Chief of Staff - Tampa, Florida

The Chief of Staff is a strategic extension of the CEO, increasing the effectiveness of the CEO, the Executive Leadership Team and the broader enterprise. The role translates ambition into coordinated action by improving decision quality, focusing leadership attention, strengthening enterprise operating rhythms and accelerating a focused set of high-value, cross-functional strategic priorities. It combines strategic thought partnership with disciplined execution, moving among executive-level preparation, enterprise strategy, ELT effectiveness, organisational alignment and the detailed work required to drive results and unlock organisational potential.

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CEO on strategic, organisational and operating matters, establishing a clear framework for the CEO's highest-value priorities and commitments, and bring clarity to complex questions by testing assumptions, integrating diverse inputs
• Evaluating alternatives and converting detailed analyses into clear recommendations while anticipating opportunities, execution risks, stakeholder concerns and organisational issues.
• Prepare the CEO for critical decisions, ELT sessions, Board discussions, business reviews, leadership forums and selected external engagements
• And partner with the CEO's Executive Assistant to align the CEO's time with stated priorities while preserving the EA's ownership of calendar execution and logistics.
• Translate CEO direction into explicit outcomes, owners, decision rights, next steps and follow-through, exercising judgement on what to resolve independently, coordinate with accountable leaders or escalate to the CEO.
• Lead annual and multi-year strategic and resource planning, including clarifying strategic choices, scenario analysis and integrated enterprise perspectives, and lead strategic and business review processes to ensure the executive team is prepared
• Aligned and cascading strategy into operations and results.
• Translate strategy into a focused, managed portfolio of initiatives with clear KPIs, sponsors, owners, project plans, resources and governance, and lead select high-priority, time-bound initiatives spanning functions, regions or businesses.
• Lead and/or partner on analyses of strategic opportunities, new ventures and business transformation, identifying and escalating execution risks and resource constraints early.
• Design and continuously improve the executive team's operating cadence across leadership meetings, business reviews, strategic planning offsites and other key milestones, build leadership agendas focused on consequential decisions, strategic choices and performance improvement
• And improve decision quality through effective executive preparation and timely, action-oriented follow-up.
• Identify and address barriers to effective collaboration across the executive team and business, encouraging productive debate, constructive challenge and collective accountability, and partner with the CEO and CPO on executive offsites, leadership effectiveness, succession
• Talent and organisational-health priorities.
• Partner with leaders and teams across the business to communicate and cascade enterprise strategy and CEO priorities, partner with Communications and People teams on CEO communications and organisational engagement, ensure alignment between strategy, priorities, actions and communications
• Create practical feedback loops so the CEO and executive team receive timely, reliable feedback from regions, functions and frontline teams, and detect and escalate points of confusion, conflicting messages, change fatigue or execution risks early.
• Lead a focused set of high-priority assignments or projects where potential impact is significant and existing ownership is unclear or temporarily insufficient, including new strategic priorities, new venture development, business transformation or strategic partnerships
• Build relevant facts and insights, define the question, convene cross-functional capabilities, recommend a path, establish ownership and transition enduring work to appropriate teams.
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive and respectful team environment by demonstrating professionalism, accountability and collaboration
• Embrace IRONMAN's BE ICONIC mindset with an athlete-first perspective, take ownership of work, show pride in delivering exceptional experiences, communicate openly and constructively, demonstrate adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset, and act as a culture carrier onsite and offsite.

• Approximately 8+ years of progressive experience or an equivalent pattern of achievement, including meaningful exposure to enterprise-level decisions and working with senior executives.
• Demonstrated success converting strategy into measurable results in a global, highly distributed and matrixed organisation.
• Experience in relevant domains such as corporate strategy, general management, business operations, enterprise transformation or business development.
• Experience in consumer and growth businesses across industries such as entertainment, sports, technology, media, multi-unit retail, or travel and hospitality.
• Strong analytical skills with commercial and financial acumen.
• Demonstrated success influencing people across functions and cultures without relying on authority.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working across cultures, time zones and in settings with meaningful international travel.
• Experience using AI and emerging technologies to improve decision-making and productivity.
• Exceptional judgement and discretion with the ability to handle confidential matters with integrity.
• Low ego and high emotional intelligence with a collaborative, service-oriented approach to supporting the CEO and the executive team.
• Composure, resilience and strong adaptability in fast-moving, high-pressure situations.

• Preference for working at CEO or Board level.

• Tampa, Florida or Boulder, Colorado office preferred; open to remote for the right candidate.

Its purpose is to inspire people to unlock their greatest potential through sport, and through its BE ICONIC vision it aims to build the most loved brands, produce the world's most inspiring events and foster deeply engaged communities that change lives.