What is the Ramstead Professional Residency?
This is not your typical ranch internship. The Ramstead Ranch Professional Residency is a purpose-driven opportunity for hands-on learners ready to grow in a real-world business setting. You'll join a small, motivated team in a peaceful rural environment and gain an exceptional blend of agricultural, entrepreneurial, and leadership experience.
Ramstead Ranch is located at the end of a dirt road in one of the most peaceful and beautiful corners of the Inland Northwest. Our days start with birdsong and end with starlight. If you're looking for clarity, focus, and purpose, this is a setting that supports both personal and professional transformation.
What You’ll Learn:
Scrum/Agile Management Training
Scrum is a way of getting things done together. Instead of trying to solve everything at once, teams take small steps, communicate often, learn from their results, and keep improving. It's a practical system for organizing work that can be applied to almost any job, business, or life challenge.
● Daily on-the-job application
● Weekly sessions with national-level Scrum experts
● Practical applications of Scrum you can use in any business arena
● Ramstead is the first Scrum-Agile Ranch in the U.S.
● Weekly training with the first Scrum-Agile restaurateur
● Learn alongside 3 Certified Scrum Masters on staff
Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
● Identifying your ideal customer
● Crafting and capturing images for digital storytelling
● Website development, planning, and implementation
● In-depth study of paid and organic advertising
● A/B test your advertising content in real time
● Managing a $150K advertising budget
● Understanding what it takes to sell in business
● Right-sizing your marketing funnel
Financial Education
● Income statements and monthly reporting/monitoring
● Balance sheets
● Cash flow projections and analysis
● Managing overhead and direct costs
● Margin calculators
● Enterprise evaluators
● "Dead wood" finders
Essential Business Structures
● Develop fluency in Corporate Capital
● Organization chart creation
● Writing job descriptions
● Workflow critical path
● Writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and testing in real time
Additional Learning
● Optional opportunity to learn fiber arts: hand-spinning and knitting from a Master Spinner, from sheep fleece to finished product
● Probable participation in building projects. You’ll learn budgeting, procurement, and execution strategies that apply to any future capital improvement project, from fence building to home improvement and remodel.
Capstone Project Implementation
● Choose an area of interest
● Plan, budget, and procure materials
● Develop a site plan and lead project execution
● Enroll and manage others in your project
What You’ll Do
As a resident, you’ll work in multiple areas of the ranch's operations and gain a holistic understanding of what it takes to run a regenerative, direct-to-consumer agricultural business.
Weekly Workflow:
● 3 to 4 days per week in our fulfillment operation (indoors, clean, and
well-organized)
● 1 to 2 days per week caring for livestock and maintaining infrastructure
(outdoors, variable weather)
● 1 day per week working on marketing and customer engagement
You’ll also:
● Attend daily standups and weekly planning meetings (Scrum format)
● Take photos and draft stories for our marketing team
● Participate in seasonal projects (fencing, infrastructure, etc.)
● Create and lead a capstone project that develops a personal skill set through improving ranch operations
● Co-author a white paper documenting your personal experience of regenerative business development
No prior experience is required. What you need is a willingness to learn, a strong work ethic, and an open mind.
Why This Program is Different
● Stunning rural setting where silence, stars, and sunrise become part of your daily rhythm
● Modern accommodations far above the standard for ranch accommodations
● Balanced lifestyle that includes a 10K running trail with obstacles, local recreation, and scheduled downtime
● Team culture with a growth mindset and mutual support grounded in emotional maturity
● Real business education taught by ranch owners and experienced team leaders
● Immediate application of knowledge you may have only studied in theory
● Transparent learning environment where no question is off limits and no answer is sugar-coated
● Team-led continuing education nights 3 times per week. Collaborative topic building. We all learn together
● Professional network access to help you find future ranch jobs or entrepreneurial pathways
Pay: $17.25 per hour
Benefits:
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: In person
