PDL Sports & Social Club is building a leadership team to launch a high-energy hospitality and sports destination in San Antonio. We’re looking for hands-on leaders who can help shape the guest experience, build systems from the ground up, and lead with excellence from day one.
CAREERS AT PDL SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB
What We Value
Community
Be a connector. Help introduce people to the PDL lifestyle and bring new energy into the community.
Authenticity
Share real experiences. We’re looking for genuine storytelling, not scripted promotions.
Consistency
Show up. Great ambassadors engage regularly and stay active with their audiences.
Collaboration
Work with PDL on events, activations, and creative campaigns.
Creativity
Your style matters. The way you tell the story is what makes your content unique.
More than content. It’s community.
The PDL Ambassador Program is designed to collaborate with creators who reflect the spirit of Sports • Passion • Lifestyle.
Our ambassadors represent the energy of the club both online and in real life. They showcase the full PDL experience, from matches and tournaments to social gatherings, local food, and the moments that make the community special.
As a PDL Ambassador, you’ll receive early access to events, gear, and exclusive experiences while helping introduce new audiences to the culture we’re building.
PDL Ambassadors help introduce the club to new players, new friend groups, and new communities.
Whether it’s showing up for a match, grabbing food with friends, or highlighting a fun night watching your favorite sport, the goal is simple:
Show people what the PDL experience actually feels like.
IF YOU’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT SPORTS, COMMUNITY AND ELEVATED HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCES, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Careers at PDL
PDL Sports & Social Club is building a premium sports, hospitality, and lifestyle destination in San Antonio. We are assembling a leadership team to help launch a polished, energetic, and operationally disciplined club experience across sports, food and beverage, events, guest experience, and commercial growth.
Service Manager + Member Experience Lead
Full-Time | Food & Beverage / Front of House | Leadership Team | San Antonio, Texas | $60,000 - $75,000
Lead the beverage operation across Vibora Sports Bar, Pala Grill, and the Healthy Outdoor Bar, with full responsibility for standards, staffing, controls, and event-ready execution.
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Department: Food & Beverage / Front of House
Reports To: VP of Operations / Executive Manager
Leadership Level: Leadership Team
Location: PDL Sports & Social Club, San Antonio, Texas
Employment Type: Full-Time
Schedule: Flexible; includes nights, weekends, holidays, and event periods
Schedule: Flexible; includes nights, weekends, holidays, and event periods
ROLE SUMMARY
The Service Manager, Member Experience Lead is first and foremost a Food & Beverage Service Manager at PDL.
This role shares responsibility for daily front-of-house execution across Vibora Sports Bar, Pala Grill, and the Healthy Outdoor Bar, while carrying lead responsibility for client and member experience, reservations discipline, arrival flow, and the consistency of the day-to-day hospitality journey. This is not a standalone member services role.
It is a service leadership position that must balance daily outlet performance with stronger ownership of member experience, guest touchpoints, and polished hospitality delivery.
What is PDL
PDL Sports & Social Club is being built as a premium sports, hospitality, and lifestyle destination designed to bring together racquet sports, social connection, elevated Food & Beverage, and community energy in one integrated experience.
The club is designed to combine world-class padel and pickleball with a strong hospitality platform, programming, events, and a vibrant social environment. The goal is to create a place where members and guests can play, gather, dine, celebrate, and build community in a setting that feels polished, active, and memorable.
For the Bar Leader, this means the beverage role is central to the brand. Beverage quality matters, but so do speed, cleanliness, atmosphere, guest engagement, profitability, and cross-functional coordination. The bar is one of the most visible expressions of the PDL experience.
Food & Beverage Areas Under Scope
Vibora Sports Bar: High-energy sports bar and social hub, 160 seats. A vibrant destination for drinks, shared plates, live match energy, and social traffic before and after play
Pala Grill: Chef-driven restaurant experience, 190 seats total, 120 outdoors and 70 indoors. A complete dining platform where the beverage program must support food pairing, service rhythm, consistency, and an elevated but approachable experience.
Healthy Outdoor Bar: Wellness-forward outdoor beverage and light food outlet, 16-20 seats. A fast, fresh touchpoint supporting players, wellness-minded guests, and daytime traffic through efficient, clean, and brand-aligned beverage execution.
Event Beverage Scope
Rooftop events: curated social gatherings, branded activations, private functions, and elevated hospitality moments that require presentation, flexibility, and strong coordination between beverage, service, and operations.
Sports events: tournament days, league activity, match programming, and sports-driven traffic where beverage speed, replenishment, station readiness, and rhythm are critical.
Special events: private celebrations, corporate gatherings, group experiences, and custom occasions where the beverage operation must support both revenue goals and guest experience standards.
This role must help build an event-capable bar operation, not just a daily service bar. Beverage planning, prep discipline, staffing, inventory readiness, and execution standards must hold up across both regular operations and special event demand.
Key Responsibilities
Lead all bar execution standards across the PDL beverage platform, including daily service, prep, cleanliness, organization, quality control, and station readiness.
Build bar staffing plans, participate in recruitment and selection, and lead onboarding, training, scheduling, coaching, and accountability for bartenders and support staff.
Implement recipe and spec discipline, batching logic where appropriate, pars, ordering controls, and inventory practices that support consistency and margin protection.
Partner with Service Managers, Chef, Corporate Sales, Events, and Operations to ensure the beverage operation supports the full guest journey and not only bar output.
Execute event and group business beverage needs with discipline in timing, coordination, staffing, product readiness, and service standards.
Monitor and improve key bar controls including pour cost, waste, comps, labor productivity, cleanliness, service speed, and readiness for peak periods.
Protect the beverage brand standards of PDL through disciplined presentation, product consistency, visible leadership, and strong back-bar organization.
Create a culture of professionalism, energy, respect, ownership, and pride behind the bar.
Values and Cultural Operating System
High standards in execution, cleanliness, discipline, speed, and consistency.
Team-first mentality with cross-functional collaboration across service, kitchen, sports, events, and operations.
Accountability without ego, including openness to feedback and ownership of results.
Anticipatory hospitality, where the guest experience is shaped intentionally rather than reactively.
Culture building through professionalism, energy, respect, and pride in the work.
Leadership presence under pressure, especially in peak periods, events, and service recovery moments.
The PDL Way cultural operating system is a golden rule, not a slogan. Every leader is expected to protect it, model it, and build it through daily actions. The Bar Leader must be a culture carrier as much as an operator.
Qualifications and Profile
Proven +5 years leadership experience in bar leadership or beverage management roles within high-volume hospitality, premium casual dining, lifestyle-driven, sports, club, or event-oriented environments.
Strong knowledge of bar operations, staffing, beverage execution, cleanliness, inventory, cost controls, and event support.
Ability to lead with discipline without creating a fear-based or toxic bar culture.
Comfort operating in a start-up or build-phase environment where systems must be created, tested, and refined.
Strong cross-functional communication and willingness to work closely with operations, service, culinary, and leadership teams.
Clear business understanding of quality, speed, labor, waste, consistency, and profitability.
Professional presence, calm under pressure, and willingness to be hands-on during opening, ramp-up, and peak periods.
Bilingual English/Spanish preferred but not required.
What Success Looks Like in This Role
Consistent bar execution aligned with premium hospitality and brand standards.
Strong staffing, coaching, accountability, and floor-visible bar leadership.
Beverage speed, quality, cleanliness, and organization that hold up under pressure.
Effective collaboration with Service Managers, Chef, Events, and Operations.
A bar team that creates energy, professionalism, and guest connection without losing discipline.
Culture building that creates ownership, pride, respect, and attention to detail.
Compensation and Additional Notes
Base compensation range: $60,000 - $75,000
Bonus or incentive structure: Linked to opening execution, operating metrics, and business performance.
Benefits: To be defined based on final employment package.
Other notes: Candidate must be comfortable with a hands-on opening process, flexible scheduling, and building systems from the ground up.
Chef
Full-Time | Food & Beverage | Leadership Team | San Antonio, Texas | $55,000 - $70,000
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1. Position Summary
Department: Food & Beverage
Reports To: VP of Operations / Executive Manager
Leadership Level: Leadership Team
Location: PDL Sports & Social Club, San Antonio, Texas
Employment Type: Full-Time
Schedule: Flexible; includes nights, weekends, holidays, and event periods
Compensation Range: To be defined / market-based on profile and experience
Role summary. The Chef is responsible for building and leading the culinary operation at PDL across daily restaurant execution, bar food support, event capability, food safety, staffing, and kitchen culture. This is not a narrow back-of-house role. It is a leadership seat that must translate the brand promise into a disciplined, commercially sound, high-quality culinary platform.
2. What is PDL
PDL Sports & Social Club is being built as a premium sports, hospitality, and lifestyle destination designed to bring together racquet sports, social connection, elevated Food & Beverage, and community. It is not just a sports venue and not just a restaurant operation. It is a brand experience where every touchpoint should feel intentional, energetic, polished, and aligned with a high standard of execution.
The club is designed to combine world-class padel and pickleball with a strong hospitality platform, programming, events, and a vibrant social environment. The goal is to create a place where members and guests can train, compete, gather, dine, celebrate, and spend meaningful time in a setting that feels premium without feeling rigid.
For the Chef, this means the culinary role is central to the brand. Food quality matters, but so do consistency, speed, cleanliness, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to help shape a guest experience that matches the energy and ambition of PDL.
3. Food & Beverage Areas Under Scope
Vibora Sports Bar: High-energy sports bar and social hub, 160 seats. A vibrant destination for drinks, shared plates, live match energy, and social traffic before and after play.
Pala Grill: Chef-driven restaurant experience, 190 seats total, 120 outdoors, 70 indoors. A complete dining platform that must deliver quality, consistency, and an elevated but approachable experience.
Healthy Outdoor Bar: Wellness-forward outdoor beverage and light food outlet, 16-20 seats. A fast, fresh touchpoint supporting players, wellness-minded guests, and daytime traffic.
The Chef is expected to understand the purpose of each outlet and design execution standards that respect the different pace, menu mix, production flow, and guest expectations of each one.
4. Event Food & Beverage Scope
Rooftop events: curated social gatherings, branded activations, private functions, and elevated hospitality moments that require flexibility, presentation, and strong coordination.
Sports events: tournament days, team play, league activity, and other sports-driven moments where speed, flow, replenishment, and operational discipline are critical.
Special events: private celebrations, corporate gatherings, group experiences, and custom occasions where the culinary program must support both revenue goals and guest experience standards.
This role must help build an event-capable kitchen operation, not just a restaurant kitchen. Menu engineering may be defined centrally, but prep discipline, labor planning, communication with operations, and live execution under pressure remain essential responsibilities of the Chef.
5. Key Responsibilities
Lead all kitchen execution standards across the PDL culinary platform, including daily service, prep, sanitation, food safety, quality control, and line readiness.
Build kitchen staffing plans, participate in recruitment and selection, and lead onboarding, training, scheduling, coaching, and accountability for the culinary team.
Implement recipe discipline, prep systems, production controls, pars, ordering logic, and inventory practices that support consistency and margin protection.
Partner with Service, Bar, Sports, Events, and Operations to ensure the culinary team supports the full guest journey and not only kitchen output.
Execute event and group business culinary needs with discipline in timing, coordination, staffing, and service standards.
Monitor and improve key kitchen controls including food cost, waste, labor productivity, cleanliness, ticket flow, and readiness for peak periods.
Protect the culinary brand standards of PDL through disciplined plating, quality assurance, station setup, and strong back-of-house organization.
Create a culture of professionalism, urgency, respect, ownership, and pride in the kitchen.
6. Values and Cultural Operating System
High standards in execution, cleanliness, discipline, and consistency.
Team-first mentality with cross-functional collaboration across sports, service, bar, events, and operations.
Accountability without ego, including openness to feedback and ownership of results.
Anticipatory hospitality, where the guest experience is shaped intentionally rather than reactively.
Culture building through professionalism, energy, respect, and pride in the work.
Leadership presence under pressure, especially in peak periods, events, and service recovery moments.
The PDL Way cultural operations system is a golden rule, not a slogan. Every leader is expected to protect it, model it, and build it through daily actions. The Chef must be a culture carrier as much as an execution leader.
7. Qualifications and Profile
Proven leadership experience in chef or culinary leadership roles within high-volume hospitality, premium casual dining, lifestyle-driven, sports, club, or event-oriented environments.
Strong knowledge of kitchen operations, staffing, prep systems, food safety, sanitation, line execution, and event support.
Ability to lead with discipline without creating a fear-based or toxic kitchen culture.
Comfort operating in a start-up or build-phase environment where systems must be created, tested, and refined.
Strong cross-functional communication and willingness to work closely with operations, service, bar, and leadership teams.
Clear business understanding of quality, speed, labor, waste, consistency, and profitability.
Professional presence, calm under pressure, and willingness to be hands-on during opening, ramp-up, and peak periods.
Bilingual English/Spanish preferred but not required.
8. What Success Looks Like in This Role
Consistent kitchen execution aligned with premium hospitality standards.
Strong staffing, coaching, accountability, and culture inside the kitchen.
Food that is not only high quality, but also executable, repeatable, and commercially responsible.
Reliable recipe discipline, prep systems, cleanliness, and food safety standards.
Effective collaboration with Service, Bar, Events, and Operations to support a seamless guest experience.
Calm, organized leadership during peak periods, live events, and high-pressure service moments.
A kitchen culture that creates ownership, professionalism, urgency, and pride in the team.
This role will be successful if the Chef helps create a kitchen operation that supports the full PDL experience: daily service, social energy, event capability, and premium standards, all while building a team that can execute with consistency and pride.
9. Compensation and Additional Notes
Base compensation range: $55,000 - $70,000
Bonus or incentive structure: To be defined. Linked to opening execution, operating metrics, and business performance.
Benefits: To be defined based on final employment package.
Other notes: Candidate must be comfortable with a hands-on opening process, flexible scheduling, and building systems from the ground up.
PDL Sports & Social Club
The Chef is responsible for building and leading the culinary operation at PDL across daily restaurant execution, bar food support, event capability, food safety, staffing, and kitchen culture.
Head Pro Padel
Full-Time | Sports / Programming | Leadership Team | San Antonio, Texas | $55,000 - $75,000 + variable
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Job Title: Head Pro
Department: Sports / Programming
Reports To: VP of Operations Leadership
Leadership Level: Leadership Team
Location: PDL Sports & Social Club, San Antonio, Texas
Employment Type: Full-Time
Schedule: Flexible; includes mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, and tournament or event periods
Compensation Range: To be defined / market-based on profile and experience
1. Position Summary
Role summary. The Head Pro is responsible for building and leading the sports operation at PDL across coaching standards, program quality, lesson and clinic execution, coach staffing and development, member engagement, safety, and sports culture.
This is not only an on-court teaching role. It is a leadership seat that must translate the brand promise into a disciplined, energetic, commercially responsible, and premium sports experience for members, guests, leagues, clinics, tournaments, and activations.
2. What is PDL
PDL Sports & Social Club is being built as a premium sports, hospitality, and lifestyle destination designed to bring together racquet sports, social connection, elevated Food & Beverage, and community. It is not just a sports venue and not just a restaurant operation. It is a brand experience where every touchpoint should feel intentional, energetic, polished, and aligned with a high standard of execution.
The club is designed to combine world-class padel and pickleball with a strong hospitality platform, programming, events, and a vibrant social environment. The goal is to create a place where members and guests can train, compete, gather, dine, celebrate, and spend meaningful time in a setting that feels premium without feeling rigid.
For the Head Pro, this means the sports role is central to the brand. Coaching quality matters, but so do punctuality, organization, safety, member care, coach development, programming discipline, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to help shape an experience that matches the energy and ambition of PDL.
3. Sports Areas Under Scope
The Head Pro is expected to understand the purpose of each sports touchpoint and create standards that support player development, member engagement, lesson value, programming consistency, and a premium court experience.
Padel Program: Lessons, clinics, open play, tournaments, leagues, and private instruction, measuring the progress of the students and staff
To be confirmed: A flagship sports platform that should feel structured, energetic, social, and premium for members and guests across skill levels.
Pickleball Program: Lessons, clinics, open play, tournaments, leagues, and private instruction, measuring the progress of the students and staff
To be confirmed: A high-participation, community-building platform that requires excellent pacing, inclusivity, coaching consistency, and visible energy.
Coach Team: Head Pro leadership, coaches, instructors, and contracted teaching support as applicable
To be defined based on operating model: The people delivering the on-court brand. Their standards, presentation, and consistency will directly shape member trust and retention.
Sports Programming & Activations: Tournaments, socials, club play, branded activations, and member programming
Year-round calendar: A key driver of engagement, court utilization, community, and premium perception when executed with discipline and strong coordination.
4. Sports Programming and Event Scope
Daily coaching and court activity: lessons, clinics, open play support, member engagement, and visible standards throughout the operating week.
Tournaments and sports events: league play, ladders, round robins, match days, and competition-driven programming where structure, timing, safety, and court flow are critical.
Member activations and social programming: mixers, themed sessions, introductory experiences, and club-building activities that must feel organized, welcoming, and premium.
Corporate and special events support: sports components of private groups, branded activations, or company experiences where the sports program must coordinate effectively with service, events, and operations.
This role must help build an event-capable sports operation, not just a lesson schedule. Program quality may be designed with leadership input, but staffing discipline, court readiness, communication with operations, and live execution under pressure remain essential responsibilities of the Head Pro.
5. Key Responsibilities
Lead all sports execution standards across the PDL racquet platform, including coaching quality, punctuality, safety, court readiness, and visible leadership presence.
Build sports staffing plans, participate in recruitment and selection, and lead onboarding, training, scheduling, observation, coaching, and accountability for the coaching team.
Design and protect lesson, clinic, and programming standards that create consistency in member experience across coaches, sessions, and skill levels.
Partner with Member Experience, Service, Bar, Events, and Operations to ensure the sports program supports the full PDL journey and not only activity on court.
Support tournaments, activations, corporate groups, and special events with discipline in timing, staffing, communication, and member or guest experience standards.
Monitor and improve key sports indicators including lesson and clinic participation, coach utilization, retention, punctuality, safety, member feedback, and program fill rates.
Protect the sports brand standards of PDL through strong coach presentation, session structure, member engagement, and disciplined execution on and around the courts.
Create a culture of professionalism, energy, respect, ownership, inclusivity, and pride inside the sports team.
6. Values and Cultural Operating System
High standards in coaching quality, safety, punctuality, discipline, and consistency.
Team-first mentality with cross-functional collaboration across sports, service, bar, events, and operations.
Accountability without ego, including openness to feedback and ownership of results.
Anticipatory hospitality, where the member and guest experience is shaped intentionally rather than reactively.
Culture building through professionalism, energy, respect, inclusivity, and pride in the work.
Leadership presence under pressure, especially during peak play periods, tournaments, activations, and recovery moments.
The PDL Way cultural operations system is a golden rule, not a slogan. Every leader is expected to protect it, model it, and build it through daily actions. The Head Pro must be a culture carrier as much as a sports leader.
7. Qualifications and Profile
Proven +3 years leadership experience in racquet sports, academy, club, or coaching leadership roles within premium member-driven, hospitality-oriented, sports, or lifestyle environments.
Strong knowledge of coaching operations, programming, player development, staff leadership, lesson and clinic execution, and event support.
Ability to lead with discipline and standards without creating a fear-based or ego-driven coaching culture.
Comfort operating in a start-up or build-phase environment where systems, programs, and service expectations must be created, tested, and refined.
Strong cross-functional communication and willingness to work closely with operations, service, events, member experience, and leadership teams.
Clear business understanding of participation, retention, coach utilization, programming quality, safety, and premium member experience.
Professional presence, calm under pressure, and willingness to be hands-on during opening, ramp-up, and peak periods.
Bilingual English/Spanish preferred but not required.
8. What Success Looks Like in This Role
This role will be successful if the Head Pro helps create a sports operation that supports the full PDL experience: premium coaching, vibrant social energy, structured programming, event capability, and visible leadership, all while building a team that can execute with consistency, discipline, and pride.
Consistent coaching and court execution aligned with premium sports and hospitality standards.
Strong staffing, development, accountability, and visible leadership of the coaching team.
Programs, clinics, lessons, and cot activity that feel organized, energetic, and intentional.
Member engagement that builds loyalty, trust, repeat participation, and community.
Effective collaboration with Service, Events, Member Experience, and Operations.
Calm, organized leadership during peak periods, tournaments, activations, and service recovery moments.
A sports culture that creates professionalism, discipline, positivity, safety, and pride in the team.
9. Compensation and Additional Notes
Base compensation range: To be defined. $55,000 - $75,000
Bonus or incentive structure: In addition to base salary, the Head Pro will be eligible for variable compensation tied to sports programming activity and performance. This incentive structure is designed so that a percentage of revenue generated from private lessons, clinics, and summer camps may be added to the employee’s total compensation, subject to the final compensation plan, approved percentages, participation in delivery, and achievement of applicable performance standards.
Benefits: To be defined based on final employment package.
Other notes: Candidate must be comfortable with a hands-on opening process, flexible scheduling, visible leadership presence, and building sports systems from the ground up.
The Head Pro is responsible for building and leading the sports operation at PDL across coaching standards, program quality, lesson and clinic execution, coach staffing and development, member engagement, safety, and sports culture.