Director of Hotel Operations Job at Weekender Hotels, Saratoga Springs, NY

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  • Weekender Hotels
  • Saratoga Springs, NY

Job Description

Director of Hotel Operations

Salary Range - $90,000-$100,000

What you’ll be responsible for:

The Director of Hotel Operations oversees day-to-day performance and long-term operational success for a portfolio of boutique hotels across the Northeast region. This leadership role provides direct supervision to General Managers and Area General Managers, ensuring operational consistency, financial performance, and an exceptional guest experience across all properties. Reporting to the Corporate Director of Operations, this position is based at the corporate office in Saratoga Springs, NY, and plays a key role in hotel openings, transitions, and property performance oversight.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

Leadership & Oversight

  • Lead, mentor, and develop General Managers and Area General Managers across the Northeast portfolio.
  • Drive operational excellence, team performance, and adherence to company standards across all hotel departments.
  • Leading weekly cadence of leadership meetings amongst the General Managers and Area General Managers to review KPI’s, quality, standards, etc.
  • Guide and coach GMs in achieving KPIs across guest satisfaction, staff performance, and property upkeep.
  • Conduct regular site visits and performance reviews to monitor property standards, guest experience, and team culture (30% travel - additional travel may be required with task force assignments).

General Manager Coverage/Task Force Coverage & Operational Leadership

  • Serve as acting General Manager during vacancies, vacations, or other absences
  • Manage day-to-day hotel operations with a focus on guest satisfaction, team leadership, and financial performance
  • Ensure properties consistently meet brand standards and operational policies

New Hotel Openings & Transitions

  • Lead or support the launch of newly acquired or developed hotels, coordinating between corporate, property teams, and vendors
  • Manage timelines, budgets, and project milestones to ensure smooth openings
  • Oversee staff training, systems setup, and vendor onboarding during transitions
  • Work in alignment with acquisitions team to ensure smooth transition from renovation to operations

Project Management & Cross-Functional Liaison

  • Act as the primary liaison between properties, corporate departments, and third-party vendors during projects and transitions
  • Manage schedules, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations to keep projects on track
  • Support special initiatives and ad hoc projects as assigned

Quality Control & Continuous Improvement

  • Conduct regular site visits and audits to assess operational standards, cleanliness, service quality, and safety compliance
  • Identify areas for improvement and collaborate with property teams and corporate leadership to implement solutions
  • Facilitate communication and best practice sharing across properties

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

  • 5+ years of hospitality management experience, including General Manager or Assistant General Manager roles preferred
  • Financial acumen with experience managing budgets, P&L, and driving revenue performance
  • Demonstrated success in multi-property operations, hotel openings, or transitional leadership
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to coordinate multiple moving parts
  • Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills
  • Flexibility with ability to travel with little to no notice 
  • Detail-oriented with a passion for operational excellence and team development
  • Proficiency with property management systems (PMS) and common hotel operations software

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with applicable laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Human Rights Law (HRL), to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers; handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; walk; sit; stoop; bend; push and pull; reach with hands and arms; wash hands and answer phones. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will occasionally encounter hazards, including slipping and tripping. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. 

About The Company

We are a young, fast-growing company (just recognized in the INC 5000 Fastest Growing Companies) of ambitious, mission-driven Weekenders working together to inspire personal growth through adventure, travel and exploration! We specialize in creating inspiring hotel stays for our guests in iconic destinations. 

This is a rare opportunity to be paid to learn, have an immediate and lasting impact in a young startup company and culture, and grow personally and professionally with an amazing team.

You will love it at Weekender if our core values below get you excited and inspired too!

  • Embrace a Growth Mindset

Always be a student and always be open-minded

  • Be Adventurous
  • Be excited by challenge and willing to fail-forward
  • Be a Ninja

Commit to being world class at your job and lean-in to your superpowers

  • Be a Host

Treat guests and teammates like you would family

  • Be of Integrity

Own your Domain: Be accountable to your job & the greater mission

Embrace honesty, transparency and vulnerability

Follow-through and do what you say you’re going to do

About Weekender

Weekender ( is an adventure hospitality brand that is disrupting the leisure travel space by inspiring the next generation of travelers to personal growth through adventure!

Founded by Keir Weimer in the spring of 2021, serial entrepreneur with a history of founding and growing successful companies in the luxury real estate brokerage space, multifamily apartment investing, multimedia business, and venture-backed technology company, Keir is now focused solely on his true calling and passion…to inspire travelers to personal growth through adventure, as he and the team grow Weekender into an international disruptor hospitality brand.

Benefits & Perks

  • Weekender provides excellent benefits to our salaried employees
  • Comprehensive Health insurance: 60% employer paid for employee only plans*
  • Comprehensive Dental & Vision insurance: 100% employer paid for employee only plans*
  • Gym membership reimbursement with health plan (up to $300/ benefit year)
  • Aflac supplemental benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Competitive 401k Matching Plan with employer match up to 4% of total salary - (eligible after 1000 hours worked)
  • Discounted employee hotel stays at Weekender properties
  • 3 weeks (15 business days) PTO (vacation/sick) paid vacation per year
  • Partnership with eCornell for continuous learning in our industry
  • Low cost Hertz rental cars
  • Employee referral program
  • Discounted employee hotel stays

* Subject to change annually based on health, dental and vision plan chosen for the year.

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