Coffee is about pleasure.
It’s that moment when your hand is warmed by the mug, you raise it to your nose, inhale deeply, and then take a sip. That sip is the culmination of years of work, three-thousand-mile journeys, and passion. These are the steps we take to ensure that each sip is perfect.

Since our beginnings, Stumptown has searched the world for the best coffee out there. That coffee grows in mountainous regions of the tropics—farms perched at high elevations with warm days, cool nights, and distinct rainy and dry seasons. Microclimates, soil composition, coffee cultivars, and post-harvest processing methods can each contribute distinct dimensions to the cup.

Our coffee team spends about half the year in producing countries, meeting directly with our producer partners on their farms, at their mills, and in their cupping labs. The effort is worth it. We’re not doing it the easy way by buying bulk, mid-quality beans anonymously from a trading house. Instead, we go right to the source of the best coffee—that farm atop a hill in Ethiopia, for example. We hike through fields, stand among coffee drying decks, and sit down to share a meal and talk about the crop with producers we’ve met many times.

We routinely pay producers well in excess of what they could receive on the commodity market, but we understand that our coffee demands more work—hand-picking each cherry at ideal ripeness and processing it with great attention to detail.

Careers at Stumptown

Hi, we're Stumptown, a coffee company committed to sourcing, roasting, packaging, delivering, and serving what we firmly believe is the best coffee on the planet. We’re progressive, innovative, and uncompromising in our commitment to quality. We pride ourselves on our passion for excellence, our spirit of generosity, and on the long-term relationships we nurture as we guide our coffee from the good hands of our hardworking partners at origin into the cups of our customers. We work hard, collaborate constantly, and have fun every day. If you love coffee, people, and getting things done, this just might be the place for you.

B Corp
Stumptown became a certified B Corp in June 2018. The certification builds on values Stumptown has long held dear, including an employee-driven culture, Direct Trade coffee sourcing, affordable access to health care, taking care of the environment, and simply doing things our way.  We think of our commitment to B Corp as a commitment to help track and measure how we’re doing and where we need to do better. Becoming certified wasn’t the finish line—it was the start of the journey.

Diversity
Stumptown actively and intentionally works to create a diverse team—different ideas, backgrounds, and identities make us stronger, together. We aspire to build a safe and welcoming space for all; a place where individuals can grow their unique skills, and where we’re all accountable to help shape what we want to see in this community. This pursuit is ongoing—we strive to lead with a progressive approach and continually learn from our shared experiences.