value proposition, though at much larger scale and broader scope.

Others

• WineBusiness.com (Wine Communications Group): Parent platform and adjacent ecosystem including WineBusiness Monthly, WineBusiness Analytics, and classifieds (Grapes & Bulk Wine, Used Barrels, Real Estate, Used Equipment). Not a direct competitor but the controlling ecosystem and distribution backbone for Winejobs.com.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/winejobs_com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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