Full Time Team Leader

In Chicago, the starting hourly base pay rate for Team Jeni’s Full-Time Team Leaders is $17.70/hour with the opportunity to earn an average of $27.61 per hour!* Team Leaders are eligible for tips and overtime (if applicable). 

*This is an estimate of hourly earnings. It is based on the 2025 base pay rate, plus 2024's hourly tip average. 2025 actual customer tips may vary. 

Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is searching for a Full-Time Team Leader to join our North Wells team.

At Jeni’s, we’re devoted to making better ice creams and bringing people together.  Our scoop shops are at the heart of how we serve this mission. They are where we offer the ice creams we work so hard to build from the ground up—where people come together to share joy and conversation. We love people. We love ice cream. We view ice cream as a form of art.

Full-Time Team Leaders are full-time employees responsible for leading shifts and performing limited executive functions, including inventory management and handling deposits. Full-Time Team Leaders act as coaches and role models for the shop team and are experts in all on-the-line operations and service functions. Full-Time Team Leaders typically work variable shifts, including opening shifts, closing shifts, and/or weekend shifts.  Reliable and predictable attendance is critical to this role.

Full-Time Team Leaders will report directly into a Shopkeeper or Shopkeeper Apprentice and their training will be specialized around all Daily Operation functions with an additional focus on training and coaching Ambassadors and communicating up to leadership, ensuring shifts run smoothly while providing world-class customer service.

Qualities of a Full-Time Team Leaders:

• Full-time presence with night and weekend availability

• Passion for customer service and exemplary role model

• Energetic, positive, and skillful communicator

• Strong work ethic, great judgment, and good heart

• Calm under pressure and handles adversity with grace

• Master of daily operations and delegation

• Committed to the well-being of their shop team, their community, and the environment around them

Benefits of a Full-Time Team Leaders:

• 10 paid vacation days per year when a full year is worked

• 5 paid sick days per year when a full year is worked

• 10 paid holiday days annually

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance (single and family coverage available)

• 4% match on 401k contributions after 3 months of employment 

• One-month paid sabbatical after 3 years of continuous employment

• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off annually 

• 50% discount at Jeni’s Scoop Shops and online and one free serving per shift

• Career development toward Shopkeeper Apprentice and beyond

About Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams:

Founded by Jeni Britton in 2002, Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is a B Corp headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with scoop shops in over twenty cities across the country, making it possible for members of Team Jeni’s who are interested in developing their careers, or transitioning to a new city, to have meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and explore.

Our Service Assistants make a difference in their shop, their community, and in how they lead their team and serve their customers. If this opportunity sounds delicious to you, please apply.

Jeni's is an equal opportunity employer. Said our way, we love and honor differences, and we love sharing common values such as talent, hustle, guts, resilience, and empathy. Our differences are a primary source of our team's strength and we crave having a team rich with diversity which is creativity and art in its human form.