JOB POSTING
Lead Massage Therapist
Novi, Michigan
FULL_TIME | USD 100000.00 YEAR
Pay & Earnings Potential – Earn Like a Leader & Protect Your Body:
- Earnings Potential: $100,000+ Total Target Compensation (Base Rates + Hourly Premiums + Tips + Performance Bonuses + Uncapped Profit Sharing)
- Therapy Hours: $32 / hour + Tips (With automatic rate increases every 500 therapy hours)
- Personal Rebook Premium: +$2 or $3 / hour (Evaluated quarterly at 70% & 80% thresholds)
- Service Enhancements: Commission ~20% of revenue
- Non-Therapy Leadership Hours: $1,200 / month (For training, quality control, and admin duties)
- Retreat Rebook Target Bonus: Up to $1,000 / month
- Annual Profit Sharing: 1% of store profit
Job Type: Full-time
Location: 26058 Ingersol Dr, Novi, MI 48375
Schedule: Full-time (Minimum 24 hands-on therapy hours & 12+ leadership hours weekly - includes evenings, weekends and holidays)
Benefits & Practitioner Perks
- Comprehensive Earning Structure: High base hourly rates, service tips, personal rebook premiums, monthly performance bonuses, and annual profit sharing.
- Company-Paid Therapist Liability Insurance: Coverage through ABMP.
- Unlimited Recovery Technology Access: Free personal access to advanced modalities to support your own body mechanics and physical longevity - including Halo Therapy, Cryotherapy, Infrared Sauna, Red Light, Ballancer Pro Lymphatic Massage, and Vibroacoustic Meditation.
- Paid Time Off (PTO): Earn 4 hours monthly upon hire (Scales to 6 @ 3 years; 8 @ 5 years).
- Retirement Plan
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Professional Development & Reinvestments (After 1 Year):
- Free CE Offerings & $100 Annual CE Reimbursement
- State License Renewal Reimbursement
- Generous Employee & Affiliate Partner Discounts
Welcome to Your Next Chapter of Purpose
At Heights Wellness Retreat, we believe every person has the potential to be an Unstoppable force in their own life - and expert therapeutic touch is at the heart of the transformation. We are opening Michigan’s flagship location in Novi, bringing an elevated affordable-luxury sanctuary featuring hydraulic, vibroacoustic tables and state-of-the-art recovery technologies.
Our signature Cloud 9 Experience delivers a bespoke, white-glove level of personalized care. We are seeking a master bodyworker and clinical mentor to serve as our Lead Massage Therapist. In this hybrid leadership role, you will deliver exceptional hands-on care while mentoring our practitioner team, maintaining clinical quality control, and upholding an elevated standard of therapeutic care.
Why You’ll Love Leading Our Therapist Team
- Protect Your Body: Work on industry-leading heated, hydraulic, and vibroacoustic massage tables designed to eliminate physical strain and extend career longevity.
- Unlimited Personal Recovery: Maintain your own strength and career longevity with free personal access to advanced hands-free recovery technologies.
- White-Glove Clinical Setting: Practice in a serene, private sanctuary where members value long-term therapeutic care over quick transactional appointments.
- Clear Earning & Career Trajectory: Transparent hourly wage increases tied directly to hands-on milestones, alongside store-wide profit sharing and monthly bonuses.
What You Will Do (Clinical Leadership & Hands-On Care)
- Hands-On Excellence: Deliver 24+ hours of custom therapeutic massage per week, exemplifying top-tier client care, assessment, and rebooking.
- Team Mentorship & Quality Control: Spend 12+ hours weekly onboarding, training, and auditing therapist protocols, technical skill sets, and client interactions.
- Rebook & Retention Coaching: Guide therapists on client retention, home-care recommendations, and service enhancements to help the retreat achieve performance targets.
- Sanctuary & Safety Standards: Ensure strict adherence to sanitary, ethical, state regulatory, and body mechanic standards across all treatment suites.
- Department Integration: Collaborate closely with the Retreat Director, Estheticians, and Wellness Consultants to ensure seamless, personalized client journeys.
- Holistic Wellness Pathing: Look beyond hands-on care to educate and cross-recommend high-tech recovery modalities to complement your client's therapeutic goals.
Qualifications & Clinical Profile
- Licensure: Active Michigan Massage Therapy License in good standing.
- Experience: 3+ years of professional hands-on massage therapy experience in a high-end spa, clinical, boutique resort, or private wellness environment.
- Leadership Capabilities: Demonstrated experience or strong aptitude for training, peer coaching, technique evaluation, and constructive feedback.
- Physical Demands: Ability to consistently perform 24+ hands-on therapy hours per week using proper body mechanics.
- Scientific Curiosity: Strong desire and conceptual capacity to understand the science behind recovery technologies and mentor therapists on explaining these benefits to clients.
- Background Checks: Ability to pass reoccurring background checks.
Heights Wellness Retreat Novi is independently owned and operated by Ever and True Inc., a franchisee of Elevated Brands Franchising.