What are the responsibilities and job description for the Office Manager position at Garage?
Office Manager at Garage (YC W24)
About Garage
Garage is a marketplace for specialized vehicles and equipment, starting with emergency vehicles. By automating every part of the transaction—including payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing—we reduce what used to take months down to minutes. We're building the modern platform that powers commerce across America’s essential industries.
We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M in total funding) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. In less than a year, our team has already served customers in all 50 states – and we’re just getting started.
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
More About Garage
Our values
The per annum total compensation range for this role is $60,000 to $90,000 USD, and includes base salary equity benefits. 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.
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.
About Garage
Garage is a marketplace for specialized vehicles and equipment, starting with emergency vehicles. By automating every part of the transaction—including payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing—we reduce what used to take months down to minutes. We're building the modern platform that powers commerce across America’s essential industries.
We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M in total funding) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. In less than a year, our team has already served customers in all 50 states – and we’re just getting started.
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
- 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
- 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
- We’ve grown revenue 10x in the last year
- We’ve raised $18M in funding (including a recent $13.5M Series A) and are well capitalized
- We have a product loved by users– used daily to procure mission-critical equipment across the country
- We’re punching well above our weight– everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact
- We have a talent dense team operating in a high performance culture, in-person in NYC
- We’re backed by world class investors including Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and more
More About Garage
Our values
- 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 love 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.
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents
- Enjoy daily catered lunches at our New York City office
- Unlimited paid time off every year
- $100 / month wellness stipend
- Bi-annual team offsite
The per annum total compensation range for this role is $60,000 to $90,000 USD, and includes base salary equity benefits. 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.
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.
Salary : $60,000 - $90,000