Bay Area Live-In Dog Sitter
Location: San Francisco, Marin County, East Bay, and/or the Peninsula, CA
Employment Type: Part-time, 1099
Schedule: Flexible
Compensation: $100+ per day plus tips
Start Date: ASAP
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional dog care experience
- Comfortable committing to live-in stays ranging from 1 day to 1 month
- Available to accept bookings up to 6 months in advance
- Strong, professional written and verbal communication
- 18 years or older, reliable transportation, and professional references
About G&G Pets
Grand & Graham Pets is an exclusive pet-sitting marketplace connecting professional, experienced sitters with dog owners across the Bay Area. We built our reputation on high-touch, personalized care and on supporting sitters who treat this as a real professional practice, not gig work. We exclusively offer live-in care from our clients homes; whether that be coverage for a day in the office or a month-long trip overseas, our sitters stay at our clients home as the primary caretaker while the client is away. We handle the client screening through our application-only marketplace, so all clients are pre-screened and actively looking for a new sitter to build a long-term working relationship with their dogs. G&G Pets retains a 20% marketplace fee from each booking, so sitters keep 80% of every booking plus 100% of tips.
What We're Looking For
Grand & Graham Pets started serving San Francisco in 2023 and rapidly grew to support Marin County and the Peninsula. As we continue to serve more of the Bay Area, we are looking for qualified sitters to pioneer serving our East Bay community, as well as support continued growth in Marin, San Francisco, and the Peninsula. Candidates who do best in this role have prior professional experience in dog care and prior client-facing corporate roles (sales, customer success, account management, or similar), or comparable customer-centric service industry experience, such as hospitality, with a high standard of excellence and attention to detail.
Who You Are
You are an energetic, self-starting “people person” who thrives on a flexible, dog-centric schedule. Your warm, personable, professional, and resourceful approach helps you connect with clients and pets equally, putting both humans and animals at ease. Clients are drawn to you for your professional polish, kindness, and sound judgment. Pets are drawn to your playfulness, ability to read animal body language, and calming demeanor. You're highly detail-oriented, adaptable, and an excellent multitasker; you have a knack for discerning underlying needs and reading between the lines to figure out what each client and their dog needs. You are comfortable staying overnight in a client's home for multiple nights and know how to be thoughtful and tidy when staying in someone else’s home.
This is a live-in role, meaning you stay at the client's home rather than visiting on a schedule. You're comfortable living out of a suitcase, settling into someone else's home and routine for days or weeks at a time, and adapting to a new house, neighborhood, and set of house rules with every booking. You don't need the comforts of your own space to feel settled, and you treat each client's home with the same respect and care you'd want shown to your own.
You're warm, friendly, and a naturally social person who can think on your feet when plans change quickly. You take initiative and can confidently adjust to different dog schedules and needs day-to-day, but you also know when to attune to the dog's needs that day and adjust accordingly. You're flexible and easygoing, able to adapt to a dynamic schedule and shifting priorities. You're organized and detail-oriented, and you enjoy keeping clients updated on their pets and take pride in leaving their homes in pristine condition.
You communicate clearly and proactively (especially via text), and you're comfortable coordinating with others, including the vets, trainers, walkers, and/or groomers as needed.
You have professional hands-on dog care experience from a setting like a shelter, vet hospital or clinic, training or behaviorist practice, dog hotel, or boarding facility, and you are comfortable being the only person responsible for someone's home and dog for an extended stay. You’re comfortable caring for reactive dogs or dogs with behavioral or medical needs such as separation anxiety, resource guarding, incontinence, limited mobility, or cognitive decline.
You are polished, professional, and genuinely enjoy managing relationships and expectations with people, and that same instinct carries over into how you communicate with dog owners. In addition to experience in professional pet care, a background with client-facing roles or comparable customer-centric service industry experience, such as hospitality, would be an asset.
Key Responsibilities
Client Care
- Review client and dog profiles ahead of each stay and communicate directly with the client to confirm care requirements and expectations
- Provide daily written updates and photos during the stay
- Handle last-minute questions or changes with professionalism and care
Overnight/Live-In Dog Care
- Stay in the client's home for the full length of the booking
- Follow the agreed-upon schedule for the dog's feeding, walking, playing, and any medication or special care needs
Home Care
- Maintain daily tidiness of the client's home for the duration of the stay
- Light tidying and cleaning up after dogs
- Wash and fold all sheets and towels at the end of the booking
- Leave the home in excellent condition at handoff
How to Apply
Please submit a cover letter, resume, and answers to the application screening questions.
Selected candidates will move to a video interview, followed by reference checks, background check and onboarding.
Note: Candidates without professional pet-care experience will not be considered.
Pay: From $100.00 per day
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- Where are you located, and which counties (San Francisco, Marin, East Bay, Peninsula) are you able to serve? Include your zip code in your response
- This role means living in a client's home, sometimes for weeks at a time. What does that kind of stretch away from your own space look like for you, and how do you stay comfortable and grounded during it?
- A client's dog you're caring for suddenly won't eat and seems lethargic, and the client is on a flight and unreachable for the next few hours. Walk us through what you'd do.
- Tell us about a time you had to manage a demanding or anxious client and how you managed communication and expectations. What happened, and how did you handle it?
- How many years of professional pet care do you have?
Work Location: In person
