Assistant Studio Manager, Castro - SoulCycle

Equinox • San Francisco, CA

7h • Onsite

About The Position

SoulCycle is a purpose-driven company that aims to redefine health and happiness through a mind-body-soul experience built on community, love, respect, acceptance, and fun. Their mission is to foster an open, diverse, and inclusive community, empowering individuals through listening, learning, and nurturing trust, and working to embrace and create change for equality. The company is seeking an empathetic and dynamic professional with the ability to attract, develop, and retain talent, and a natural ambition to improve experience, processes, and business results. The Assistant Studio Manager will contribute to company growth by expertly and efficiently managing their studio and leading their studio team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for the SoulCycle culture and brand, possess strong interpersonal and organizational abilities, a customer focus, and be adept at creative problem-solving. This role requires integrity, confidence, and the ability to be a role model, taking responsibility for the success and health of the studio’s daily operations.

Requirements

• Empathetic and dynamic professional
• Innate ability to attract, develop, and retain top talent
• Natural ambition to raise the bar in terms of experience, processes, and business results on the top and bottom lines
• Passion for the SoulCycle culture and brand
• Interpersonally savvy with strong organizational abilities
• Customer focus
• Ability to creatively problem solve and learn on the fly
• Embodies integrity, confidence, is a role model, is bold
• Passionate, service-oriented, positive and hard-working
• Love for health and fitness and an excitement for the brand
• Hyper-organized, efficient, forward-thinking problem-solver
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and attention to detail
• Availability of at least 3 days per week, totaling 20 hours, with at least one of those days being a Saturday or Sunday (for part-time employees, but listed under general qualifications)
• Availability to work peak holiday shifts
• Legal right to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Foster the SoulCycle Community and Culture in your studio
• Set the weather in your studio so your studio team loves to come to work
• Build and foster relationships in your studio, with your instructors and local community
• Proactively identify and address conflicts within your studio
• Acknowledge your studio team’s wins and show gratitude
• Be open to, embrace and manage change within your studio and your studio team
• Provide in the moment support to your team to ensure that all rider requests are addressed
• Be a hospitality champion that provides exceptional hospitality to riders and staff, and inspires their team to uphold high hospitality standards and our core values
• Confidently manage conflict in high pressure situations
• Develop meaningful relationships and connections with your studio’s riders
• Be an expert on studio specific and company-wide operational procedures and policies
• Seamlessly transition yourself, team, and studio to new ways of working and processes
• Develop and maintain schedules to ensure that all operating processes are completed
• Demonstrate a solution oriented mindset and ability to execute within company standards in any situation
• Set priorities to ensure all deadlines are met
• Develop checklists and operational schedules to ensure that all aspects of the facility are maintained
• Be future oriented with a strong ability to plan for projects
• Demonstrate the ability to manage your own schedule, prioritize and meet business critical deadlines, and complete projects under pressure
• Support your Studio Manager in developing business plans to reach and exceed your ridership and retail goals
• Support your Studio Manager in ensuring that all company-wide initiatives are executed in your studio
• Develop a holistic retail sales plan that encompasses your studio’s retail goals
• Work alongside the retail team to identify opportunities to grow your studio’s retail business
• Function as MOD (“Manager on Duty”) if/when any member of management team is NOT on the premises
• Regularly communicate to management team on any issues that arise during the opening/closing, whether or not they are resolved
• Assist the Studio Management in daily studio tasks and projects
• Share knowledge and best practices with staff
• Maintain keys to the studio and exert proper care and control over them
• Responsible for the opening and/or closing of the studio
• Maintain opening and closing checklists and supervise studio team in ensuring all items are completed daily
• Provide support to the SoulCycle instructors to ensure a successful class check-in process
• Work as a cohesive team with all SoulCycle staff members to ensure efficiency and camaraderie
• Provide high level customer service and hospitality to clients
• Be on-duty hospitality champion
• Assign tasks to part timers, when necessary
• Manage retail area and visuals to ensure an optimal selling space
• Responsible for additional manager system duties (i.e. returns, etc)
• Assist Management team with additional responsibilities, as needed
• Assist with the training and coaching of new hires for the front desk staff team
• Maintain product knowledge for all studio retail operations
• Maintain the distinct SoulCycle aesthetic, appearance, atmosphere and culture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees