General Manager

Compensation: $125,000–$165,000, depending on experience and qualifications

Title: General Manager

Employment Type: Full-time, Exempt

Reports To: Founders

Compensation: $125,000–$165,000, depending on experience and qualifications

Location: Big Bear, California

Big Bear Retreat Center (BBRC) is seeking an inspiring and experienced General Manager to lead the strategic and operational success of the organization. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring excellence across all areas of the retreat center—delivering transformative guest experiences, maintaining financial sustainability, and fostering a thriving, mission-aligned organization.

Working closely with the co-founders and leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing BBRC's vision of accessibility, healing, and transformation. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced leader to shape the future of a renowned retreat center nestled in the serene beauty of the San Bernardino Mountains.

Big Bear Retreat Center (BBRC) is a retreat destination located on approximately 100 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest, bordering an additional 800 acres of protected forest. Founded in 2018, BBRC was envisioned as a Southern California destination for residential meditation retreats.

While silent meditation retreats remain our primary offering, our mission also includes providing retreat space for mission-aligned organizations and making retreats accessible to people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience them.

BBRC hosts meditation, dharma, and respite retreats, along with retreats for nonprofit organizations and other mission-aligned groups. We have partnered to offer inclusive retreats, including the first residential transgender and gender expansive retreat, Spanish-language retreats, Black Women's retreats, retreats for teens of color, and many others.

Located just 2.5 hours from Los Angeles at 7,000 feet elevation, BBRC offers a peaceful mountain setting with four distinct seasons near Big Bear Lake.

Big Bear Retreat Center is a residential retreat center that provides space for mindfulness, respite, and healing to foster individual and collective transformation and illuminate our connection with nature, one another, and society.

Big Bear Retreat Center provides quality hospitality and care in a beautiful natural setting to foster connection, build community, and shape positive social change. We engage across worldviews, practices, and backgrounds to cultivate generations of leaders and changemakers who promote greater compassion, equity, and justice in the world—one retreatant at a time.

Guide the retreat center's long-term strategy by leading operations, finance, guest services, programs, and facilities to ensure a thriving, mission-aligned organization.

Ensure smooth and effective operations across all functions. Partner closely with the Programs Director to support seamless retreat delivery and exceptional guest experiences.

Drive financial sustainability through budgeting, forecasting, revenue growth, expense management, and resource optimization in partnership with leadership and the accounting team.

Represent BBRC with community members, partners, donors, and stakeholders while cultivating relationships that strengthen the organization's long‑term success.

Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of staff and volunteers while fostering collaboration, accountability, and professional growth.

Provide oversight of the Programs Department to ensure retreats and…