👩🔧 Instructor & San Diego Manager
Girlie Garage is looking for someone who can stand in front of a room and teach with confidence and help run the San Diego side of the business behind the scenes. This is a hybrid role: part instructor, part local operations lead. You'll be the face of Girlie Garage at workshops and events across San Diego, and also the person keeping the trains running — scheduling, communications, and light administrative work — while helping grow our footprint in the area.
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This role is a strong fit for someone who loves teaching/empowering others but also wants ownership over how a local market runs. You do not already need to know the car stuff.
LOCATION
San Diego
TYPE
Part-Time Hybrid
START DATE
TBD
About Girlie Garage
Girlie Garage is a woman-owned automotive education and consulting company on a mission to empower people — especially women — to feel safer, and more confident in this giant machine they climb into everyday. We believe automotive knowledge creates independence. Through hands-on workshops, one-on-one consulting, and community partnerships, we teach the skills that should have been taught all along — in a way that's friendly, empowering, and never condescending.
What You'll Do
Instruction
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Lead Girlie Garage workshops (teen driver courses, adult automotive basics, "Under the Hood," seasonal workshops, youth STEAM sessions, and more) at libraries, schools, community events, and partner venues across San Diego
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Deliver content in the Girlie Garage voice: welcoming, encouraging, and jargon-free for beginners
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Set up, break down, and manage workshop materials and supplies
Area Management
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Serve as the primary point of contact for San Diego-area partners, venues, and clients
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Coordinate workshop scheduling and logistics across San Diego
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Track and report on local performance (attendance, feedback, partner relationships)
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Represent Girlie Garage at community events, fairs, and partner site
Administrative
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Handle day-to-day admin tasks: confirming bookings, updating schedules, managing supply inventory, light correspondence with partners and clients
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Support basic recordkeeping (attendance, waivers, workshop materials tracking)
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Communicate regularly with Girlie Garage leadership on local operations
Business Development
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Identify and help cultivate new contract opportunities in the San Diego area (schools, libraries, community organizations, corporate partners, dealerships, etc.)
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Represent Girlie Garage in early conversations with prospective partners
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Earn bonus compensation for new signed contracts you help bring in (see Compensation below)
Who You Are
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Comfortable teaching groups of all ages and experience levels, from total beginners to teens to adults
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Organized and reliable — you follow through on logistics without needing constant reminders
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Personable and professional; you represent the brand well in front of partners and the public
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Automotive interest preferred (professional experience, coursework, or strong hands-on familiarity, excited about vehicles/machines in general)
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Self-starter who's comfortable managing your own schedule and juggling teaching + admin work
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Based in or near San Diego, with reliable transportation to workshop and event locations
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Strong knowledge base for Microsoft office and Google Drive. We also use Canva, capcut and claude if you might already dabble
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Excited to learn new things about automotive that will help you personally save money
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Looking forward to to helping your community grow and be better together
Compensation
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Hourly base rate for instruction and administrative hours (rate discussed based on experience)
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New contract bonus: additional bonus paid for each new contract you help secure for Girlie Garage in the San Diego area, structured as a percentage of contract value or a flat bonus per signed agreement (final structure to be defined)
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Flexible, part-time schedule built around workshop and event demand
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We are really looking for a person who wants to grow with the company. Compensation can be flexible. We succeed when you succeed and vice versa.
Interested?
Send us your resume, a quick intro, and 2 reasons why you want to work
with Girlie Garage to: