Club President

Job Summary

• Lead and direct all Club operations, including revenue, business operations & soccer operations. 


• Develop and implement business plans for sustainable growth.


• Implement, grow, and foster a sales-driven, entrepreneurial, hard-working culture. 


• Develop and lead the execution of external marketing, sponsorship, ticket sales, public relations, and fan engagement plans. Hire a sports-experienced, highly driven management team and other personnel with the vision of building a first-class organization. 


• Oversee and provide strategic direction for day-to-day operations, including monitoring and forecasting revenue and expenses. 


• Direct the implementation of short-term and long-range plans and budgets based on broad corporate goals and growth objectives.


• Ensure sound services and working relationships with important customers and industry leaders, and with outside services as needed in the general operations of the organization. 


• Represent the Club at a multitude of community events as the “face” of the Club. 

• Entrepreneurial, highly driven leader with deep professional sports/soccer sales experience. 


• Experience in a startup soccer club and building out a soccer movement in a community, strong relationship skills a must.


• Experience leading sponsorship and ticket sales/revenue.


• Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders. 


• Strong understanding of professional sports business.


• Ability to work as business needs require, which at times may include long days, evenings, weekends, and occasional holidays. 

• Experienced Executive with 15+ years of professional business development and administration experience. 


• Major League Soccer experience preferred

• Communication: Delivers clear, effective communication and listens to others.


• Conceptual/Systems Thinking: Recognizes patterns, trends, themes, and connections in information to develop innovative ideas and solutions.


• Constructive Engagement: Expresses ideas and disagreements, constructively resolves conflict, and encourages others to do the same.


•  Customer Orientation: Meets the expectations and needs of internal and external customers.


• Decision Making: Makes good decisions in a timely manner.


• Empowerment: Takes initiative and solves problems.


• Talent Development: Maximizes potential and improves overall performance.


• Influence: Proactively builds relationships and influences others.


• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Accurately assesses problems and effectively and efficiently arrives at solutions.


• Strategic Thinking: Understands the current state and is able to visualize the ideal state and how to achieve it.