Assistant Tasting Room Manager - Denner Vineyards

Job Req ID:107133

Job Type:Full-time

Work Category:Onsite

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Sponsorship:Not Available

Compensation: $70,400- $105,600

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A Taste of What You'll Do

As an Assistant Manager in the Tasting Room, you will play a key leadership role in delivering memorable guest experiences that reflect the heart of the Denner brand. You will help guide daily tasting room operations while supporting a team of experience professionals who bring our wines, stories, and hospitality to life. Through thoughtful leadership and strong operational execution, you will help ensure each guest interaction builds loyalty, drives sales, and reinforces our brand standards.

In this role, you will partner closely with leadership to plan and execute daily operations, special events, and wine club experiences. You will lead by example on the floor, demonstrating strong product knowledge, engaging presentation skills, and a commitment to exceptional service. You'll support staffing, scheduling, onboarding, and training while ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

You will also contribute to the business side of the tasting room by supporting sales performance, inventory management, reporting, and operational efficiency. By coaching and developing team members, monitoring performance, and helping implement strategic initiatives, you will directly influence guest satisfaction, wine club growth, and overall tasting room success.

This role is ideal for a hospitality leader who thrives in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment, enjoys developing people, and is passionate about wine, service, and creating elevated experiences.

Why Denner Vineyards?

Denner has earned its reputation as one of California's great wineries through a steadfast commitment to dry-farming, organic viticulture, and old-world, non-interventionist winemaking - including whole-cluster fermentation, native yeasts, and bottling wines unfined and unfiltered. At the heart of everything is a singular mission: to express, as faithfully as possible, the extraordinary terroir of our patchwork calcareous clay vineyards, which soar to over 1,000 feet above sea level. If you're passionate about crafting wines that truly speak to their place, Denner is where your craft will thrive.

What You'll Need

• High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 8 years of wine sales, luxury sales, brand marketing or hospitality experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Associate's Degree plus 6 years of wine sales, luxury sales, brand marketing or hospitality experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor's degree plus 4 years of wine sales, luxury sales, brand marketing or hospitality experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Required to be 21 years of age or older.
• Required to work weekends and a flexible schedule.
• Required to lift and move cases of product weighing up to 45 pounds.
• Skilled in reading, comprehending, interpreting and executing simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
• Skilled in writing simple correspondence.
• Skilled in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing using whole numbers.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

How You'll Stand Out

• Bachelor's degree plus 6 years of wine sales, retail sales, or hospitality experience.
• Possession of CSW, Certified Sommelier or WSET Advanced Certifications.
• Detailed knowledge of wine and wine production, with strong presentation and customer engagement skills.
• Proficiency in CRM, POS, Salesforce, and Microsoft Office applications, with a strong understanding of tasting room compliance and operations.

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Our Benefits & Perks

We are committed to providing competitive compensation, perks, and a culture that supports your well-being. Benefits depend on your work category and may include medical and dental coverage, 401k plans, profit sharing, pet insurance, company holidays, access to an employee wine shop, and more! Additional information will be provided before your first interview.

The Fine Print

• The Company does not sponsor for employment-based visas for this position now or in the future.
• Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by factors such as the education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.In addition to the salary, this position may be eligible for bonuses, incentive plans, or participate in tasting room tip pools, as applicable.
• This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting and requires working on-site with no telecommuting option. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.
• It is the Company's policy for job postings to be open to internal candidates for a minimum of 5 days and to external candidates, if applicable, for a minimum of 3 days.

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