What are the responsibilities and job description for the Personal Trainer and Mat Pilates Instructor (Contractor) position at Playbook?
Pay Range: $100 per hour for fitness classes and $30 per hour for floor support.
Location: 100 N Pacific Coast Highway El Segundo, CA at the beautiful Union House
Work Hours: You will be regularly scheduled for approximately 1–2 hours per week for fitness classes. Additionally, ideal candidates will have availability to support on an as-needed basis to cover consecutive-day shifts (either 6:00 AM–2:00 PM or 11:00 AM–7:00 PM) at $30/hour when the on-site manager is on PTO. Please include your availability in your application.
Reports to: Fitness Manager on-site
Your Mission:
Your mission as a certified Personal Trainer and Mat Pilates Instructor is to work directly with employees in a professional corporate gym environment, delivering personalized training sessions and group Pilates classes. You'll hold floor hours to support members, build relationships across the organization, and help foster a healthy, energized workplace culture.
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- Personal Training Delivery: Design and deliver one-on-one personal training programs tailored to individual goals, fitness levels, and physical limitations. Track client progress, adjust programming as needed, and maintain accurate session documentation to support measurable results.
- Group Programming: Lead engaging Mat Pilates classes for employees with varying experience levels, providing clear instruction with attention to proper alignment, technique, and safe movement patterns.
- Fitness Floor Support: Maintain scheduled floor hours to assist gym members, demonstrate equipment usage, and provide on-the-spot coaching to ensure safe and effective workouts.
- Safe Movement and Coaching Support: Apply strong body mechanics knowledge to assess movement patterns, correct form, and reduce risk of injury through proactive coaching and observation.
- Member Engagement: Build rapport with corporate employees and adapt communication style to align with a professional workplace environment while supporting a welcoming and approachable fitness experience.
- 1 years of experience delivering personal training and group fitness instruction. Experience working in a corporate fitness, hotel gym, or professional wellness setting is a plus.
- Current Personal Training certification (NASM, ACE, ACSM, NSCA, or equivalent)
- Mat Pilates certification from a recognized training program. Additional specializations such as corrective exercise, pre/post-natal, or yoga is a plus.
- Strong foundation in functional anatomy and body mechanics, with the ability to coach safe movement and explain techniques clearly
- Friendly, professional presence with the ability to build rapport in a corporate workplace environment
- Flexible availability, including early mornings, lunchtime hours, and/or evenings to support employee schedules
- Current CPR/AED certification
- Customer-Centric: In previous roles, you have exceeded what customers expected of you, you have an innate hospitality mindset and are happiest when you are serving others.
- Hyper-organized ball juggler: You stay extremely organized and are constantly reprioritizing your own work because it’s what makes you most effective. Everyone refers to you as a stellar multi-tasker.
- Stellar Communication: You are known for clearly communicating your points - whether in email or verbally. In this role you’ll be communicating a lot about bookings (both coordinating them and confirming), sending vendor communications, and engaging with different levels of tenants (office managers to C-Suite).