Chief of Staff

About Dance Yourself Fit

Dance Yourself Fit is one of the fastest-growing dance fitness brands in Europe. We run paid, joyful, life-changing dance classes across 130+ venues and we're scaling fast.

This is the CEO's strategic right hand, and the person responsible for rebuilding how the business runs on AI. The Chief of Staff operates at the intersection of business priorities and day-to-day execution, translating vision into action, managing cross-functional dependencies, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks at the leadership level.

Just as importantly, this person is coming in to build AI systems from the ground up: setting up agents, automating workflows, and designing new operational structures that let the business run leaner and faster. This is not "use AI tools when convenient." This is building the operating layer of the company around AI, then running the business through it.

This is not a task-doer role. This is the person who thinks three steps ahead, manages up and down, and ensures the whole machine, increasingly an AI-augmented one, is pointed in the right direction.

• Serve as CEO's primary operational partner, own his priorities, follow through on commitments, and keep him informed without noise
• Design and deploy AI agents and automated workflows across the business, from scratch, replacing manual processes with systems that run themselves
• Lead strategic projects end-to-end: from scoping to delivery to review
• Own the business's operational health: software stack (HubSpot, ClickUp, ClickFunnels, n8n), vendor relationships, cost audits, and escalations, working alongside the team lead migrating automations from Zapier to n8n
• Build and enforce reporting standards across the team: progressive updates, scorecard metrics, weekly summaries
• Represent CEO's voice in cross-functional decisions when he is unavailable
• Manage the Operations Manager and coordinate with all team leads
• Own training delivery and SOP migration across the team, using AI tools to accelerate documentation and rollout
• Enforce new operational standards, hold team members accountable to defined ways of working
• Own team growth: quarterly performance reviews against role standards, individual development plans, performance calls when someone is not levelling up

• 5+ years in a Chief of Staff, Head of Operations, or senior business management role (startup or founder-led business experience strongly preferred)
• Hands-on AI builder, not just a user: comfortable setting up AI agents, building custom skills and projects, and wiring automation between tools rather than waiting for someone else to build it
• Strategic thinker who can also roll up their sleeves when needed
• Exceptional communicator, written and verbal; can influence without authority
• Deeply comfortable with ambiguity and rapid context switching
• Strong track record of building systems that outlast their creator
• Not easily destabilised, holds the line calmly under pressure

• At least one AI agent or automated workflow designed and deployed end-to-end, replacing a previously manual process
• CEO is no longer in the operations loop by default, only by choice
• At least one major cross-functional project delivered end-to-end
• Full visibility into software costs, with a savings or consolidation recommendation made
• Training program delivered to every team member against their role standard, using AI-assisted documentation
• Quarterly review cadence established with documented development plans per person
• At least one performance call made or escalated where someone is not meeting role standard

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