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Founded in 2010, Volo is the largest and fastestgrowing player in the social sports industry. We create yearround opportunities for adults 21+ to participate in a variety of sports, fitness, tournaments and social activities through league play. With over 450,000 users across the U.S. in 8 major cities, Volos industryleading digital platform offers an expanding array of nonsports social activities to enable adults to connect with peers through play.

Compensation: $100,000 $120,000

Job Description

The Managing Director is responsible for the sales and operations within the market, including promotions and management of all leagues, activities, and events, in addition to regular managing and mentoring of their team.

City Performance & Sales

• The Managing Director is accountable for city performance related to both adult and youth programming goals
• City strategic planning
• HQ provides structure and best practices; the Managing Director uses city knowledge to maximize product quality, revenue, and margins
• Manage city budget, revenue, league plans & cash flow
• Create & execute city growth strategy for both youth and adult programs
• Manage promotion and recruitment of new and past customers
• Create monthly, quarterly, and yearly budget reviews and forecasts based on city revenue
• Manage budget and ensure profit margins are being held
• Ensure corporate sales & sports growth expectations are being met

Office Management

• Fulltime team recruitment, selection, hiring & training
• Build team office culture
• Ensure proper rollout of new company processes
• Office team evaluation & discipline
• Staff vacation management
• Confidential management of staff compensation
• Internal office & team communication including both kids & adult staff
• Manage, mentor, train and coach team including status updates, budgets, goal setting and customer service response practices
• Help identify and recruit fulltime and parttime staff in the local market
• Create and manage the sports revenue plan
• Work with HR to ensure a pipeline for incoming interns and appropriate goals and projects are assigned

Uphold Volo Quality Standards

• Stickler for branding, operational structure & integrating kids programming
• Assist in marketwide event planning, sponsorship activation and media relations as needed
• Collect program metrics and analysis throughout the season and develop tools for evaluation for youth and adult programs
• Escalation point for customer service issues
• Anticipate and provide proactive solutions to prevent customer service problems from arising in the future

Marketing

• Oversee marketing budget
• Manage and execute all marketing partnerships and sponsorship activations
• Work with marketing team to create a marketing plan, themes and initiatives

Public & Private Relationship Management

• Grow market by identifying new opportunities and relationships
• Develop relationships with current and future league venues
• Track the needs of each site including improvements
• Obtain permits for current and new locations
• Facilitate partnerships with community organizations, neighborhoods and potential funders
• Establish and maintain relationships with facilities, bars, sponsors and other vendors update and record all facility and bar partner contact information
• Seek out and manage new business opportunities through development projects, bar, local sponsor, & local government relationships
• This role will require periodic work out at our leagues, in the evenings and on weekends.

Qualifications

MUST-HAVES

• 812 years experience, ideally in a sport or event management and/or business development capacity
• Experience managing a team
• Can marshal resources effectively and comfortably navigate a fastpaced, everchanging environment with minimal supervision
• Detailoriented project manager experience managing multiple projects across functional areas and wearing many hats
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Dynamic personality interested in working in, and contributing to, a fun and active office environment

WOW US WITH

• Experience managing a budget
• Experience growing a team
• Entrepreneurial experience
• MBA

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Additional Information

Volo is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, genderidentity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or company policy. We strive to create a healthy and safe workplace and we prohibit harassment of any kind.

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