Director of Operations

• DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS — ELK AVE HOSPITALITY
• Crested Butte, Colorado | Lead. Own. Win.
• If you’re the kind of leader who walks into a room and takes it over — this is your mountain.
• Elk Ave Hospitality is growing fast in Crested Butte and the Gunnison Valley, and we need an OPERATOR — not a caretaker — to run point on our venues.
• This is not a maintenance job. This is a BUILD job.

THE ROLE

• You will OWN operational performance across every Elk Ave venue. Full authority. Real accountability. No hand-holding.
• You call the shots on execution, guest experience, revenue, and team performance — and you’re judged on RESULTS, not activity.
• You work directly with GMs, Chefs, and venue leaders — but make no mistake, YOU set the pace.

WHAT YOU’LL DRIVE

• DOMINATE THE MARKET. Grow revenue, guest capture, market share, and average check across Crested Butte and the Gunnison Valley — and outperform the competition doing it.
• WIN THE SEASON. Attack peak season like a competitor, not a survivor. Build staffing and operating plans that let Elk Ave crush shoulder season while everyone else scrambles.
• BUILD LEADERS, NOT FOLLOWERS. Develop GMs and managers who make fast decisions and own outcomes. You don’t want order-takers under you — you want operators.
• HIT THE NUMBERS. Controllable profit, labor, COGS, prime cost — you know these cold, and you move fast when they’re off target. No excuses, no waiting for permission.
• RAISE THE BAR. Guest experience, product quality, venue presentation — you set the standard and hold people to it, hard.

WHO WINS THIS JOB

• A proven multi-unit operator who has RUN hospitality businesses, not just managed them.
• Someone with seasonal/resort/mountain-town battle scars — you know what peak season pressure looks like and you thrive in it.
• A closer. Someone who takes a P&L, a struggling venue, or a soft season and turns it around.
• A leader people follow because you’re decisive, direct, and you deliver — not because a manual told them to.

COMPENSATION

$130,000–$150,000 base. Bonus program tied to PERFORMANCE. Full benefits.

LOCATION

• Crested Butte, Almont, and the Gunnison Valley, Colorado — on-site, full-time, all-in.
• Nights, weekends, holidays, peak season — this is a leadership role, not a 9-to-5.
• If you’re built to lead and hungry to win — this is your shot.