Training Director

About the role

Every member at MIRA follows a plan built around their body, their history, and their goals, and delivered by a trainer who coaches with calm and precision. The Training Director owns the standard that makes that sentence true. This is a founding employee role, hired at the same level as the Operations Director. The Operations Director runs the club; you own what happens on the training floor and in every member's program.

Responsibilities

Before opening:

• Take ownership of MIRA's house training philosophy. A working draft exists; you refine it with the founder and make it yours to defend.
• Hire the founding trainer cohort with the founder: strength and conditioning, Pilates, and physiotherapy. You run the technical screening; the founder makes final decisions.
• Design and run trainer onboarding. Technical standards are half of it; the other half is hospitality, because our trainers coach working professionals with courtesy and calm, not bootcamp volume.
• Own the member assessment standard: the intake conversation, movement screening, strength baselines, and the health flags that decide when we say "see a doctor first."
• Define programming standards across the floor, including event preparation for members training toward a marathon or Hyrox.
• Work with MIRA's back-of-house planning system. Software helps draft and track member programs; you own the quality bar it has to meet, and the trainer always remains the member's coach.

After opening:

• Own member results: strength, fitness, and body composition, measured and reviewed on a regular cadence.
• Review and sign off member programs. Nothing reaches a member's plan without meeting the house standard.
• Run weekly trainer education. The team should coach in one language, and get better every month.
• Hold the floor standard: quiet, precise, personal coaching. Correct it when it slips.
• Own training safety: injury escalations, medical-clearance gates, and the judgment calls in between.
• Be present on the floor. This is a coaching leadership role, not an office role.

Requirements

The standard we are hiring for:

• A member's program accounts for their injury history, their sleep, their travel weeks, and the hours they actually have. Not a template.
• A new trainer sounds like MIRA within weeks: same assessment, same programming logic, same courtesy.
• A member training for their first marathon gets a plan that builds them up safely, not one that hands them an injury at kilometre 30.
• Safety gates are never skipped, however confident the member sounds.

Success in the role

• Six months in: the founding trainer cohort is hired, onboarded, and coaching in one house language. The assessment standard is live. The club opened with programs ready for every founding member.
• Twelve months in: member results are measurable and improving, member retention reflects it, and trainers are visibly developing under you.
• Twenty-four months in: the training playbook is documented well enough to open a second city, and your education program largely runs itself.

Qualifications

You Should Have:

• 8 or more years of coaching experience, including time leading, educating, or mentoring other trainers.
• A formal grounding: a sports science or exercise physiology degree, or a rigorous internationally recognised strength and conditioning certification.
• Experience coaching both serious athletes and everyday working professionals. This role is mostly the second group.
• A teacher's temperament. Building other coaches should excite you as much as coaching members.
• Fluent English. Tamil is a real advantage.

You Should Be:

• Evidence-led. You program from principles and data, not fashion.
• Calm and precise on the floor. Our members finish long workdays; they are coached, not shouted at.
• Comfortable with technology as a tool that extends your judgment, never replaces it.
• Excited to write the playbook for a category that doesn't exist in India yet.

Pay

• Fixed salary: ₹13–17 lakh per year, based on experience.
• Performance bonus: Up to ₹2–3 lakh per year, tied to member results and retention.
• PropCo ESOPs: 0.5–1.0% of MIRA's Chennai club entity, vesting over four years with a one-year cliff. At our current post-money seed valuation this is an estimated ₹12–24 lakh; that estimate will change as the company's valuation changes.

Benefits

• Health cover for you and your family.
• Full club membership.