Chief of Staff - Remote

At The IRONMAN Group, our purpose is clear: to inspire people to unlock their greatest potential through sport, pushing beyond limits to become the fullest expression of human achievement. Through our BE ICONIC vision, we are building the most loved brands, producing the world’s most inspiring events, and fostering deeply engaged communities that change lives. Each year, we aim to empower over a million athletes to cross a finish line and inspire a billion people through the power of the human spirit.

As part of our team, you’ll join a high-performance, caring culture where innovation thrives, communities are uplifted, and every achievement, big or small, is celebrated. You’ll help shape experiences that fill hearts, consume minds, and enrich souls. This is more than a job. It’s a chance to be part of a global movement, to lead from the front, and to leave a legacy. Together, we create inspiring moments that last a lifetime. The IRONMAN Group is the world's largest operator of participation sports, delivering over 250+ events a year across 55+ countries thanks to a passionate global team. For more information, visit www.ironman.com/about-ironman-group.

Location & Travel: Tampa, Florida or Boulder, Colorado office preferred, however, open to remote for the right candidate.

The Opportunity: 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 individual will help 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.

This role combines strategic thought partnership with disciplined execution. The Chief of Staff will move fluidly among Executive-level preparation, enterprise strategy, ELT effectiveness, organizational alignment and the detailed work required to drive results and unlock our potential as an organization. The role succeeds through judgment, trust, synthesis, facilitation and influence.

Key Responsibilities:

CEO Strategic Partnership and Effectiveness

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CEO on strategic, organizational, and operating matters.
• Establish and maintain a clear framework for the CEO's highest-value priorities and commitments.
• Bring clarity to complex questions, test assumptions, integrate diverse inputs, evaluate alternatives and convert detailed analyses into clear and concise recommendations.
• Anticipate emerging opportunities, execution risks, stakeholder concerns and organizational issues.
• Prepare the CEO for critical decisions, ELT sessions, Board discussions, business reviews, leadership forums and selected external engagements.
• 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.
• Exercise judgment regarding what to resolve independently, coordinate with accountable leaders or escalate to the CEO.

Enterprise Strategy and CEO-Sponsored Initiatives

• 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.
• 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.
• Identify and escalate execution risks and resource constraints early and organize the team to address.
• Lead through influence; functional and regional executives retain ownership of their strategies, teams, budgets, operations and results.

Executive Leadership Team Effectiveness

• 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 to ensure the executive team is focused and collaborating on consequential decisions, strategic choices, and opportunities to improve performance and results.
• Improve decision quality through effective preparation of the executive team and timely and action-oriented follow up across the team and organization.
• Maintain a clear record of decisions, commitments, owners, deadlines and unresolved issues.
• Identify and address barriers to effective collaboration across the executive team and business.
• Encourage productive debate, constructive challenge and collective accountability.
• Partner with the CEO and CPO on executive offsites, leadership effectiveness, succession, talent and organizational-health priorities.

Organizational Alignment and CEO Communications

• Partner with leaders and teams across the business to communicate and cascade enterprise strategy and CEO priorities throughout the organization.
• Partner with the Communications and People teams on CEO communications and organizational engagement and communication initiatives.
• Ensure alignment between the company’s strategy and our priorities, actions, and communications.
• Create practical feedback loops to ensure the CEO and executive team are receiving timely and reliable feedback from the company’s regions, functions and frontline teams.
• Detect and escalate points of confusion, conflicting messages, change fatigue or execution risks early.

Special Situations and Emerging Priorities

• Lead a focused set of high-priority assignments or projects where the potential impact is significant and existing ownership is unclear or temporarily insufficient.
• Potential assignments could include new strategic priorities, new venture development, business transformation, or strategic partnerships that otherwise do not fit into the normal course of business.
• Build the relevant facts and insights, define the question, convene the right cross-functional capabilities, recommend a path, establish ownership and transition enduring work to the appropriate team(s).

• Culture

• Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and respectful team environment by demonstrating professionalism, accountability, and collaboration in all interactions.
• Embrace IRONMAN’s BE ICONIC mindset by bringing an athlete-first perspective, taking ownership of work, and showing pride in delivering exceptional experiences.
• Communicate openly and constructively with teammates and cross-functional partners to support efficient execution and problem solving.
• Demonstrate adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset, learning from each event and contributing ideas to improve processes and experiences.
• Act as a culture carrier onsite and offsite, recognizing that individual behaviors directly shape the athlete, volunteer, and team experience.

Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Attributes

• 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 organization.
• 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; preference for working at the CEO or Board level.
• 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and employment in accordance with applicable law.

The above job description is not intended to be an “all inclusive” list of duties, responsibilities, skill and abilities, required to do the job. Rather, it is intended only to describe the general nature of the job and is a reasonable representation of its activities. Duties and responsibilities may evolve over time.