Office Manager at Garage (YC W24)

About us

Garage is building the platform that powers commerce across America's essential industries. We started by serving fire departments, where buying mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and waiting. We automate the entire transaction: payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. Months become minutes.

In under a year, we now serve local governments across all 50 states and have grown revenue >10x. We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M total raised) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. We're early, we're moving fast, and we're just getting started.

About the role

As the Office Manager, you’ll be the operational backbone of our New York City headquarters, ensuring our team has an exceptional in-person experience every single day. You’ll own the systems, logistics, and details that keep a high-performance office running smoothly - from managing vendors and stocking the kitchen to coordinating team celebrations and preparing the office for company events.

This is a highly hands-on role for someone who loves creating organized, welcoming, and efficient environments. You’ll work cross-functionally with every team at the company and play a key role in shaping the day-to-day employee experience as we scale.

In this role, you will:

• Manage day-to-day office operations including lunch logistics, kitchen stocking, workspace upkeep, office supplies, and ensuring a seamless in-office experience for the team

• Keep the office fully operational by proactively handling maintenance needs, coordinating with building management, cleaners, and vendors, and troubleshooting day-to-day office issues

• Own office procurement and logistics including Amazon ordering, inventory management, shipping equipment to remote employees, post office runs, and handling returns

• Support recruiting and onboarding logistics by coordinating interview experiences, arranging candidate meals, and preparing workstations, laptops, monitors, and other equipment for new hires

• Plan and coordinate in-person team experiences including birthdays, work anniversaries, team lunches, happy hours, and larger company events

• Assist with office events and offsites by coordinating logistics such as catering, bartenders, vendors, setup, and ensuring the office is fully prepared

• Manage company merchandise, marketing collateral, and employee materials including business cards and ensuring inventory is consistently stocked

• Support office growth initiatives including workspace organization, office moves, and continuously improving the employee experience as the company scales

We're looking for someone who:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where priorities shift quickly and no two days look exactly the same

• Is extremely organized with exceptional attention to detail, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks while juggling multiple priorities simultaneously

• Has a proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a no-task-too-small attitude and naturally steps in to solve problems before they arise

• Brings a warm, positive, and thoughtful personality that helps create an outstanding in-office experience and strong team culture

• Is highly reliable, resourceful, and professional in communicating with employees, candidates, vendors, and external partners

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience as an Office Manager, Workplace Operations, Executive Assistant, or similar roles

• Experience supporting fast-paced, high-growth startup environments or other dynamic, in-person workplaces preferred

• Exceptional organization skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities and deadlines

• Strong communication skills

• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguous environments, and proactively takes on tasks

• Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks

You could work anywhere, so why Garage?

• We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized after a recent $13.5M Series A ($18M in funding raised total).

• Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.

• We have a talent-dense, high-performance team where everyone joining now has an outsized impact.

• What we’ve built works. We’re backed by world-class vendors: Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and more.

• You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

The values that fuel us at Garage:

• Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.

• Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.

• Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.

• Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and stock options

• 100% covered health, dental and vision insurance (with additional buy-up options)

• Unlimited paid time off every year in addition to company observed holidays

• Daily lunch & dinner

• $100 / month wellness stipend

• 401(k) w/ employer match to help save for your future

• Pre-tax commuter benefits

• Bi-annual team offsite

• Relocation assistance

We realize applying for jobs can feel daunting at times. We don’t expect you to check all the qualification boxes and encourage you to apply if you have experience in some of the areas.

The per annum total compensation range for this role is $60,000 to $90,000 USD. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. An employee’s pay position within the wage range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. This compensation range may also be modified in the future.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where you can be you. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, natural origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected class.