The Opportunity
We are hiring a senior Restaurant Technology leader to own the end-to-end technology platform that powers Sweetgreen restaurants at scale. This role is responsible for front-of-house and back-of-house systems, restaurant-facing engineering, and the end-to-end support for restaurants ensuring speed, reliability, and operational confidence at scale.
The leader will be accountable for strategy, delivery, engineering execution, and support for all store ecosystem: POS, kiosks, kitchen systems, menu enablement, throughput and timing capabilities, store infrastructure, hardware, automation, and restaurant tech support, partnering closely with Operations, Product, Finance, Supply Chain, Data, Security, and Marketing.
You will build and run the store technology operating model: how we design, deploy, monitor, support, and continuously improve restaurant systems across hundreds of locations—while preparing the platform for future growth, new formats, and international/licensing expansion.
What You'll Do
Own Restaurant Technology, Engineering & Support End-to-End
Enable Menu, Pricing & Operational Change
Build & Lead High-Performing Engineering & Support Teams
Reliability, Scale, and Operational Excellence
Drive Innovation, Automation & Store of the Future
Modernize & Scale Thoughtfully
What We're Looking For
Experience
Technical, Engineering & Delivery Strength
Why This Role Matters
Restaurant Technology, Engineering, and Support directly impact speed of service, labor efficiency, accuracy, uptime, innovation velocity, and team member confidence. This role ensures that technology works when it matters most today—while also building the automation and Store of the Future capabilities that will power tomorrow's restaurants.
If you are energized by restaurants/retail technology, operationally grounded innovation, and building systems and technology teams that operators trust, this role offers a highly visible, high-impact opportunity.
Come join the sweetlife!
About sweetgreen
Sweetgreen is a national restaurant brand dedicated to building healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Since 2007, Sweetgreen has reimagined fast food to be fresh, flavorful, and rooted in relationships with farmers and communities. As we grow, we are committed to developing our people in our restaurants and at our support center, so that everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you not only invest in your own future but help create spaces where food, people, and purpose come together
Founded in 2007, sweetgreen is a destination for simple, seasonal, healthy food. We believe the choices we make about what we eat, where it comes from and how it’s prepared have a direct and powerful impact on the health of individuals, communities and the environment. That’s why we’re building a transparent supply network, why we cook from scratch, and why we’re building a community of people who support real food.
We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.
These six core values embody our culture, spirit and dedication to doing what’s right. They keep us aligned and help us make decisions about everything from the food we serve to the way we design our stores.
create solutions where the company wins, the customer wins, the community wins.
make decisions that last longer than you will.
cultivate authentic food and relationships.
create meaningful connections every day
leave people better than you found them.
celebrate your passion and your purpose.
Our mission is to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We know that sweetgreen is a critical link between growers and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. To that end, we’re committed to supporting small and mid-size growers who are farming sustainably, to creating transparency around what’s in your food and where it came from, and to creating more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. Because here at sweetgreen, impact is not an arm of our business, it is our business, and it permeates everything we do, from what we source to who we hire and how we support local communities. We want to make an impact and leave people better than we found them, and we tailor our approach in each market to reflect the needs of the community.