How to hire a team manager

How to hire a team manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step team manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a team manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new team manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the team manager you need to hire. Certain team manager roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

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   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

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   A team manager's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, team managers from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   This list shows salaries for various types of team managers.

   Type of Team Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Team Manager		$21-73
   Customer Service/Operations Manager	A customer service/operations manager is primarily in charge of spearheading and overseeing the efforts of a customer service team, ensuring efficiency and client satisfaction. Their responsibilities include setting goals and objectives, establishing guidelines and schedules, managing the employees, creating new programs for customers, and developing strategies to optimize customer service operations... Show more	$23-47
   Customer Experience Manager	A customer experience manager (CEM) links the gap between the brand they work for and the customer. It is their job to ensure that customer experience is engaging, efficient, and effective... Show more	$19-65

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Patients
   • Taking Care
   • Project Management
   • Performance Management
   • Leadership
   • Direct Reports
   • HR
   • Customer Satisfaction
   • Continuous Improvement
   • Corrective Action
   • Professional Development
   • PowerPoint
   • Payroll
   • Performance Reviews

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   Responsibilities:

   • Build and manage narcotics trafficking/use database in Unix base setting.
   • Facilitate appropriate usage and allocation of skil visits via authorization process for manage care insure patients.
   • Manage and coordinate care of medical and psychiatric patients with accountability for cost effective quality outcome.
   • Lead project team supporting Massachusetts payroll tax initiative, ensuring statutory information are captured and report.
   • Manage contact center performance to avoid financial penalty, efficiently driving client desire productivity results, meeting KPIs.
   • Manage an embed Facebook executive protection team that provide security and logistical support for a corporate executive and his family.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your team manager job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A team manager salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, team managers' average salary in arkansas is 62% less than in alaska.
   • Seniority. Entry-level team managers earn 71% less than senior-level team managers.
   • Certifications. A team manager with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a team manager's salary.

   Average team manager salary

   $82,017yearly

   $39.43 hourly rate

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   Entry-level team manager salary

   $44,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 5, 2025

   Average team manager salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	New York	$127,345	$61
   2	District of Columbia	$119,836	$58
   3	New Jersey	$118,781	$57
   4	California	$115,545	$56
   5	Massachusetts	$109,385	$53
   6	Washington	$104,956	$50
   7	Pennsylvania	$104,181	$50
   8	Virginia	$99,711	$48
   9	Delaware	$95,904	$46
   10	Nevada	$91,583	$44
   11	Connecticut	$90,549	$44
   12	Texas	$87,880	$42
   13	Michigan	$87,649	$42
   14	Oregon	$87,252	$42
   15	North Carolina	$85,118	$41
   16	Illinois	$84,475	$41
   17	Arizona	$79,851	$38
   18	Georgia	$76,029	$37
   19	New Mexico	$74,755	$36
   20	Florida	$70,510	$34

   Average team manager salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Meta	$160,626	$77.22	35
   2	Google	$152,023	$73.09	28
   3	Apple	$148,342	$71.32	10
   4	California Resources	$142,385	$68.45
   5	Squarespace	$139,324	$66.98	1
   6	Atlassian	$138,670	$66.67
   7	Zywave	$136,743	$65.74
   8	Microsoft	$136,493	$65.62	13
   9	KLA	$135,664	$65.22	2
   10	Sanofi US	$131,563	$63.25	2
   11	First Republic Bank	$130,641	$62.81
   12	Dignity Health	$129,480	$62.25	7
   13	VMware	$128,975	$62.01
   14	Varian Medical Systems	$124,965	$60.08
   15	Faraday Technology	$124,600	$59.90
   16	HireVue	$122,422	$58.86
   17	J.P. Morgan	$122,394	$58.84
   18	NFP Ventures	$122,097	$58.70	1
   19	NuVasive	$121,185	$58.26
   20	HSBC Bank	$121,156	$58.25	3

4. Writing a team manager job description

   A job description for a team manager role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a team manager job description:

   Team manager job description example

   The Customer Experience Portfolio is exclusively focused on delivering value to customers and creating the digital products that uplift the technology leadership with our customers and industry. The team is dynamic, exciting and fun with high expectations to deliver best in class results with the timeliness to capture eager markets. We're breaking ground on so many possibilities - applying new technologies to solve complex problems, taking innovative approaches to software development like Design Thinking - it's impossible to list them all here. Come join an amazing team!
   
   As part of the Customer Experience Portfolio, the Strategic Investments Team is responsible for developing and maintaining a broad portfolio of customer-facing business applications that support logistics and risk management. These systems help customers:
   
   The Strategic Investments Team Manager leads and manages an agile team of 15+ people. The team is responsible for delivering and maintaining the infrastructure that supports Expeditors' business excellence. The Team Manager is responsible for coaching and mentoring their team members, ensuring that they have the training and tools to do their jobs, and supporting their growth so that they and their teams are performing well. The Team Manager is responsible for ensuring that their teams understand expectations and how their work is tied to the company performance. The Team Manager will manage enterprise risk, provider relationships, and/or assets as required. Team Managers need to optimize their teams to achieve the desired outcomes and be biased towards execution. The Team Manager understands logistics in eneral, how to foster DevSecOps, how the Technology & Process Architectures work to enable success, and is able to lead teams to deploy and release software and infrastructure on time and on budget in an agile environment.
   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
   
   Maintain extensive parts catalogs
   
   Compare between sourcing scenarios including landed cost
   
   Manage vendor and customer data, including denied party status
   
   Manage insurance and claims processes.
   
   Manage and track vendor exceptions
   
   Support their people's development and career growth
   
   Develops strategic partnership with respective business stakeholders
   
   Understand, support, and communicate the company and IS department vision and strategy
   
   Embrace the Process Architecture which includes but is not limited to Lean, Agile, and Scaled Agile Framework principles and practices
   
   Ensure the availability, security, and performance of systems
   
   Deliver tangible business value through execution of initiatives, programs, and projects
   
   Deliver continuous improvement across operational responsibilities with measurable outcomes
   
   Ensure their people understand how their work is tied to outcomes
   
   Overseeing enterprise risk management, provider relationships, and/or asset management as required
   
   This position will sit in greater Seattle, WA. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

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5. Post your job

   There are various strategies that you can use to find the right team manager for your business:

   • Consider promoting from within or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to find candidates who meet your education requirements.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your team manager job on Zippia to find and recruit team manager candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   To successfully recruit team managers, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new team manager

   Once you've found the team manager candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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