sweetgreen's People team is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support our growing markets with hourly hiring! This role can be based in any one of our Central or North East markets.

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will serve as the hiring support for your respective market helping to find the most talented team members to begin a career at sweetgreen. You will provide on the ground support to bring our hourly recruitment strategy to life. This means you strategically build relationships, and enjoy getting creative to find the best people in your area. Your role is critical to fueling the growth of our company by identifying hourly talent to join our team.

What You'll Lead (Essential Functions of the Role)

• Community Partnerships + Relations. Build, and own community, culinary, youth, military and campus recruiting programs that drive traffic to the talent funnel by market.
• ATS + Job Marketing. Track and measure candidate flow by allocating resources to drive candidates to open roles.
• New Restaurant Openings + High-Priority Restaurants. Support Leadership Recruiters as they partner with field operators to ensure candidate flow and NRO readiness.
• Hiring Event Coordination. As directed by the Field Leadership Recruiter they schedule, advertise and coordinate events to achieve maximum applicant flow.
• Special Projects. As determined by market needs they will do research [ex. compensation analysis support] or upcoming NROs and other projects necessary.

Talent Planning

• Build and maintain strong relationships with Leadership Recruiters, Area Leaders and Head Coaches to understand their unique needs and/or challenges for their market and stores
• Support and train Head Coaches to maintain and build community partnerships that drive applicant flow.
• Maintain and provide reporting over your market(s) as required
• Plan recurring recruiting events with strong partners that can be executed by the Area Leaders or Head Coaches
• Utilize employment branding to advocate for sweetgreen both digitally and physically, in the local talent community
• Conduct compensation analysis as needed for your market(s)

Seamless Execution

• Utilize our ATS system and any approved job boards for communication, scheduling and reporting purposes
• Ensure screening and interviewing practices are aligned with company policy and compliance laws

Education and Experience

• 2-3 years experience working in hourly recruitment

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent Computer Skills - Google Suite / Excel / PPT
• Experienced in building business relationships with cross functional leadership
• Appreciates ambiguity and autonomy in an incredibly fast-paced environment.
• Brings creativity to the table when approaching the hiring strategy for your market
• Natural problem solver with a passion for creating simple solutions
• Ability to travel in market and out of market a minimum of 25% of the time.

What you'll get:

• Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Flexible PTO plan
• 401k program
• Paid family leave; we believe in fully supporting new parents
• Employee HSA and FSA
• Complimentary greens
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
• To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
• 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
• Free sweetgreen swag

Come join the sweetlife!

About sweetgreen

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we're committed to leaving people better than we found them. We're in the business of feeding people, and we're out to change what that means.

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about the E-Verify program, please click here.

All candidates for roles in markets where either sweetgreen or the local jurisdiction mandates full vaccination against COVID-19 to work in our restaurants must as a condition of employment provide proof of full vaccination with an FDA authorized and/or approved COVID-19 upon hire, subject to a reasonable accommodation being granted. For roles in all other markets, full vaccination against COVID-19 is preferred.