Event Bartender | Venice Beach - NeueHouse

NeueHouse is the private workspace and cultural home for creators, innovators, and thought leaders. With iconic buildings, timeless design, thought-provoking cultural experiences, and elevated hospitality, NeueHouse has reimagined the ideal environment for creative potential and progress.

Our Properties

NeueHouse currently operates across three different, but equally iconic properties in New York City and Los Angeles:

• Our Venice Beach House (VB) with a deliberate design and a true flair for California’s Gold coast style and demographics, all our environments and teams support, nurture and connect the NeueHouse community in reaching their creative potential

The Role

Our Event Bartenders are skilled and creative, able to call to action their vast knowledge to present options and guide all those who enter our doors. They are humble and quick to listen. While they are avid entertainers, they keep a constant eye on the bar and the needs of all around them. They are fantastic multitaskers whose constant workflow of friendly greetings, drink making, resetting, wiping, and polishing provides a seamless experience for our guests.

The ideal person will work to offer professional food, drink, and coffee service in a timely manner, while understanding all aspects of the menu and cocktail culture in an exclusive Membership environment. Must understand all aspects for the creation and execution of drinks and be able to develop new cocktails in accordance with brand standards. Undertake and perform all aspects of bar maintenance in terms of opening, closing, cleaning and general procedures daily.

Event Bartenders represent NeueHouse in providing hospitality, warmth, and grace with all interactions, supporting, and adding to NeueHouse’s collaborative atmosphere, and making the most of every opportunity to enhance Member and Guest experience.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience leading the bar program for high-end, highly visible entertainment entities.
• An advocate and ambassador of service excellence that understands the critical role that exceeding and maintaining service expectations plays in the success of building F+B operations.
• Supply expert knowledge of wine and spirits and ensure the quality of all beverage items, ingredients, and preparation methods while following and keeping to all local, state, and federal laws relating to alcohol service and consumption.
• Manage and oversee the upkeep of the beverage program to ensure an integrated, efficient, and profitable operation.
• Multitask a workflow of warm and humble greetings, cocktail building, food and wine service and operational discretion whilst providing a seamless experience for our members and guests.
• Attention to detail across all aspects of bar maintenance in terms of opening, closing, daily check list completion and bar equipment upkeep.
• Maintain a thorough working knowledge of beverage menus with the ability to articulate to members and guests in an engaged, knowledgable and thoughtful manner.
• Develop and coordinate the organization of various areas of the bar and other F&B outlets on property.
• Event set up / breakdown of bar needs on a daily level.  
• Count inventory at the end of every event and fill out pull sheet.
• Work multiple bar activations on the property that hosts several events weekly.
• Proficient use of POS for ordering and billing purposes. Thorough understanding of payment process standard operating procedures.
• Precise execution of the NeueHouse Sequence of Service, in a timely and accurate manner with the goal of creating memorable experience's.
• Clear communication with servers on orders to ensure the delivery of drinks are in a timely manner, and alerting the Bar Management when running low on any particular item's.
• Impeccable customer service by responding promptly to member/guest needs and soliciting feedback to the Leadership teams to improve service execution.
• Competency in conversing with members and guests regarding NeueHouse and our various programs and amenities.
• Implement effective policies to ensure that overall bar cleanliness meets State Health Code Standards, with the expectation of passing a Grade A. 
• Knowledge of craft and classic cocktails along with old world/new world wines.
• Evenings and weekends required.
• Must be able to lift/move up to 10lbs, frequently lift/move up to 25lbs and occasionally lift/move up to 50lbs.
• Must be 21 years of age or older and possess Food Handlers certification.

The anticipated hourly rate for this position is 28.00 an hour. NeueHouse is committed to equitable and competitive compensation and benefits packages for our team members and will consider many factors when extending offers of employment. Some of the factors we consider may include the qualifications of individual applicants against the position and business needs, years of relevant experience in role or industry, specific or unique skills, certifications or professional accreditations specific to the role, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the role. The anticipated range for compensation shared here does not include any other components or benefits that may be available.

Diversity & Representation: NeueHouse is committed to building and supporting inclusive and representative communities, long-term career opportunities and extends Equal Employment Opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

Benefits

• Salary Rate: $28.00 an hour
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Training & Development
• Free Food & Snack