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 founder & team
The CEO Andrew Steele is a former British Olympic sprinter who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the 4×400-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.
The product & the edge
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.
Funding & growth
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.
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.