General Manager in Training

General Manager in Training — Earn Your Club. Build a Legacy.

We're Not a Gym. We're a Movement.

Emerald City Athletics exists to bring health, hope, and transformation to the greater Seattle area — strengthening the stagnant and inspiring the indifferent. We lead our members to holistic health by helping them achieve real, lasting results — and unlike most of the industry, we don't stop at handing them a key fob. We guide every member through a proven system until the results actually show up.

Access doesn't change lives. Equipment doesn't change lives. Structure, accountability, and consistency do. That's the standard we hold, and that's why we win.

We're scaling to 22 clubs across the greater Seattle area, and that growth is built on one thing — leaders. Not managers with a title, but operators who can run a club, build a team, and deliver results. This role is how we forge them.

The Opportunity

This is the General Manager in Training (GMIT) seat — the performance-based path that takes a proven sales and leadership professional and develops them into a full ECA General Manager with their own club to run.

This is not an entry-level role and it's not for someone learning to lead for the first time. It's for the leader who has already carried a team, owned a number, and closed at a high level — and is now ready to master The ECA Way and step into a GM seat. You bring the track record. We give you the system, the mentorship, and the path. You earn the keys.

Why This Path Is Different

💰 Earn While You Train, Then Uncap It — Real income from day one on our performance-based model, scaling to $100K–$150K once you're running a club. (Full breakdown below.)

📈 Your Pace, Your Seat — No calendar-based promotions. We're opening clubs across the greater Seattle area, so the seats are real and there's more than one. Hit the standard and a club is yours — the best performer gets the first opening.

🚀 Growth With No Ceiling — We're expanding to 22 locations. Prove yourself here and the path keeps going: GM, multi-club leadership, and beyond. At ECA, performance is directly tied to opportunity.

🏆 Your Runway Is Earned, Not Scheduled

We don't hand out GM seats on a timeline — you earn them by proving you can run the standard. We're opening clubs across the greater Seattle area, so the seats are real and there's more than one. The best performer gets the first opening. Outwork the field and you'll be running your own club in a matter of months, not years.

Here's what you'll be developed and measured on before you get the keys:

🔹 Master The ECA Way — Learn and execute the 7 Habits, our service systems, and the dialogue that drives our member experience until it's second nature, not a script.

🔹 Lead From the Front — Prospect, drive guest traffic, deliver tours, and close memberships at the standard. You'll personally produce while you learn to lead others who produce.

🔹 Deliver the Service — Run first workouts, reprograms, and the service appointments that turn new members into lifelong results stories. You can't lead a team to a standard you can't hit yourself.

🔹 Build & Develop People — Step into recruiting, training, and developing the team using our tell–show–do–evaluate–redirect process. A leader's team is a direct reflection of their leadership.

🔹 Run the Numbers — Learn to read the stock report, manage payroll control, hit 100% of quota, and operate the club with an owner's mindset.

By the end, you'll own the three responsibilities every ECA GM is accountable for: hitting 100% of quota, building a high-performing team, and ensuring the consistent execution of the 7 Habits.

What You Can Earn — Now, and What's Next

We're performance-based, top to bottom. Your income reflects your production — there's no waiting on a raise tied to a calendar.

While You Train (Now): You earn on our hourly-versus-commission model while you produce on the floor — selling memberships, training programs, and services from day one. You're building the club and getting paid on what you produce. The right candidate earns in the $75,000–$100,000 range during the development phase.

Once You Earn Your Club (Next): Step into a GM seat and the ceiling comes off — $100,000–$150,000 per year through base salary, commissions on your personal production, performance bonuses, and a share of your club's profitability. Your club, your number, your upside.

The gap between those two isn't time. It's performance. Close it as fast as you can.

Who We're Looking For

✅ A Proven Sales & Leadership Track Record — Several years leading in fitness, sales, or a results-driven, service-based business. You've managed people, owned a number, and have the results to prove it.

✅ GM-Ready, Not GM-Green — You're not learning to lead for the first time. You're ready for your first GM seat (or stepping up from one), and you want a system worth mastering to get there.

✅ Optimistically Obsessed — You operate with belief and execution at the same time. You don't wait to feel motivated; you perform the common, uncommonly well, every single day.

✅ A White-Belt Mindset — Confident enough to lead, humble enough to be coached. You'll learn the ECA system the ECA way before you put your own stamp on it.

✅ A Heart for People — You genuinely love helping people transform — members and teammates alike. You lead by example and you take ownership as a victor, never a victim.

What You'll Get

✔ Performance-Based Pay With Real Upside — Earn on what you produce from day one, with the full GM earning potential unlocked the moment you take a club (see breakdown above).

✔ Full Benefits Package — Medical, dental, and vision insurance (eligible after 60 days).

✔ 401(k) Retirement Plan

✔ Mentorship & a Proven System — Direct development from leadership, a defined roadmap, and the playbook that runs our clubs. You won't be left to figure it out.

✔ Complimentary Membership — For you, plus one additional family membership.

✔ A Clear Path to Ownership-Level Impact — Run a club like it's yours, and bigger opportunities follow. We promote from within.

🔑 This Is the Standard. This Is the Opportunity.

We don't build this company on what people could be. We build it on what gets done, how consistently, and whether it meets the standard. If you're a proven leader ready to master a system, earn a club, and build something that lasts — we want to meet you.

🚀 Ready to earn your seat? Apply now.