Office Manager

ABOUT US Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes. In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and 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. - 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 What we're looking for - You thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where priorities shift quickly and no two days look exactly the same - You are extremely organized with exceptional attention to detail, able to ensure nothing falls through the cracks while juggling multiple priorities simultaneously - You have a proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a no-task-too-small attitude and naturally steps in to solve problems before they arise - You bring a warm, positive, and thoughtful personality that helps create an outstanding in-office experience and strong team culture - You are highly reliable, resourceful, and professional in communicating with employees, candidates, vendors, and external partners Required - 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 Our values - Growth oriented. We invest in people who gro