Assistant Coach

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Job description

A Healthier Future Starts With You

As an Assistant Coach (Assistant General Manager), you support your store as a leader, strategist, and mentor. You'll inspire your team, drive operational excellence, and deliver exceptional guest experiences using data-driven insights to build healthier communities through real food.

What You’ll Do

As an Assistant Coach (Assistant General Manager), you're a hands-on leader who inspires your team while driving operational excellence. You'll mentor team members to become future leaders, partner with the Head Coach to set goals and track performance, and use data-driven insights to navigate challenges and ensure exceptional guest experiences that build healthier communities through real food. These responsibilities highlight some of the key functions an Assistant Coach performs. Additional supervisory tasks may be assigned as necessary.

Essential Functions

• People + Leading the Team: Partners with the Head Coach on hiring, onboarding, and training while fostering a culture of trust and recognition. Anticipates operational needs and adjusts deployment to support smooth operations. Provides hands-on coaching, steps in during peak times or staffing gaps, and ensures clear communication for consistent execution.
• Food Safety + Journey: Upholds high standards for food safety, cleanliness, and equipment maintenance by inspecting food quality, checking temperatures, and ensuring compliance. Partners with the Head Coach to promptly resolve facility, supply, and quality issues while ensuring team member safety and strong audit performance.
• Customer Experience: Ensures a clean, hospitable, and brand-aligned guest journey by upholding SWEET standards, acting on guest experience metrics, and making timely business decisions to deliver fast, accurate, and memorable in-store and digital experiences.
• Financial + Business Acumen: Supports operational excellence by managing controllable costs, executing schedules, and partnering with the Head Coach to drive sales and implement short- and long-term strategies using insights from the Ops Dashboard.
• Systems, Process + Tech: Ensures effective team deployment and expert use of systems by supporting daily operations, troubleshooting issues, and prioritizing tasks to drive smooth and efficient execution.
• Execute Assistant Coach Career Path Duties: Perform all essential functions outlined in the Shift Leader role, including those from the Kitchen Lead and Team Member roles

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience in fast casual restaurant chains
• Hands-on experience with local, organic, and sustainable products
• Familiarity with tech tools and systems used in operations and scheduling
• Proven leadership experience with strong problem-solving skills and ability to make confident decisions under pressure
• Excellent communicator who fosters positive team culture, mentors employees, and delivers exceptional guest experiences
• Highly organized, reliable multitasker with experience in scheduling, coaching, and performance oversight

Minimum Requirements

• Meet all physical requirements for all roles within the career path, including the Assistant Coach, Shift Leader, Kitchen Lead, and Team Member.
• 2+ years in a restaurant management/supervisory role
• Experience managing and developing 6+ team members per shift
• Food Handler or ServSafe certification
• Must be available to work a minimum of 30 hours per week
• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

What Perks You’ll Get

• Competitive base salary + 15% bonus potential
• Medical, dental + vision insurance plans to suit your and your family’s needs
• Paid Vacation + Wellness time
• 401(k) program
• Paid family leave; we fully support new parents
• Complimentary greens
• Free sweetgreen swag
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and connecting them to real food
• A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally

Who We Are

Sweetgreen is a national restaurant brand dedicated to building healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Since 2007, Sweetgreen has reimagined fast food to be fresh, flavorful, and rooted in relationships with farmers and communities. As we grow, we are committed to developing our people in our restaurants and at our support center, so that everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you not only invest in your own future but help create spaces where food, people, and purpose come together

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Ohio is in the Midwest region (East North Central division) and has 11,810,293 residents (the 7th largest of the 50 states and DC by population), with a median age of 39.7. Its economy produced about $1,005,388 million in the latest four quarters (BEA), 7th among states and DC, equal to $85,128 per resident.

Jobs and the labour market

The unemployment rate was 3.4% in 2026M09, which is 16th lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 4.8% of employment, 5th highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $49,380 a year ($23.74 an hour), 3% below the national median ($49,380 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in Ohio are Fast Food and Counter Workers (163,560 jobs, median $28,430); General and Operations Managers (153,160 jobs, median $97,700); Registered Nurses (143,730 jobs, median $82,510); Retail Salespersons (137,370 jobs, median $30,800); Stockers and Order Fillers (129,760 jobs, median $37,130). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Physicians, All Other (median $297,440); Nurse Anesthetists (median $231,810); Pediatricians, General (median $217,970). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in production (1.5 times the national share of workers) and healthcare practitioners and technical (1.2 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are below the national average in Ohio: the regional price parity is 92.8 against 100 for the whole country (17th lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $1,034 a month and the median household income $71,389, so a year of rent equals 17.4% of income; the median home value is $214,800. The state minimum wage is $11.00 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: Flat 2.75%. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It has no state paid family and medical leave programme in our source.

People and commuting

5.2% of residents were born abroad and 31.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 75.1% drive alone, 1.0% use public transit and 13.0% work from home; 10.8% commute 45 minutes or more.

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