Hestia is hiring House Managers to join our launch team in Oakville. We're looking for the rare professionals who already do this work — formally or informally — and deserve a platform that treats it like the career it is.
A House Manager is the operational center of a busy family's home. You don't just execute tasks. You own domains. You notice what needs to happen before the family does. You build systems. You manage vendors, coordinate logistics, anticipate seasonal needs, and run the day-to-day operations of a household at a level of detail that lets the family stop holding it themselves.
This isn't a gig role. It's a profession. We're building the platform that names it as one.
Who we're looking for:
The strongest applicants typically come from:
Career household professionals
- Long-term nannies whose charges have aged into school and who already manage household logistics informally
- Experienced housekeepers and family assistants ready to step up into management-level work
- Professional household managers from previous private placements
Adjacent professional backgrounds
- Senior executive assistants ready to leave corporate environments for autonomy and human-scale work
- Hospitality professionals (hotel managers, event coordinators, catering managers) whose service standards translate directly to running a private home
- Operations and project management professionals seeking flexibility and meaningful work
The common thread: you're someone who already does this work brilliantly, often informally. You're proactive, organized, and trusted. You've held responsibility for complex environments and made them run smoothly.
What the work looks like:
Household operations
- Vendor management — finding, scheduling, and supervising cleaners, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, and other service providers
- Maintenance tracking — anticipating seasonal needs (HVAC service, gutter cleaning, smoke detector batteries) before the family has to think about them
- Inventory and restocking — par levels for household essentials, preferred brands, what runs out and when
Family coordination
- School administration — calendars, permission slips, parent-teacher conferences, picture days, spirit days
- Extracurricular logistics — registrations, schedules, equipment, carpool coordination
- Medical and appointment scheduling
- Birthday gifts, holiday prep, family travel logistics
Household administration
- Bill tracking, subscriptions, insurance renewals, warranty management
- Maintaining the household manual — preferred vendors, account numbers, emergency contacts, how things actually work in this specific home
- Budget management for household spending where applicable
Daily and weekly operations
- Daily reset — kitchen, common spaces, laundry rhythms
- Light meal prep and grocery management
- Coordinating with cleaners, contractors, and other household staff
What House Managers do not do:
- Deep cleaning (you manage the cleaning service, not the scrubbing)
- Primary childcare (you coordinate logistics, not active supervision)
- Anything outside the written scope agreement without renegotiation
What we look for:
- Anticipatory intelligence — you see what needs doing before being told
- Project management skills applied at the scale of a household
- Vendor and contractor management experience
- The capacity to own domains, not just execute task lists
- Discretion and professionalism around the family's private life
- Strong communication — with families, with vendors, with the Hestia team
- Comfort with the tech that runs modern households — shared calendars, family apps, smart-home devices, the Hestia platform
What makes Hestia different — for you:
We vet families before we match them with you. Every Hestia family completes a thorough intake process before placement. We don't accept families who treat household work as "the help." Family fit goes both ways.
Every placement includes a structured household manual. Built collaboratively with the family, the manual documents preferences, vendors, routines, and standards. You walk into a placement knowing how the household runs, instead of guessing for the first three months.
Written scope agreements protect what you've agreed to do. And what you haven't. Scope creep has a process — additional work means a tier upgrade, not an unspoken expansion.
We never charge you to access work. No subscriptions, no pay-to-play. Hestia keeps a small percentage of the membership fee. Families pay through the platform.
Your rate is set before you meet your first family. No bidding, no negotiating, no marketplace race to the bottom.
Compensation:
Hourly rate: $30-45+/hour. House Managers typically start at $30-38. Senior placements with multiple-property or executive-level coordination earn $40-45+. Specialists (multilingual households, neurodivergent-experienced, premium families with travel coordination) command the upper range.
Hours and structure:
Most House Managers build a portfolio of Oakville families over time. Hours per family typically range from 10-25 per week, with House Managers working 20-40 total hours across their portfolio. You set your availability. We match accordingly.
This is built for consistent, ongoing relationships — not one-off gigs.
Required:
All Hestia House Managers complete a background check, reference check, in-person interview, and skills assessment before placement. Hestia covers vetting costs.
A note on what we're building:
True household management has historically been a role available only to ultra-wealthy families, while everyone else has been told to settle for cleaners, nannies, or task-rabbit-style services that don't actually solve the problem. Hestia is building the platform that brings real household management to dual-income professional families — and treats the people doing the work as the professionals they are.
We're launching in Oakville first, with the rest of the GTA to follow. We're looking for the founding team of House Managers who will help us build what this category can become in Canada.
If you've been doing this work for years and never had the platform you deserved, this is it.
Pay: $30.00-$45.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Flexible schedule
Work Location: In person
