Hospitality Project Director: Multi-Venue Openings Lead

Wish You Were Here Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wish You Were Here Group is a fast-growing hospitality collective operating 15 full-service venues nationwide. We seek a Project Director to own the master schedule, project budget, and critical path across multiple openings in the US.

You'll collaborate with Design, Culinary, Beverage, Operations, HR, and Marketing teams to ensure openings are on time and on budget, while coordinating procurement, permitting, and handoff to operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant project management experience.
• Based in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Arizona or South Florida.
• Willing to travel to project sites as needed.
• Willing to work in office as required.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the master project schedule, from design through permitting, construction, FF&E, and opening.
• Hold the full project budget across hard costs, FF&E/OS&E, soft costs, and pre-opening, managing contingency and change orders.
• Contract and manage the AOR, MEP, GC, expeditors, and specialty consultants; run RFPs, negotiate contracts, and chair OAC meetings.
• Own the permitting and licensing path through health, building, fire, and liquor approvals to TCO/CO.
• Coordinate every department's deliverables into one schedule and hold the cross-functional team to its dates.
• Oversee procurement, warehousing, and install logistics against the construction timeline.
• Lead the handoff from construction to operations, including punch list, commissioning, training access, and soft-open readiness.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Budget management

Stakeholder coordination

Travel readiness

Job description

Wish You Were Here Group is a fast-growing hospitality collective operating 15 full-service venues nationwide. We seek a Project Director to own the master schedule, project budget, and critical path across multiple openings in the US.

You'll collaborate with Design, Culinary, Beverage, Operations, HR, and Marketing teams to ensure openings are on time and on budget, while coordinating procurement, permitting, and handoff to operations.