Regional Manager

Locals Automotive (Austin, TX) Full-time | Field-based across Austin | $100,000–$125,000 base + bonus | $175,000–$200,000+ OTE Build a market, not a maintenance plan. Locals Automotive is expanding across Austin, Dallas, and Arizona. We're hiring a Regional Manager to own the Austin market — the locations we have and the ones we're opening next. This isn't a caretaker role. You'd be standing up new stores, hiring and developing the GMs who run them, and setting the operating standard for the market as it scales. What you'll own Your GMs. You're a leader of leaders. Your job isn't to run the shops — it's to build the people who do, hold them to a standard, and make each one better than they were when you got there. Market P&L. Revenue, gross profit, and labor across every Austin location. New store openings. Site readiness, staffing, launch, and getting each location to run rate. The talent pipeline. Recruiting is the constraint on our growth. You'll be hiring constantly and you'll need a real point of view on what a great hire looks like. The standard. Consistency across locations is what separates a group from a collection of shops. That's yours to enforce. What we're looking for Multi-unit leadership is the requirement. Automotive experience is not. 5+ years leading multiple locations — district, area, or regional scope — with direct accountability for P&L Proven leader of leaders. You've hired, coached, and fired managers. You can point to people who got better under you. Growth experience. You've opened locations, integrated new ones, or scaled a market. You know what breaks at speed. Hiring judgment. You can articulate what a great manager looks like before you meet one. Comfort in the field. This role lives in the stores, not on a spreadsheet. If you've run a district of restaurants, a region of retail stores, a group of fitness clubs, or multiple branches in any operations-heavy business — you're who we're looking for. We'll teach you the automotive side. We can't teach the leadership. What you'll learn here The shop economics that drive the business — car count, ARO, close ratio, gross profit, technician productivity How digital vehicle inspections drive both transparency and revenue The systems we run on, including AI tools most independent groups don't have yet What we offer $100,000–$125,000 base depending on experience Performance bonus paid on a percentage of your region's combined net, with tiers that pay more as gross profit climbs and per-store kickers for your strongest locations — realistic OTE of $175,000–$200,000+, uncapped Health, dental, and vision Paid time off Direct exposure to ownership and a seat at the table as we build out three metros