Advance Your Career
Candidates
Today’s candidates are often tomorrow’s clients, and mutual trust is built by creating lasting relationships. The Wray Group is the bridge to an essential network for successful executives in the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry. Become a part of our career network to gain the competitive edge you need to build an advanced career that offers rewarding challenges, personal and professional development, and access to others who share your passion.
We want every candidate to know right from the start that our goal is to find the best fit between the job opportunities offered by our clients and the candidates we recommend. We understand how important this is to advance your career. Therefore, we honestly give you as much information as we have at the time about the company, the specific opportunity available, and your status in the hiring process. With that said, we respect your decisions, too, because ultimately you are the one who has to live with those decisions.
The Hiring Process
Submit Your Resume
Use the form below to submit your CV.
We Identify a Fit
When a job opportunity arises that is in alignment with your objectives, we will contact you to provide a general description of the position, compensation, background check of the organization, time frame, and location.
Share Your Profile
For confidentiality purposes, we do not divulge the name of the company in this initial discussion of the job hiring process. We ask your permission to send your resume anonymously to the hiring company to begin the process for hiring.
Interview(s) with Company
We will maintain contact with you throughout the job hiring process. We promise to keep you fully informed of the client’s impressions and intentions.
Job Offer
We work with both you and the client in the final job negotiations because we guarantee our clients that our candidates will be the best match. To accomplish that we have to make sure that both you and the client are satisfied.
Begin Your New Career
It does not stop there. We continue our relationship after you are hired. We strongly believe that our candidates ultimately become our best clients.
Current Opportunities
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Location: Texas
A multi-unit QSR franchisee operating ~50 locations is seeking a high-performing Chief Operating Officer to lead the business with an ownership mindset, strong analytical rigor, and a bias toward proactive execution. This role is designed for a leader who can run the company day-to-day while helping drive enterprise value creation. The COO will serve as the primary operator of the business, partnering closely with ownership to improve unit-level performance, build scalable systems, and position the platform for future growth. The COO will have full responsibility for operational execution, field leadership, and performance of the P&L, overseeing Regional Directors and District Managers across all locations. This individual must combine relentless operational discipline, data-driven decision-making, strong leadership of multi-layer field organizations, and a builder’s mindset toward systems, structure, and scalability.
The ideal candidate operates like an owner—not a caretaker.
Click here for the position description.
Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southwest
An exciting, fast-growing franchise organization is seeking a COO who can transition the organization from a high-growth sales engine to a world-class operational powerhouse through optimization of system infrastructure, corporate organization, franchise support, and unit economics. With 30 locations open today and a robust domestic and international pipeline, the COO will work closely with the Executive Leadership team and franchisee stakeholders to drive systematic operational improvements and location growth. The ideal candidate is high energy, comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment, possesses exceptional communication skills, and thrives in a fast-growing organization.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: East Coast
A multi-unit, multi-state, upscale restaurant group is seeking an experienced, enterprise-minded Chief Operating Officer to lead operations through the company’s next phase of growth and performance. The COO is accountable for operational execution, financial performance, and leadership development across all restaurants and regions. This role owns the operating engine of the business—ensuring consistency, discipline, and scale while preserving the culture, hospitality, and standards that define our brands. This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring strong judgment, decisiveness, and the ability to lead at both the enterprise and field level.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southeast preferred
The Executive Director will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency, as well as developing growth strategies for franchise locations. The Executive Director will drive firmwide and systemwide profitability, operational consistency, and brand growth. They will bridge strategy and execution, overseeing supply chains, training, technology adoption, and franchisee compliance. In addition, a primary role of the Executive Director is to maintain quality and brand consistency across franchise locations as well as executing on key goals including rapid unit expansion, high-performance culture, and maximizing revenue.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: Washington, DC
Our client is a leading national trade association dedicated to advancing the restaurant and hospitality industry through advocacy, education, and cutting-edge business solutions. This organization is committed to innovation, professional development, and industry leadership, ensuring its members have the tools and resources needed to thrive.
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Email: rebecca@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southeast
We are an emerging, membership-driven wellness and retail concept at a pivotal stage of growth. With a growing portfolio of corporate-owned locations and a long-term vision for national franchising, the company is focused on building a scalable operational foundation while maintaining an exceptional customer experience and strong internal culture. We are seeking a Director of Operationsto serve as the operational quarterback for the organization. Someone who can stabilize and optimize the current business while helping architect the systems, people, and operational infrastructure required for long-term scale. This role is not simply about overseeing stores. It is about building the operating engine of a future national brand.
The Director of Operations will oversee all operational performance across our 7–10 corporate-owned locations while simultaneously preparing the business for aggressive franchise growth. This individual will lead operational consistency, membership performance, staffing strategy, and customer experience while helping transform a growing entrepreneurial business into a disciplined, scalable platform.
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Email: jonathan@wraysearch.com
Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
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Location: Midwest
We are creating a new Corporate Marketing Department to sit alongside the existing Marketing Committee and unlock a new layer of opt‑in, revenue-generating marketing services for our franchise network.
The VP of Marketing will be the founding leader of this department. This role will design, launch, and manage a portfolio of elective marketing services for franchisees (e.g., media buying, paid search, creative TV/OTT, social media management, POP, apparel, marketing automation, third‑party leads) while partnering closely with the Marketing Committee, which will continue to oversee required baseline services (websites, SEO, consulting, platforms).
This is a rare opportunity to build a marketing services business inside an established 36‑year brand, driving both franchisee growth and new corporate revenue.
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Email: rebecca@wraysearch.com
Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southern California
A growing restaurant organization focused on delivering exceptional guest experiences through operational excellence and smart use of technology is seeking a Vice President of Restaurant Technology. As the business scales, technology plays a critical role in enabling consistency, profitability, and speed across our restaurants. We are seeking a Vice President of Technology with deep restaurant systems expertise to lead, optimize, and evolve the technology ecosystem that powers our field operations.
The Vice President of Technology will serve as the senior leader responsible for all restaurant-facing technology and systems, ensuring tools are intuitive, integrated, reliable, and aligned with how restaurants actually operate. This role is highly cross-functional and operator-focused. The ideal candidate has lived in restaurant systems; POS, labor, payroll, inventory, accounting, delivery, loyalty and understands how technology directly impacts margins, team productivity, and guest experience. While this role will oversee broader IT considerations, the primary focus is restaurant technology strategy, execution, and continuous improvement.
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Email: ray@wraysearch.com
Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Submit Resume
FAQs
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No, we will never share your resume or personal information without your explicit permission. We value your trust and confidentiality, and you will always have the opportunity to approve where and when your resume is submitted.
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You will hear from us when we have a client with a position that aligns with your skills, experience, and career goals. While we review every submission, our outreach is tailored to match you with opportunities that best fit your profile.
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The duration of the process can vary depending on the specific needs of our clients, the roles they are seeking to fill, and how closely your qualifications align with those roles. Some placements may progress quickly, while others may take more time. Rest assured, we will keep you informed throughout the process.