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Garage is building a marketplace for the procurement and disposition of expensive, specialized, and difficult-to-move assets across America's essential industries. The company automates discovery, payments, freight, warranty, and financing, operating across all 50 states with $100M+ in annualized transaction volume. Founded two years ago starting with fire departments, Garage has expanded into EMS and heavy-duty verticals, achieving >10x revenue growth last year. The company has raised $18M including a $13.5M Series A from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, and FJ Labs.
As a Business Operations Associate, you will be a true operator helping Garage run by working across nearly every part of the company. You'll build processes from scratch, fix things that aren't working, coordinate across teams, and own critical initiatives required to keep a fast-growing startup moving. You'll gain unusual exposure to how a startup operates—from People and Finance to GTM, Product, company planning, and leadership decision-making. Some projects will be highly visible; others will be behind-the-scenes but equally critical. As you build context and earn trust, you'll take on increasingly strategic projects, making this an ideal role for someone who wants to learn how to run a company from the inside out and ultimately grow into a startup leader or Chief of Staff.
Key responsibilities include: owning the systems, processes, and recurring workstreams that keep Garage running smoothly, including core internal operations like People Ops, benefits, compliance, and insurance; stepping into ambiguous problems without clear owners, creating structure, and driving them from open question to completed outcome; identifying inefficiencies and building scalable, repeatable processes that make the company faster and more effective; and working cross-functionally to coordinate priorities, unblock execution, and drive important company-wide initiatives forward.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
- 2+ years of experience at a startup in an execution-focused role, investment banking, consulting, as a founder, in business development, or related roles
- Natural operator mindset with a strong bias toward action—you see something that needs to get done and take ownership of figuring it out
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever the company needs, from building a new process to handling small but important details
- Exceptional organization and reliability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities without letting things fall through the cracks
- Comfort with ambiguity, a steep learning curve, and the ability to bring structure to problems you may have never encountered before
- Intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking, paired with a strong desire to turn ideas into action and make the people around you more effective
