Regional Manager

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

• 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