Territory Restaurant Manager

ATOMS
New York, NY

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience managing restaurant supply chains and a deep knowledge of the New York food scene.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience managing restaurant supply chains and strong local food market knowledge
    — “Knows the region’s food scene: neighborhood staples, the brands eaters keep asking for”
  • Individuals who can balance operational execution with strategic partner acquisition and process improvement
    — “You’ll own restaurant supply for the New York region: find the right restaurants, sign the partner, and make sure they deliver”
  • Professionals with a track record of managing teams and owning partner performance metrics
    — “at least 2 managing a team”

Things to consider

  • Requires frequent in-person visits to restaurants and facilities in New York
    — “Willing to be in the field: facility visits, restaurant walk-ins, tastings”
  • Candidates must be comfortable with data analysis and actionable insights from reports
    — “Comfortable with data: lateness reports, dashboards, and Google Sheets should not slow you down”
  • Spanish language skills may be beneficial but are not mandatory for this role
    — “Spanish is a plus given the team is based in Bogotá”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to diagnose and resolve recurring operational issues in restaurant settings
    — “If a partner’s prep-by times slip in month three, that’s yours to diagnose and fix”
  • Showcase your experience curating high-quality, travel-friendly menu items for delivery
    — “You curate items that travel well and make sense as a single packed lunch”
  • Demonstrate leadership in cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams
    — “Lead through others across time zones”
  • Emphasize your hands-on approach with examples of working directly in kitchens or with operators
    — “You’d rather be in a kitchen than on a call”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to build systems and processes from the ground up
    — “the playbook is half-written and you’ll write the rest”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Owning restaurant supply for the New York region
  • Ensuring capacity and on-time prep for partner restaurants
Typical background
Experience in restaurant operations or food deliveryBackground in supply-side operations

Skills & requirements

Required

Restaurant Supply ManagementPartner OnboardingMenu CurationTeam Leadership

Preferred

SpanishData Literacy

Stack & domain

Restaurant OperationsFood DeliveryMarketplacesHospitalitySupply-side OperationsPOS SystemsMenu ManagementData AnalysisNegotiationTeam ManagementLeadershipProblem-solvingAdaptabilityCommunicationTeamworkOwnership

About the role

Original posting from ATOMS via Greenhouse

Who we are 

At Picnic, we’re reinventing the way employees experience lunch at work. By partnering with top local restaurants and batching hundreds of orders, we make it easy for companies to offer high-quality, individually packed meals, without fees or tips. Our mission is to create a seamless, affordable, and joyful lunch experience that benefits both employees and employers.

About the role

As a Territory Restaurant Manager, you’ll own restaurant supply for the New York region: find the right restaurants, sign the partner, and make sure they deliver: enough capacity, prepped on time, packaged properly, with menus and photos worth ordering from. That means real ownership and real accountability from day one. You’ll spend time in facilities and restaurants, tasting food and talking to operators.

What you’ll do

Selection. Selection depth and cuisine coverage are a key KPI. You decide where it comes from: brick-and-mortar partners, standalone restaurants, and CK facility operators (with CK sales). You make sure every hub has real options at the different price tiers.

Restaurant performance. Signing, onboarding, launch, and ongoing health. You own the capacity model, drive on-time prep, and make the pause and unpause calls. If a partner’s prep-by times slip in month three, that’s yours to diagnose and fix.

Menu quality. Menus, hero shots, item photos, tags, descriptions, and ratings are your product surface. You curate items that travel well and make sense as a single packed lunch, and eliminate recurring defects: missing photos, broken modifiers, misleading prices, items the kitchen doesn’t make.

The team. You work with a Bogotá-based team across restaurant sales and onboarding, menu operations, and frontline support (POS, printers, tablets). You set the standards, SLAs, and routing, and improve the systems behind the work

Competencies

Food-Obsessed Market Expert: Knows the region’s food scene: neighborhood staples, the brands eaters keep asking for, the spot that opened last month that nobody’s covering yet. Can name the five brands we should be chasing off the top of your head.

Somehow-some-way mentality: Find a path to the signing even when the operator says no, the owner is unreachable, or the kitchen isn’t set up for batch orders. When a brand is a priority, you figure out how to get it on Picnic.

Data-Literate Operator: Read a lateness report or a cuisine gap analysis and know exactly which restaurant to call. Convert supply and performance data into a clear, actionable plan.

Builder and Team Leader: Close a partner in the morning and debug a menu modifier in the afternoon. Lead through others across time zones, and treat the same broken menu twice as a process failure, not bad luck.

Assertive Negotiator: Understand Picnic’s commission structure and restaurant economics. Hold the commission line and still leave the operator feeling like a partner.

What we’re looking for

5+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2 managing a team

Background in restaurants, food delivery, marketplaces, hospitality, or supply-side operations

Experience owning a supply base or partner portfolio, spanning both acquisition and ongoing performance

Working knowledge of restaurant operations: kitchen workflow, POS systems (Toast, Square, Clover), menu management, ticket flow

Comfortable with data: lateness reports, dashboards, and Google Sheets should not slow you down

Spanish is a plus given the team is based in Bogotá

Who you are

You genuinely love food, and you know your region

Self-starter who does not wait for a lead list

Comfortable with ambiguity: the playbook is half-written and you’ll write the rest

High standards and low tolerance for recurring defects

You’d rather be in a kitchen than on a call

Willing to be in the field: facility visits, restaurant walk-ins, tastings

Why join us 

Drive real impact: Be part of building the operational engine behind a fast-growing startup that’s redefining how work gets done.

Own your city: Take full ownership of your city’s performance and see the direct results of your ideas and execution every single day.

Work with purpose: Join a mission-driven team focused on making the workplace experience better for thousands of people.

Grow with us: At Picnic, there’s room to grow—personally and professionally—as we scale and take on new challenges together.

What else you need to know 

This role is based in our New York office location. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We’re constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week. 

The base salary range for this role is $99,000 - $117,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):

Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).

Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).

Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.

Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.

Pet insurance discount.

401(k).

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)

Time Off policies:

Discretionary vacation days

8 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time

Paid Bereavement leave

Paid Parental Leave

Benefits are subject to change at the company's discretion.

Atoms accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others? 

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Source: ATOMS careers (Greenhouse)

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