Chief of Staff - Stride (Manchester)
Chief of Staff - Stride
Manchester (Hybrid, 2-3 days in office) | Reporting directly to the CEO
Package circa £75 000 + equity.
Free StrideOne membership plus family and friends discount
Ready to build the operating system for a company on a mission to fix how humans age?
Stride is a preventative health membership that's 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's 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 product & the edge
'Normal' health is no longer good enough. Normal is code for tired, stressed, barely functioning and slowly declining, and calling that a life. We think everyone has a right to better than that.
Stride is turning tracking your entire internal biology into a lifestyle, with a next generation preventative health membership, where every member builds a multi-omic health profile covering DNA, microbiome, blood biomarkers, epigenetics and oral health. Over 500 biomarkers, tested at least twice a year, so we can see direction of travel and not just a single point in time. Then we turn it into what to actually do: what to eat, how to train, what to supplement, what to watch, with a coach, dietitian or physiologist alongside you.
Imagine an elite longevity concierge, at an everyday price, with no stuffy clinics to attend. Just informed, practitioner led protocols underpinned by your own biology.
Funding & growth
Stride is well-funded 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.
The Role
What you'll actually own:
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 beurocracy
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.