Area Manager Jobs in Tennessee
Area Manager jobs in Tennessee are concentrated in retail, logistics, food and beverage, and distribution operations, with demand at every level from first-time area managers to multi-unit directors overseeing statewide territories. Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga are the most active hiring metros, anchored by employers like Dollar General, FedEx, and Pilot Company, which maintain large regional and corporate footprints in the state. The most consistent openings are in retail district management, warehouse and fulfillment operations, and franchise group oversight. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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About Kasa
Kasa is the leading tech-enabled hotel and apartment hotel brand and manager. We partner with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties to deliver stylish, professionally managed accommodations to business and leisure travelers alike. We took the best that hotels and short-term rentals had to offer and created a new class of hospitality that is well-priced, reliable, and offers a large selection of great locations.
Unlike traditional hotel operators, we prioritize automation, AI-driven pricing, and data-driven decision-making to optimize revenue and improve guest experiences. Behind the scenes, we build technology that combines with our innovative operations to grow a globally scalable offering that delivers high-quality stays to guests. Our guests enjoy seamless check-ins, caring service, and attractive amenities — and if anything comes up, our on-site and remote guest experience team is available throughout their stay, ensuring our hospitality is rarely seen but always felt.
The Role
Required to live in a market with at least one assigned Kasa property located in it.
As an Area General Manager (AGM) at Kasa, you will be fully responsible for the financial and operational performance of a defined geographic area, overseeing a set of properties across hotel and multi-family products. This role demands a hands-on leader with strong operational expertise, direct P&L accountability, and the ability to balance diverse partner relationships and guest experience expectations.
The AGM role is highly execution-focused, requiring deep engagement with onsite teams and property operations to ensure seamless service, operational efficiency, and financial success. You will spend approximately 95% of your time in-market (with most of in-market time spent onsite at Kasa properties) coaching teams, inspecting execution, and upholding a high bar for guest experience and operational standards. This will require regional travel, including air travel, to effectively manage properties across multiple locations.
At Kasa, hospitality is at the core of everything we do, and as an AGM, you will be a direct leader of multiple property-level teams, setting expectations, inspecting what you expect, and ensuring every guest interaction meets Kasa's high service and hospitality standards. In addition to onsite leadership, you will play a critical role in financial oversight, ensuring your properties align with revenue optimization strategies, cost control initiatives, and leasing activation plans.
Under the direction of your direct supervisor, you will work cross-functionally with Revenue Management, Finance, Marketing, People, and Guest Experience, ensuring that operational decisions align with financial objectives and broader business strategies. Additionally, you will serve as the primary liaison between Kasa and property partners, communicating performance insights and forward-looking strategies to optimize asset value.
This role requires a balance of operational execution and strategic planning, both executed with hospitality as a guiding throughline, ensuring that your properties operate efficiently, your teams perform at a high level, and your financial targets are met.
How This Role Aligns with the Regional POD
The Regional Director leads the POD and sets the strategic vision and priorities, while AGMs and other GM-level team members are responsible for executing financial and operational strategies at the property level.
- AGMs have direct P&L accountability, ensuring that revenue management strategies and cost controls directly impact their P&Ls.
- AGMs are hands-on leaders in the field, spending most of their time onsite, directly coaching teams and overseeing property operations.
- AGMs influence POD resource allocation, advocating for the needs of their properties while ensuring alignment with regional leadership, revenue, and financial strategies.
- AGMs work closely with centralized teams (Revenue Management, Finance, and Guest Experience) to optimize portfolio performance and guest experience.
While the Regional Director oversees regional performance, AGMs must fully own their operational and financial outcomes, proactively identifying challenges and implementing solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Execution & Hospitality Leadership
- Own the end-to-end guest and employee journeys, not just their experiences, ensuring that every need is met at every touchpoint and that effort is minimized for both groups.
- Directly lead and manage onsite teams, ensuring they are highly engaged, well-trained, and delivering exceptional hospitality experiences.
- Set clear expectations and inspect what you expect, conducting regular site visits to assess operational execution, service quality, and team performance.
- Hold teams accountable for meeting Kasa's brand standards, ensuring that every guest interaction, whether in-person or through centralized support, is seamless and exceeds expectations; ensuring consistency across all properties regardless of property tier.
- Champion a hospitality-first culture, fostering "Hall of Fame Host" experiences that set Kasa apart in the industry through the prodigious application of Kasa's core values.
- Conduct formal property audits and quality inspections, including cleanliness, maintenance, safety, and brand standards, with clear follow-through on corrective actions.
- Ensure seamless execution of guest services, maintenance, and property operations, leveraging both onsite teams and centralized support functions.
- Act as the primary problem-solver for operational challenges, ensuring teams have the right tools, training, and processes to operate efficiently and effectively.
- Develop and coach property leaders and frontline teams on hospitality fundamentals, including guest engagement, anticipation of needs, and personalized service delivery.
- Ensure readiness and execution for peak demand periods, including high-occupancy days, property events, and seasonality.
Financial & Property Performance
- Own and manage the P&Ls for all properties in your area, ensuring high-revenue, low-cost operations that maximize profitability.
- Partner with Revenue Management to execute pricing strategies, channel distribution planning, and leasing activation to drive sustained revenue growth.
- Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities without compromising guest experience or operational excellence.
- Ensure property-level financial goals align with regional revenue and expense targets, proactively analyzing trends and making adjustments as needed.
Team Development & Leadership
- Recruit, train, and develop high-performing onsite teams, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Provide hands-on coaching and mentorship, empowering managers and frontline employees to excel in their roles.
- Partner with the People team to ensure strategic staffing, high retention, and a strong pipeline of talent for future leadership roles.
- Foster a performance-driven culture, ensuring teams understand their impact on financial performance, guest experience, and operational goals.
Stakeholder & Partner Management
- Serve as the primary liaison between Kasa and property owners, ensuring transparency and alignment on financial results and operational performance.
- Collaborate with the Regional Director and POD leadership team, advocating for the operational needs and financial objectives of your portfolio.
- Work closely with Revenue Management, Finance, Guest Experience, and Sales & Leasing, ensuring alignment between revenue strategies, operational execution, and guest satisfaction.
- Regularly report on performance metrics, providing forward-focused insights and recommendations to drive continuous improvement.
Required Attributes
- Experienced Operations Leader: 7+ years of progressively senior leadership in hotel operations, multi-unit operations, or multi-site service industries, with proven P&L ownership and experience leading teams across multiple locations. Proficiency with property management systems and other core hospitality software. Bachelor's degree in hotel management, business, or a related field preferred.
- Owner Mindset: Take full ownership of area performance, ensuring financial, operational, and guest experience priorities are consistently met. Maintain a hands-on approach to execution, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term business goals.
- Financial Acumen: Strong ability to analyze P&L reports, control costs, and drive revenue performance across a multi-property portfolio. Execute financial strategies that maximize profitability and operational efficiency while ensuring service quality.
- Revenue and Yield Management: Fluent in RevPAR/TRevPAR, ADR, STR penetration indices, and occupancy optimization; able to work with revenue management teams and systems.
- Change Advocate & Problem Solver: Works cross-functionally with onsite teams and key stakeholders to identify challenges, implement practical solutions, and ensure sustained operational success. Quickly adjusts to evolving business needs while maintaining stability and service continuity.
- Hospitality-Driven Leader: Champions a hospitality-first mindset, ensuring onsite teams consistently deliver seamless, high-quality guest experiences. Sets clear expectations, inspects what they expect, and reinforces brand standards at every guest touchpoint.
- Operational Executor: Proven ability to execute and enforce operational playbooks, ensuring consistent property performance, compliance with brand standards, and accountability for execution.
- Strategic Implementer: Translates high-level strategies into actionable, property-specific initiatives, ensuring that operational and financial performance continuously improve.
- Prolific Communicator: Effectively engages with property teams, owners, and regional leaders, ensuring alignment on business priorities, performance expectations, and strategic goals.
- Talent Builder: Builds and develops engaged, high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and continuous growth.
- Change Agent: Thrives in an evolving environment, embracing change, innovation, and operational efficiency to drive sustained performance. Leads teams through transition.
Plus if...
- Hotel management experience, such as Director of Rooms (full service hotels) or Assistant GM (select service hotels), is preferred.
- Experience overseeing multiple markets.
- Genuine interest in hospitality and the ability to tell the story to owners and ownership groups.
Curious about the Kasa experience? Save 15% when you book on kasa.com
Benefits
- Remote Work: With flexibility as a core value, and over three-quarters of the team working remotely, Kasa employees can work from anywhere, including our Kasa's across the country!
- Kasa Travel Credit: We love to travel! Kasa employees get an allowance of free stays with us in any of our locations, plus a discount on any night for friends and family.
- The Pay: The starting base pay range for this role is between $100,000 and $120,000 annually and is set based on multiple considerations, including business needs, market demands, talent availability, experience, and unique skills and attributes. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified. This role may also be eligible for equity, bonus, perks, benefits, and Kasa Travel Credits.
- Generous Stock Option Plan: At Kasa, our compensation philosophy is to offer a total compensation package that over-indexes on equity to encourage our team to think like owners (by being owners) and benefit from the value growth that our collective hard work creates.
- Flexible PTO: Full-time exempt Kasa employees are encouraged to take time off as they need and see fit, ensuring that it's not disruptive to their work.
- 401(k) Plan: As you invest in yourself and your future, Kasa invests in you too.
- Health Coverage: We've invested in comprehensive health insurance options to help when you need it most.
- Other Perks: Qualifying full-time roles are eligible for a wi-fi stipend, cell-phone reimbursement, home office stipend, and more!
Kasa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Kasa is an E-Verify participant. We will verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States by matching information employees provide on the Form I-9 against records available to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You may find more information here and here.
Kasa does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or People & Talent team.
A Note on Recruiting & Job Scams
The Kasa Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs kasa.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money or technology to work for our company. If you believe you are a scam victim, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly. US-based applicants may refer to this article from consumer.ftc.gov for more details.
About Kasa
Kasa is the leading tech-enabled hotel and apartment hotel brand and manager. We partner with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties to deliver stylish, professionally managed accommodations to business and leisure travelers alike. We took the best that hotels and short-term rentals had to offer and created a new class of hospitality that is well-priced, reliable, and offers a large selection of great locations.
Unlike traditional hotel operators, we prioritize automation, AI-driven pricing, and data-driven decision-making to optimize revenue and improve guest experiences. Behind the scenes, we build technology that combines with our innovative operations to grow a globally scalable offering that delivers high-quality stays to guests. Our guests enjoy seamless check-ins, caring service, and attractive amenities — and if anything comes up, our on-site and remote guest experience team is available throughout their stay, ensuring our hospitality is rarely seen but always felt.
The Role
Required to live in a market with at least one assigned Kasa property located in it.
As an Area General Manager (AGM) at Kasa, you will be fully responsible for the financial and operational performance of a defined geographic area, overseeing a set of properties across hotel and multi-family products. This role demands a hands-on leader with strong operational expertise, direct P&L accountability, and the ability to balance diverse partner relationships and guest experience expectations.
The AGM role is highly execution-focused, requiring deep engagement with onsite teams and property operations to ensure seamless service, operational efficiency, and financial success. You will spend approximately 95% of your time in-market (with most of in-market time spent onsite at Kasa properties) coaching teams, inspecting execution, and upholding a high bar for guest experience and operational standards. This will require regional travel, including air travel, to effectively manage properties across multiple locations.
At Kasa, hospitality is at the core of everything we do, and as an AGM, you will be a direct leader of multiple property-level teams, setting expectations, inspecting what you expect, and ensuring every guest interaction meets Kasa's high service and hospitality standards. In addition to onsite leadership, you will play a critical role in financial oversight, ensuring your properties align with revenue optimization strategies, cost control initiatives, and leasing activation plans.
Under the direction of your direct supervisor, you will work cross-functionally with Revenue Management, Finance, Marketing, People, and Guest Experience, ensuring that operational decisions align with financial objectives and broader business strategies. Additionally, you will serve as the primary liaison between Kasa and property partners, communicating performance insights and forward-looking strategies to optimize asset value.
This role requires a balance of operational execution and strategic planning, both executed with hospitality as a guiding throughline, ensuring that your properties operate efficiently, your teams perform at a high level, and your financial targets are met.
How This Role Aligns with the Regional POD
The Regional Director leads the POD and sets the strategic vision and priorities, while AGMs and other GM-level team members are responsible for executing financial and operational strategies at the property level.
- AGMs have direct P&L accountability, ensuring that revenue management strategies and cost controls directly impact their P&Ls.
- AGMs are hands-on leaders in the field, spending most of their time onsite, directly coaching teams and overseeing property operations.
- AGMs influence POD resource allocation, advocating for the needs of their properties while ensuring alignment with regional leadership, revenue, and financial strategies.
- AGMs work closely with centralized teams (Revenue Management, Finance, and Guest Experience) to optimize portfolio performance and guest experience.
While the Regional Director oversees regional performance, AGMs must fully own their operational and financial outcomes, proactively identifying challenges and implementing solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Execution & Hospitality Leadership
- Own the end-to-end guest and employee journeys, not just their experiences, ensuring that every need is met at every touchpoint and that effort is minimized for both groups.
- Directly lead and manage onsite teams, ensuring they are highly engaged, well-trained, and delivering exceptional hospitality experiences.
- Set clear expectations and inspect what you expect, conducting regular site visits to assess operational execution, service quality, and team performance.
- Hold teams accountable for meeting Kasa's brand standards, ensuring that every guest interaction, whether in-person or through centralized support, is seamless and exceeds expectations; ensuring consistency across all properties regardless of property tier.
- Champion a hospitality-first culture, fostering "Hall of Fame Host" experiences that set Kasa apart in the industry through the prodigious application of Kasa's core values.
- Conduct formal property audits and quality inspections, including cleanliness, maintenance, safety, and brand standards, with clear follow-through on corrective actions.
- Ensure seamless execution of guest services, maintenance, and property operations, leveraging both onsite teams and centralized support functions.
- Act as the primary problem-solver for operational challenges, ensuring teams have the right tools, training, and processes to operate efficiently and effectively.
- Develop and coach property leaders and frontline teams on hospitality fundamentals, including guest engagement, anticipation of needs, and personalized service delivery.
- Ensure readiness and execution for peak demand periods, including high-occupancy days, property events, and seasonality.
Financial & Property Performance
- Own and manage the P&Ls for all properties in your area, ensuring high-revenue, low-cost operations that maximize profitability.
- Partner with Revenue Management to execute pricing strategies, channel distribution planning, and leasing activation to drive sustained revenue growth.
- Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities without compromising guest experience or operational excellence.
- Ensure property-level financial goals align with regional revenue and expense targets, proactively analyzing trends and making adjustments as needed.
Team Development & Leadership
- Recruit, train, and develop high-performing onsite teams, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Provide hands-on coaching and mentorship, empowering managers and frontline employees to excel in their roles.
- Partner with the People team to ensure strategic staffing, high retention, and a strong pipeline of talent for future leadership roles.
- Foster a performance-driven culture, ensuring teams understand their impact on financial performance, guest experience, and operational goals.
Stakeholder & Partner Management
- Serve as the primary liaison between Kasa and property owners, ensuring transparency and alignment on financial results and operational performance.
- Collaborate with the Regional Director and POD leadership team, advocating for the operational needs and financial objectives of your portfolio.
- Work closely with Revenue Management, Finance, Guest Experience, and Sales & Leasing, ensuring alignment between revenue strategies, operational execution, and guest satisfaction.
- Regularly report on performance metrics, providing forward-focused insights and recommendations to drive continuous improvement.
Required Attributes
- Experienced Operations Leader: 7+ years of progressively senior leadership in hotel operations, multi-unit operations, or multi-site service industries, with proven P&L ownership and experience leading teams across multiple locations. Proficiency with property management systems and other core hospitality software. Bachelor's degree in hotel management, business, or a related field preferred.
- Owner Mindset: Take full ownership of area performance, ensuring financial, operational, and guest experience priorities are consistently met. Maintain a hands-on approach to execution, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term business goals.
- Financial Acumen: Strong ability to analyze P&L reports, control costs, and drive revenue performance across a multi-property portfolio. Execute financial strategies that maximize profitability and operational efficiency while ensuring service quality.
- Revenue and Yield Management: Fluent in RevPAR/TRevPAR, ADR, STR penetration indices, and occupancy optimization; able to work with revenue management teams and systems.
- Change Advocate & Problem Solver: Works cross-functionally with onsite teams and key stakeholders to identify challenges, implement practical solutions, and ensure sustained operational success. Quickly adjusts to evolving business needs while maintaining stability and service continuity.
- Hospitality-Driven Leader: Champions a hospitality-first mindset, ensuring onsite teams consistently deliver seamless, high-quality guest experiences. Sets clear expectations, inspects what they expect, and reinforces brand standards at every guest touchpoint.
- Operational Executor: Proven ability to execute and enforce operational playbooks, ensuring consistent property performance, compliance with brand standards, and accountability for execution.
- Strategic Implementer: Translates high-level strategies into actionable, property-specific initiatives, ensuring that operational and financial performance continuously improve.
- Prolific Communicator: Effectively engages with property teams, owners, and regional leaders, ensuring alignment on business priorities, performance expectations, and strategic goals.
- Talent Builder: Builds and develops engaged, high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and continuous growth.
- Change Agent: Thrives in an evolving environment, embracing change, innovation, and operational efficiency to drive sustained performance. Leads teams through transition.
Plus if...
- Hotel management experience, such as Director of Rooms (full service hotels) or Assistant GM (select service hotels), is preferred.
- Experience overseeing multiple markets.
- Genuine interest in hospitality and the ability to tell the story to owners and ownership groups.
Curious about the Kasa experience? Save 15% when you book on kasa.com
Benefits
- Remote Work: With flexibility as a core value, and over three-quarters of the team working remotely, Kasa employees can work from anywhere, including our Kasa's across the country!
- Kasa Travel Credit: We love to travel! Kasa employees get an allowance of free stays with us in any of our locations, plus a discount on any night for friends and family.
- The Pay: The starting base pay range for this role is between $100,000 and $120,000 annually and is set based on multiple considerations, including business needs, market demands, talent availability, experience, and unique skills and attributes. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified. This role may also be eligible for equity, bonus, perks, benefits, and Kasa Travel Credits.
- Generous Stock Option Plan: At Kasa, our compensation philosophy is to offer a total compensation package that over-indexes on equity to encourage our team to think like owners (by being owners) and benefit from the value growth that our collective hard work creates.
- Flexible PTO: Full-time exempt Kasa employees are encouraged to take time off as they need and see fit, ensuring that it's not disruptive to their work.
- 401(k) Plan: As you invest in yourself and your future, Kasa invests in you too.
- Health Coverage: We've invested in comprehensive health insurance options to help when you need it most.
- Other Perks: Qualifying full-time roles are eligible for a wi-fi stipend, cell-phone reimbursement, home office stipend, and more!
Kasa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Kasa is an E-Verify participant. We will verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States by matching information employees provide on the Form I-9 against records available to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You may find more information here and here.
Kasa does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or People & Talent team.
A Note on Recruiting & Job Scams
The Kasa Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs kasa.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money or technology to work for our company. If you believe you are a scam victim, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly. US-based applicants may refer to this article from consumer.ftc.gov for more details.
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Where Tennessee roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Area Manager Job Market in Tennessee
A snapshot from current Tennessee openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Chemicals & Materials
- Energy
- Manufacturing
What Tennessee Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in area manager jobs across Tennessee.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, or a related field
- Three or more years of multi-unit or multi-site management experience in a related industry
- Demonstrated ability to lead hourly and salaried teams across multiple Tennessee locations
- Proficiency with retail or operations management software, scheduling tools, and reporting systems
- Valid driver's license and willingness to travel regularly across an assigned Tennessee territory
- Experience meeting P&L targets, controlling shrink, and managing labor budgets at the district level
Area Manager Jobs in Tennessee: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a area manager in Tennessee?
Most area managers in Tennessee move into the role after several years managing a single store, site, or department and demonstrating consistent operational and people-management results. Tennessee does not require a state-issued license specific to area management in most industries. Employers typically look for a bachelor's degree in business or a related field alongside hands-on supervisory experience. In regulated industries like food service, familiarity with Tennessee Department of Health compliance standards strengthens a candidacy considerably.
Which companies hire area managers in Tennessee?
Employers hiring area managers in Tennessee right now include Amazon, MAPCO, and Walmart, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Tennessee's concentration of national retail headquarters, major logistics hubs, and large franchise operations means area manager openings appear steadily throughout the year rather than only during peak hiring seasons.
Which Tennessee cities have the most area manager jobs?
Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville are the Tennessee cities with the most area manager openings, driven by Nashville's rapid commercial and retail growth, Memphis's role as one of the country's largest logistics and distribution centers, and Chattanooga's expanding manufacturing and regional retail base, all of which generate consistent multi-site management demand.
Are there remote area manager jobs in Tennessee?
Yes, but they're rare. Area management is fundamentally a field-based role that requires regular presence across multiple locations, so fully remote positions are uncommon. About 27% of area manager openings tied to Tennessee are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those tend to be in account management or business development variants of the title rather than traditional operations oversight roles.
How can I get hired as a area manager in Tennessee with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a strong performance record as a store manager or department lead with a Tennessee employer that promotes from within, such as a Dollar General, Pilot Flying J, or a large grocery or quick-service franchise group operating in the state. Building toward area management means taking on interim district coverage, opening new locations, or leading loss-prevention and training initiatives that give you cross-site visibility. A degree in business or operations and internal promotion into a district coordinator or field support role are the credentials that open the door most consistently in Tennessee.
Where can I find and apply to area manager jobs in Tennessee?
You can find and apply to area manager jobs in Tennessee on Migrate Mate, which lists current Tennessee openings updated in real time. Search the listings to find roles that match your industry background and territory preference, then apply directly to the ones that fit your experience.
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