Chief of Staff - Boulder, Colorado

The Chief of Staff is a strategic extension of the CEO who increases the effectiveness of the CEO, the Executive Leadership Team, and the broader enterprise. The role helps translate 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 fluidly among executive-level preparation, enterprise strategy, ELT effectiveness, organisational alignment, and detailed work required to drive results.

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CEO on strategic, organisational, and operating matters, establishing and maintaining a clear framework for the CEO's highest-value priorities and commitments.
• Bring clarity to complex questions by testing assumptions, integrating diverse inputs, evaluating alternatives, and converting detailed analyses into clear, concise recommendations; anticipate emerging 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
• Partnering 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 judgment on what to resolve independently, coordinate with accountable leaders, or escalate to the CEO.
• Lead the company's annual and multi-year strategic and resource planning, including clarifying strategic choices, scenario analysis, and integrated enterprise perspectives
• 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 and 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 or partner on analyses of strategic opportunities, new ventures, and business transformation, identifying and escalating execution risks and resource constraints early and organising the team to address them.
• Design and continuously improve the executive team's operating cadence across leadership meetings, business reviews, strategic planning offsites, and other key milestones, building leadership agendas that focus collaboration on consequential decisions, strategic choices, and performance improvement.
• Improve decision quality through effective preparation of the executive team and timely, action-oriented follow-up, maintaining a clear record of decisions, commitments, owners, deadlines, and unresolved issues.
• 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, as well as the Communications and People teams, to communicate and cascade enterprise strategy and CEO priorities, ensure alignment between strategy and actions, and create practical feedback loops from regions, functions, and frontline teams.
• Lead focused high-priority assignments or projects where 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 the appropriate team(s).
• 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, ownership of work, and pride in delivering exceptional experiences.
• Communicate openly and constructively with teammates and cross-functional partners, demonstrate adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset, and act as a culture carrier onsite and offsite, recognising that individual behaviours shape the athlete, volunteer, and team experience.

• 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 judgment 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 the CEO or Board level.

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

The IRONMAN Group's purpose is to inspire people to unlock their greatest potential through sport, pushing beyond limits to become the fullest expression of human achievement. As part of the team, employees join a high-performance, caring culture where innovation thrives, communities are uplifted, and every achievement, big or small, is celebrated.