Overview
Director, Strategy Jobs in United States at League One Volleyball (LOVB)
Title: Director, Strategy
Company: League One Volleyball (LOVB)
Location: United States
About LOVB (League One Volleyball)
League One Volleyball (LOVB) is reimagining women's sports. Launched in 2019, our company is a mission-led sports performance, training and media enterprise that will change the game of volleyball in the USA and empower new generations of female athletes.
It is a groundbreaking time for volleyball in the US with our historic triple Olympic Gold medals in Women's Indoor, Beach and Sitting Volleyball. Volleyball is already the #1 most played girls' youth sport. There are 38M current and former players today. Of major sports, it's the only one that is women-first (~90% of players are female). But the volleyball market has been almost entirely missed by traditional sports investors, brands, and media.
LOVB is capturing this opportunity by creating a strong club business, and from that built-in audience and fandom, is creating the best Pro League in the world and a digital ecosystem that will connect all aspects of LOVB. This community-up approach will drive participation and fandom, while enabling greater empowerment for girls and young women living this amazing sport. In this role, you will join a mission-driven, roll-up-your-sleeves team of innovators and builders who have come together to change the paradigm of professional volleyball and women’s sports.
Director, Strategy
League One Volleyball (LOVB)
Reports to: Chief of Staff and Strategy
Department: Central Support 302: Strategy
Location: Hybrid / National Travel as Needed
Role Summary
The Strategy Director is a senior strategic leader responsible for helping shape enterprise priorities, supporting executive decision-making, and driving high-impact cross-functional initiatives across League One Volleyball (LOVB).
Serving as a trusted advisor to leaders, the Strategy Director partners closely with executives and key stakeholders to frame strategic questions, evaluate opportunities, align stakeholders, and drive organizational clarity. This role combines sophisticated strategic thinking with a willingness to engage directly in analysis, problem solving, and execution when required.
The Strategy Director must be equally comfortable operating at the executive level and diving deeply into analytical details. Success requires the ability to synthesize complex information, build coalitions across diverse stakeholder groups, influence decision-making, and communicate nuanced strategic insights clearly and persuasively.
The ideal candidate brings the strategic leadership capabilities of a top-tier consulting manager while maintaining a hands-on approach that enables them to contribute across the full spectrum of strategic work. Also critical will be the adaptability, ownership mentality, and execution orientation required in a fast-growing organization.
Performance in this role will be measured not only by strategic and financial outcomes, but by the quality of leadership, collaboration, execution discipline, and adherence to LOVB’s values.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Enterprise Strategy & Business Partnerships
- Partner with leaders to identify, evaluate, and prioritize strategic opportunities and challenges.
- Help shape long-term strategic priorities and enterprise value creation initiatives.
- Support executive decision-making through structured analysis, strategic framing, and thoughtful recommendations.
- Surface key risks, trade-offs, interdependencies, and implications across business functions.
- Facilitate alignment around major strategic decisions and organizational priorities.
- Serve as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership..
Strategic Leadership Partnerships
- Lead large, cross-functional strategic initiatives from concept through implementation.
- Structure complex and ambiguous business problems into actionable workstreams.
- Oversee development of business cases, growth strategies, operating models, and transformation initiatives.
- Drive strategic planning efforts and major organizational reviews.
- Ensure strategic initiatives maintain momentum, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness and decision-making quality.
Stakeholder Alignment & Coalition Building
- Build strong relationships across business leadership, functional leaders, and key stakeholders.
- Facilitate productive discussions among stakeholders with differing perspectives and priorities.
- Drive consensus around strategic recommendations and execution plans.
- Help leaders articulate and communicate strategic priorities across their organizations.
- Strengthen alignment across teams operating in a highly matrixed environment.
Strategic Analysis & Insight Development
- Oversee and contribute directly to strategic analyses when required.
- Review and challenge analytical work to ensure rigor, accuracy, and relevance.
- Guide development of market assessments, financial analyses, competitive evaluations, and business cases.
- Translate complex data and analyses into actionable executive insights.
- Ensure recommendations are grounded in both analytical rigor and practical business realities.
Executive Communication & Leadership Reporting
- Develop and deliver executive-level presentations, memos, and strategic recommendations.
- Communicate complex findings in a concise, compelling, and actionable manner.
- Present insights and recommendations to leadership teams and other senior stakeholders.
- Support preparation for Board, executive, and strategic planning discussions as appropriate.
- Help establish consistent strategic frameworks, tools, and communication approaches across the organization.
Required Skills And Abilities
- Exceptional strategic thinking and structured problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong leadership presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Outstanding verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information into clear executive insights.
- Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities.
- Ability to move fluidly between executive-level strategy discussions and detailed analytical work.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management and coalition-building skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in evolving environments.
- High degree of ownership, judgment, discretion, and professionalism.
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to challenge constructively and build trust.
Education And Experience
- MBA from a leading business school strongly preferred.
- 7–10 years of professional experience.
- Experience at a top-tier management consulting firm strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading teams, major workstreams, or strategic initiatives.
- Significant experience presenting to and influencing senior executives.
- Experience driving organizational alignment across multiple functions and stakeholders.
- Experience in sports, media, consumer brands, entertainment, technology, or high-growth organizations is a plus.
- Experience supporting executive leadership teams and enterprise-level strategic initiatives preferred.
Values & Leadership Alignment (Required)
- Deep alignment with LOVB’s mission to elevate volleyball and advance women and girls through sport.
- Demonstrated commitment to building inclusive, high-performing cultures.
- Clear belief that how results are achieved matters as much as what results are delivered.
- Track record of leading with integrity, accountability, and transparency.
- Ability to model LOVB’s leadership behaviors in moments of ambiguity, pressure, and growth.
- More on www.lovb.com
