CAREERS AT VIVOBAREFOOT

Vivobarefoot x Wild Human created a series of experiences to take you back to your roots: learn to live wild in the Lake District. All profits from events go to The Livebarefoot Fund supporting rewilding experiences around the world.

The Vmatrix is our in-house product sustainability tool that scores all products on a seasonal basis, against six key sustainability KPIs. We use the VMatrix to score new products entering the range and to continuously improve our existing styles!

Vivo’s first attempt at Integrated Reporting. We aimed to deliver a truly holistic, engaging view of the business, warts and all. In the absence of the community structures we’ve had in history where we grow up, learn from and are supported by the people around us, business now plays this role. Working at Vivobarefoot isn’t just a 9-5, it’s a place for you to live your best life. To thrive. Unfinished Business is a place where we celebrate all it means to be in that community, but to also reflect on what we can do better in the future.

As a certified B Corp, we joined a community of over 3,500 other businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. 

Revivo is our groundbreaking recommerce site, where customers can purchase pre-loved ReConditioned Vivos, as well as returned and out-of-season stock at a lower price, keeping thousands of Vivos out of landfill. It also provides a repairs service, which allows customers to keep their Vivos for longer, and a Take Back programme.

The Livebarefoot Fund is Vivobarefoot's in-house impact fund for the incubation and deployment of programmes driving research, innovation and action in footwear, experiences and community engagement. The LBF collaborates with research and innovation centres, social businesses, activists, NGOs and indigenous communities for human and planetary health.

We joined forces with The Happiness Index to help monitor the satisfaction of our staff through carefully thought-out surveys and engagement tools. 

We partnered with ÖTILLÖ to bring Swimrun to the world. Swimrun connects wild swimming and trail running in some of the world’s most beautiful – and wild! – locations. An exhilarating combination of endurance sport with breath-taking (sometimes literally!) nature exploration. We’ve created a 3 different models of Swimrun footwear since the collaboration began.

Ross became the first person to swim around mainland Great Britain. He spent 157 days at sea propelled only by muscle power, taking only 6 hour breaks on a boat between each swim. We have worked with Ross for a number of years, including his to sea to summit recovery where Vivo coaches helped rehab and strength his feet after his time at sea.

In 2017 we launched a production line in Addis Ababa, training and employing local shoemakers, technicians and managers. Since then, our footwear made in Ethiopia has generated over $2 million in wages and provided 18,000 children with an education. 

We proudly opened the doors to our first  concept store in the Czech Republic. 

The FFF (Future Footwear Foundation)'s overarching aim is to develop footwear that is sustainable for the environment and the body by establishing a (mostly virtual) future-footwear centre serving as an cross-disciplinary hub for interaction between artisans, academics and businesses such as ourselves here at Vivobarefoot.  In 2018 we celebrated the launch of Barefoot Cobblers, a book by FFF, marking a milestone in biomechanics and anthropological design research. 

Founded in 2012 by two seventh-generation cobblers, Galahad and Asher Clark, Vivobarefoot creates barefoot footwear and encourages connection to nature. We weave cutting-edge technology, ancient wisdom and the natural world into a new business as usual. From our barefoot shoes to our recommerce platform and in-house incubation hub for social and environmental initiatives, everything we do aspires to improve human and planetary health by reconnecting us with nature. Whether you explore mountain terrain or dance in the urban jungle, we invite you to move naturally and feel more. Welcome to the joyful revolution.