Job Description
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER
KidStrong Long Island City
*Your first real leadership seat. The on-ramp to running your own center.*
Location: Queens, NY Type: Full-time Comp: $55,000–$65,000 base + performance bonus
Most people wait years for someone to hand them a shot at leadership.
You’re not most people. You’ve been the coach who stays late, the one teammates look to when it gets loud, the person who’s quietly been doing the job above your title without the title. You’re ready for the seat. You just need someone to give you the floor.
This is the floor.
KidStrong is a science-backed child development program — physical, mental, and character training that helps kids win at life. Not a daycare. Not a drop-in gym. We’re opening in Queens with 6+ locations in the pipeline. The General Manager runs the business. You’re their right hand, the one who makes the center come alive every single day — and the one we’re grooming to run the next location.
What you’d actually own
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The floor and the experience. Every family that walks in feels it within thirty seconds. You set the energy, run a clean schedule, and make sure every class and every tour is dialed. This is yours.
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The team, day to day. You coach the coaches in the moment. On the floor, in real time. You hold the standard when the GM is off-site and keep the room performing whether they’re in it or not.
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Sales support and follow-up. You close trials and tours, follow up with every lead fast, and never let a family fall through the cracks. You don’t carry the revenue number alone but you move it every day.
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Community lead-gen. Events, schools, daycares, local partnerships. You’re out building relationships and bringing energy back to the center.
What you won’t own (yet): the financials, the P\&L, and payroll sit with the General Manager. Your job is to master the floor, the team, and the sale. Learn the rest by watching the GM up close, that’s how you earn the seat.
You’ll know it’s working by day 90 when
the floor runs tight whether the GM is there or not, families rave about the experience, your trial closes are climbing, and the GM trusts you to hold the standard without being asked.
Who this is for
You don’t need to have run a center before. You do need a track record of taking ownership somewhere — head coach, senior trainer, shift lead, military, college athletics, anywhere you learned that the result is yours and excuses are expensive. You’re early in the climb, hungry, coachable, and done waiting for permission to lead.
Who it’s not for
If you wait to be told what to do, see problems instead of openings, treat selling as beneath you, or your ego shows up before your willingness to help the family on the phone, or in person… You’ll be miserable here, and so will we. We mean it when we say Average Sucks.
The offer
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Compensation. Base $55,000–$65,000 depending on experience, plus a performance bonus tied to the center’s sales and retention goals.
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Benefits. Health / PTO / certifications \& ongoing leadership training
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The real upside. This is the on-ramp to the GM seat. We’re opening 6+ centers across Queens, which means we need General Managers — and we’d rather promote the person who already lives our standard than hire a stranger. Prove yourself here and you’re first in line to run your own location.
How to apply — read this part carefully.
We don’t read resumes first. We watch people lead. So skip the cover letter and send us a 60-to-90-second video (a phone selfie-video or Loom is perfect) answering two things:
1. Tell us about a time you took ownership of something that wasn’t technically your job and what happened because you did.
2. Sell us on one thing you genuinely believe in. Anything. Show us how you connect with people.
Start your application message with the words
“Average Sucks”
so we know you read to the end. Applications without the video, or without those two words, won’t be reviewed. (Yes, that’s on purpose. Attention to detail is the job. Send your video to longislandcity.ny@kidstrong.com)