Operations Manager

Operations & Hospitality Manager - Job Posting

Company: Picklehall
Location: Apple Valley, MN
Job Type: Part-Time, Hourly
Expected Hours: 30–40 hours per week
Pay: $30.00 per hour, plus potential bonus incentive
Opening: Fall 2026

About Picklehall

Picklehall is a new year-round pickleball, food, and entertainment destination opening in Apple Valley in fall 2026. With 18 indoor pickleball courts, a food hall, self-serve taps, outdoor patio seating, firepits, games, and gathering spaces, Picklehall is designed for people to play, eat, gather, celebrate, and connect.

Our promise is simple: Play and Stay. Stay and Play.

About the Role

The Pickleball & Hospitality Manager will help lead daily operations, guest experience, staff coordination, pickleball programming, food hall support, and events. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hospitality, recreation, team leadership, and creating a safe, welcoming, high-quality experience for guests of all ages and skill levels.

What You’ll Do

• Support daily operations across the front desk, courts, food hall, events, and guest experience.
• Lead and coach front desk staff and assigned food hall team members.
• Support open play, clinics, leagues, tournaments, group events, and community activities.
• Help create a safe, clean, respectful, and welcoming environment for guests, players, families, and staff.
• Respond to guest questions, concerns, and service needs with professionalism and care.
• Support scheduling, training, communication, reservations, programming, and operational follow-up.
• Help prepare for opening by supporting staff training, facility readiness, operating procedures, and launch events.

What We’re Looking For

• 4 or more years of management, supervisory, or team leadership experience.
• Knowledge of pickleball and enthusiasm for the player/guest experience.
• Food service, hospitality, recreation, entertainment, restaurant, sports facility, or customer-facing operations experience.
• Strong customer service, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting events, programs, leagues, tournaments, or group activities.
• Comfort using Microsoft Office and app-based technology.
• CPR and AED certification, or willingness to obtain certification within a required timeframe.

Schedule

This role requires flexibility to work weekdays, weekends, evenings, holidays, opening shifts, midday shifts, and closing shifts based on business needs.

Physical Requirements

This role takes place in an active recreation, hospitality, and entertainment environment. With or without reasonable accommodation, employees may be required to stand, walk, sit, reach, bend, climb, move throughout a 67,000 -square-foot facility, and occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull items needed for daily operations and events.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.

Pay and Benefits

• $30.00 per hour for all hours worked
• Potential bonus incentive structure
• Discounts on pickleball and food hall purchases
• Subsidized Picklehall membership
• Training and professional development
• Paid time off, including 5 to 10 vacation days per calendar year based on tenure
• Paid sick leave where required by law

Equal Employment Opportunity

Picklehall is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where people are treated with dignity and respect. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, business needs, and applicable law. Picklehall does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status.

Pay: From $30.00 per hour

Expected hours: 30.0 – 40.0 per week

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person