Senior Food Safety Manager

At Sweetgreen, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Food & Beverage space, Real food, healthier communities, better futures for all.

<p>Sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthy communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day, in each of our restaurants, we are creating an environment where people can come together over a shared love of real food.</p>

<p>The <strong>Senior Food Safety Manager</strong> is Sweetgreen's technical authority on food safety and sets the standards that protect our customers in our restaurants. This role owns food safety strategy and program design across the full fleet, serves as the subject matter expert the restaurant teams turn to on complex and high-risk issues, and carries direct responsibility for food safety performance in the New York City Region. You will define how we measure and improve food safety, partner with senior operations and supply chain leaders on the initiatives that keep our standards ahead of the industry, and be the person our operators trust when something goes wrong in a restaurant.</p>

<p><strong>You will:</strong></p>

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<li>Set food safety strategy, program standards, and priorities for Sweetgreen, partnering with company leadership on major initiatives from concept through measurable results and using risk, audit, and regulatory data to focus effort and investment where it matters most.</li>

<li>Serve as the technical authority for the Food Safety team, guiding regional partners on complex investigations, high-risk escalations, and consistent application of standards across the fleet.</li>

<li>Own food safety performance for the NYC Region, partnering directly with operators to deliver world-class standards in the restaurants and maintain compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.</li>

<li>Own the NYC Region's third-party audit and pest control programs, reviewing audit results, sanitation violations, c

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