Chief of Staff - Stride (Manchester)

Package circa £75,000 + equity. Manchester (Hybrid, 2-3 days in office) | Reporting directly to the CEO.

Ready to build the operating system for a company on a mission to fix how humans age? Stride is a preventative health membership that is rewriting the rules on longevity - and we're hiring a Chief of Staff to sit at the centre of it, turning the CEO's intent into action across a business that is moving fast on every front at once.

This isn't a support role. It's a seat at the table with real scope, real decisions, and nothing off-limits.

The CEO Andrew Steele is a former British Olympic sprinter who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the 4x400-meter relay. Previous ventures include co-founding DNAfit, acquired by Prenetics, and serving as Chief Product Officer at Prenetics, which he took through a Nasdaq listing.

This is a leader who knows exactly what "well-run and fast-growing" looks like, and needs a right hand who can match that pace.

Stride translates 500+ biomarkers into a real plan - food, training, supplements, what to watch - delivered alongside a coach, dietitian or physiologist. No other player in the category pairs this depth of testing with this level of practitioner-led, ongoing guidance at this price point.

Stride is well-funded (£xm Series A in 2026) and building on every front simultaneously: product, growth, operations, and a live US launch. That's exactly the kind of pace where things get dropped if nobody's watching the joins - which is precisely the gap this role exists to close.

• Internal and offsite leadership meetings, offsites and planning cycles - agendas, pre-reads, decisions, and making sure the follow-through actually happens
• Take ambiguous, half-formed direction from the CEO and turn it into clear ownership, timelines and next steps
• Closing the loop when things go quiet
• Parachute across the business - operations, launch planning, hiring, or the project nobody naturally owns
• Get the CEO board-ready and investor-ready, with the right briefing and numbers to hand
• Build the lightweight trackers and rituals that keep a growing team coordinated - without adding bureaucracy for its own sake

How Success Is Measured:

• Decisions get made, actioned and closed out, not re-litigated three weeks later
• Leadership time protected and well spent - decisions, not discussion
• Visible improvement in how the team plans, tracks and delivers while minimising bureaucracy

Why this is different:

• Real scope from day one
• A role for someone who wants to build a career at the centre of a growing company, not pass through it
• Comfortable using AI tools day-to-day to move exceptionally fast
• Nothing is too senior to get involved in, and nothing is beneath the role either

Sound like you? You’ve been a chief of staff, run a founder's office, or similar, where you have built the structure, not inherited it. Trusted in ambiguity, turning a thought into action. Bonus points if you've supported a fundraise, board process or new market launch, or have a background in consumer health, wellness or DTC subscription.

A People team built for ambitious businesses. The old model for People & Talent doesn't work for today's businesses. We've built a better one. Traditionally, early-stage Founders had two options: handle People & Talent themselves, losing precious time they should be spending on product or go-to-market, or hire a generalist, expected to cover everything from culture to recruitment to performance. We offer a more impactful alternative: A fully flexible, fractional People & Talent team with specialist skillsets and hands-on delivery, ready to start driving impact for your business in weeks, not months.