About this role
About the Role
Sonder is seeking a Hospitality Supervisor to lead and develop a city-based team of Hospitality Agents, owning city operations projects and scalable onboarding and training processes to deliver a premier Sonder guest experience.
What You'll Do
- Support Hospitality Agents by training, coaching and providing performance feedback with an eye towards execution
- Prioritize, delegate, execute, and support day-to-day tasking to ensure world-class guest experience and team accountability
- Guide guests through the Sonder experience, ensuring they have an amazing first impression
- Communicate cross-functionally clearly and with compassion
- Own and update standard operating procedures to support team execution
- Assist in continuous improvement project design and implementation
- Analyze market trends to optimize operations and to proactively address potential guest issues
- Work with City Operations Leadership to identify new opportunities to elevate operations for both our guests and the city team
What We're Looking For
- Minimum 3 years of experience managing direct reports; hospitality a plus
- Proven ability to lead, prioritize and deliver with a focus on driving team performance through coaching, training and accountability
- Strong affinity to people management and able to effectively lead a team by example, inspiring people to be engaged and proactive
- Great communication skills, able to define clear action steps for their team members and effectively delegate
- Ability to take the initiative and problem solve independently
- Detail-oriented and organized
- Ability to adapt and flex to shifting priorities
- Embraces technology for team management and collaboration and motivated to adopt new and emerging technologies
- Strong ability to establish positive relationships with others
- Thrives in a fast paced, ever-changing, always challenging startup environment
- Basic spreadsheet knowledge required i.e., Google suite
- Ability to lift/carry items up to 40lbs, and stand/walk for extended periods of time
- Knowledge of hospitality is a plus
- Experience in a start-up environment preferred
- Must have a flexible schedule and be able to work nights and weekends as business requires
- This role requires regular access to a reliable smartphone, reliable transportation and willingness to travel between properties on a daily basis when working. (Reliable transportation includes biking, walking, public transportation, scooter and/or other forms of transit that provide reasonable work associated transit times between locations).
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of hospitality
- Experience in a start-up environment
Compensation & Benefits
- We offer attractive employee travel perks for any Sonder location as well as health and lifestyle benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental and vision insurance (where applicable)
- Flexible vacation
- Wellness and volunteering days
- Annual free credits and discounts to stay in Sonders
- Workplace flexibility (for remote-specified positions only)
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