Field Operations Manager

Saltbox•Atlanta, GA

7h•$70,000 - $95,000•Remote

About The Position

Saltbox makes the hardest parts of running a small online business simple. Our workspaces bring together flexible warehouse suites, offices, and hands-on logistics support, all designed to help eCommerce entrepreneurs scale with confidence. Our members run businesses across Fashion & Apparel, Health & Beauty, Electronics, Household Goods, and more. When you join Saltbox, you're not just joining a company, you're helping real small business owners in your own backyard succeed. Saltbox is growing: new locations are opening, new programs are rolling out, and new accounts need to be set up right. The Field Operations Manager is the hands-on operator we send in to make those things happen on the ground. You'll spend roughly half your time embedded in Saltbox markets: implementing new accounts, opening new locations, running operational resets, and training the teams who keep it all going. The other half you'll spend turning what worked into playbooks and training the rest of the network can run. Your job is to execute what's new, account implementations, location openings, operational resets, and leave behind teams and systems strong enough that they don't need you anymore. This is the first time Saltbox has hired this role, so there's no playbook waiting for you. You'll write it. You'll do the work first, on the floor, alongside the team, then turn what worked into the standard everyone else runs. If you want a real say in how a role, and a growing network, take shape, this is that seat. What the job looks like One week you're on a warehouse floor in Atlanta setting up a new account alongside the local team. The next you're home, turning what you learned into a playbook every market can run. You'll travel roughly 50% of the time, working shoulder to shoulder with Market Leaders and Location Managers while you're on the ground. Your remote weeks are for building: writing SOPs, coaching teams over video, and checking whether what you rolled out last month actually stuck.

Requirements

4+ years in operations, logistics, warehousing, fulfillment, implementation, or multi-site operations
You use AI daily AND you've started building it into how your team operates, workflows, drafts, recurring summaries. Specifics matter.
Strong process improvement and project management skills: you can map a process, find the waste, and rebuild it
Ability to translate business requirements into executable operational plans
Strong communication and training skills: you can get a team aligned without a deck
Comfortable influencing without direct authority
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Willingness to travel approximately 50%, based in Los Angeles, the Washington DC metro, the Atlanta metro, or the Phoenix area

Nice To Haves

You take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks: that's the ownership mentality we hire for
You're energized by airports, warehouse floors, and new problems in new cities. 50% travel sounds like a feature, not a cost
You get satisfaction from making yourself unnecessary: the win is the team running it without you
You're as comfortable walking a customer through their setup as you are sorting packages next to the team at 7am
You don't wait for a perfect playbook: you build the first version yourself and improve it as you go
You like helping things grow that didn't exist before, and you've gotten your hands dirty doing it, not just planned it from a distance
You hold a high standard and coach people up to it instead of writing them off
You'd rather fix the root cause once than manage the symptom forever

Responsibilities

Turn new account requirements into a runnable operational plan: layout, staffing, workflows, and service standards
Run the on-site setup, training, and first weeks of live volume alongside the local team
Coordinate with sales, logistics, and location ops so what was sold is what gets executed
Hand ownership to the local team once the account runs stable, then verify the handoff held
Travel to Saltbox markets to lead launches, operational resets, and high-priority initiatives
Diagnose operational drift, identify root causes, and implement fixes the local team can sustain after you leave
Partner with Market Leaders and Location Managers on execution: you bring the playbook, they own the building
Write the SOPs, playbooks, and operational standards that turn one market's win into every market's default
Design and deliver training that gets field teams certified on new processes and programs
Maintain a single source of truth for operational standards and retire outdated versions before they cause drift
Coach Member Specialist Leads and Location Managers through new programs until they can run them independently
Build train-the-trainer capacity in each market so adoption doesn't depend on your presence
Leave every engagement with a named local owner and a written handoff
Use operational data to figure out what to fix first and show whether it worked
Track adoption and outcomes for every program you launch, and intervene early when metrics slip
Report progress on launches and resets on a cadence leadership can plan around