Senior Director, Food & Beverage Operations and Strategy

Job Description

Job Description

 

Create Your Experience of a Lifetime!

 

Come work and play in the mountains! Whether it’s your first-time seeing snow or you were born on the slopes, joining our team means discovering (or re-discovering!) a passion for the outdoors while building lifelong connections with teammates and guests from around the world.

 

With 40+ resorts across 3 continents, you can join our team for a season or stay to build a career. From day one, you'll receive some of the highest compensation rates in the industry, free Epic pass(es) along with free ski and snowboard lessons, 40% retail discounts, the chance to grow through Epic Service - our leading training and development experience, and wellness benefits to fuel your success.

 

Candidates for year-round positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted up to 90 days after the posting date, or until the position is filled (whichever is first).

Job Benefits

• Ski/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons 
• MORE employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles
• 401(k) Retirement Plan 
• Employee Assistance Program
• Excellent training and professional development
• Referral Program
  
  
  

Full Time roles are eligible for the above, plus:

• Health Insurance; Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours)
• Free ski passes for dependents
• Critical Illness and Accident plans

 

Job Summary:
Park City Mountain is seeking a senior resort leader to shape one of the most visible and high-impact parts of the guest experience at the largest ski resort in the US. As the strategic business leader for Food & Beverage, this role is accountable for the performance, growth, and long-term success of 11 outlets, two warehouses, and banquet operations across a dynamic, world-class mountain resort. The operation spans high-volume quick-service outlets, full-service restaurants, après and event spaces.

 

This leader will set the vision and drive execution across a highly seasonal business where guest expectations, weather, visitation patterns, employee experience, mountain logistics, safety, and financial performance intersect every day. As a member of the resort’s senior leadership team, this person will help shape the broader Park City Mountain experience—not simply the Food & Beverage function—while partnering with central Food & Beverage and cross-functional resort teams to deliver exceptional guest experiences, strong employee engagement, community engagement, disciplined financial results, and operational excellence.

 

Job Specifications:

• Starting Wage: $145,000 - $165,000 + annual bonus + equity
• Employment Type: Year Round 
• Shift Type: Full Time hours
• Minimum Age: At least 18 years of age 
• Housing Availability: No

The Right Candidate Will Demonstrate:

 

Guest Experience Focus: Ensures Food & Beverage as a signature part of the Park City Mountain experience—creating memorable moments that strengthen guest loyalty and strengthen the resort’s brand.

• Set clear service, quality, speed, and presentation standards that bring the resort brand to life across every outlet and guest touchpoint.
• Build operating models that flex with weather, demand, and mountain volume while preserving genuine hospitality.
• Use guest insights, frontline observation, and cross-functional partnerships to remove friction and continuously improve the dining experience.

Relentless Executor and Results Driver: Turns strategy into action with urgency, discipline, and clear accountability—delivering measurable results.

• Translate vision into practical plans, clear priorities, and disciplined execution.
• Use data, operating rhythms, and service standards to identify gaps and accelerate performance.
• Create clarity, remove barriers, and hold leaders accountable for results.

Enterprise Thinker: Operates as a senior resort leader first—balancing Food & Beverage priorities with the broader needs of the guest experience, employee experience, operations, and financial performance.

• Make decisions through a whole-resort lens, not a single-department view.
• Create alignment and followership through visible leadership, clear communication, and shared commitment to resort success.

Builder of High-Performing Teams and Culture: Attracts, develops, and retains strong leaders who create a culture of accountability, inclusion, engagement, and pride in delivering an exceptional resort experience.

• Develop future leaders who are ready for broader resort and enterprise opportunities.
• Make effective talent decisions by assessing capabilities, aligning people to roles where they can thrive and address performance issues directly.
• Create a winning culture where teams have ownership, understand expectations, and are motivated to continuously improve.

Adaptive Analytical Leader: Uses data, insights, and agility to lead through ambiguity, shifting conditions, and competing priorities without losing focus on the long-term business.

• Make sound decisions with imperfect information and adjust quickly as facts change.
• Anticipate changing business conditions and proactively adjust plans, resources, and operating approaches to maintain performance.
• Balance immediate operating needs with long-term strategy.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Own the performance of the resort’s Food and Beverage business, delivering revenue growth, profitability, guest satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational excellence across the resort’s F&B portfolio.
• Serve as a strategic member of the resort senior leadership team, shaping the vision for the resort, contributing to resort-wide business decisions, guest experience strategy, workforce planning, capital planning, and operational excellence.
• Partner with culinary leadership and the central Food & Beverage support team to implement, best practices, elevate food quality and drive operational and commercial growth.
• Ensure consistent guest service, product quality, brand standards, and employee experience across every outlet, banquet, warehouse, and event space.
• Build and develop a high performing leadership team through clear expectations, succession planning, talent development and accountability to business outcomes and team culture.
• Lead talent and workforce strategy across the F&B organization, ensuring staffing. Leadership capability, training, employee engagement, retention, and workforce effectiveness to support both peak season and year-round operations.
• Lead a culture of safety and ensure compliance with health, sanitation, liquor-license, labor, environmental, recycling, waste-diversion, and company policy requirements.
• Maintain kitchens, dining rooms, bars, warehouses, restrooms, exterior areas, and event spaces to standards for safety, cleanliness, readiness, and presentation.
• Plan staffing, hours, outlet readiness, purchasing, and planning around the mountain operating calendar, including opening day, holiday peaks, powder days, spring close, and seasonal training surges.
• Identify, develop, and prioritize the F&B capital roadmap including business cases for venue renovations and new concepts to enhance guest experience, operational efficiency, and financial performance.

Job Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years of senior leadership experience in a complex, high-volume hospitality, resort, or food and beverage environment.
• Restaurant and resort experience, preferably in a seasonal or mountain destination setting.
• ServSafe and TIPS certifications, or ability to obtain required certifications prior to start.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Experience with PeopleSoft, InfoGenesis, or similar workforce, financial, and point-of-sale systems.

 

The expected pay range is $145,000 - $165,000 + annual bonus + equity. This is the pay range we reasonably expect to pay for this position. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.

 

In completing this application, and when submitting related documentation, applicants may redact information that identifies their age, date of birth, and/or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. 

 

We follow all federal, state, and local laws including restrictions on child/minor labor. Minors hired into this position will not be asked or permitted to engage in any activities restricted to adult workers.

 

Vail Resorts is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.

 

Requisition ID 516813
Reference Date: 08/21/2026 
Job Code Function: F&B General Management