Café Manager / Head Barista

Responsibilities

• Lead café team and maintain coffee quality standards
• Calibrate espresso grinders daily and adjust for weather and bean age
• Train baristas in extraction, milk technique, and guest service
• Manage green coffee sourcing or relationships with roasters
• Handle café operations — inventory, scheduling, cost of goods
• Develop seasonal beverage menu
• Represent café at community coffee events and cuppings

Requirements

• 4–6 years specialty barista experience with leadership
• Deep coffee knowledge — origin, processing, roasting, extraction
• SCA certification (Q Grader or Barista Skills) is an advantage
• Team management ability

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Staff coffee allowance
• Professional development support — CDMX's coffee community offers training opportunities

Work environment

CDMX specialty café. The café manager role in CDMX's serious coffee market is a genuinely professional position — comparable in skill and knowledge to a sommelier in wine.

About the role

Coffee leadership in Mexico's coffee capital. The head barista who runs a Roma Norte specialty café with precision — consistent extraction, trained team, excellent sourcing — is building Mexico's specialty coffee reputation one cup at a time.