Onsite Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO): CONFIDENTIAL SEARCH FOR CLIENT
Industry: Sports & Entertainment
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The organization is a diversified sports and entertainment holding company and this role will sit in Denver, Colorado. The organization oversees a broad portfolio of professional sports franchises, entertainment venues, media properties, and live-event operations. Its businesses span professional and international sports, stadium and venue management, broadcast and digital media, themed entertainment, and related consumer-facing enterprises.
POSITION SUMMARY
The CHRO serves as a senior executive leader responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing the organization’s comprehensive people strategy. This role partners closely with the Chief Executive Officer, The Chief Operations Officer, and executive leadership team to advance organizational culture, talent strategy, workforce performance, and operational resilience. The CHRO operates in a fast-paced, public-facing, and highly regulated environment and plays a critical role in aligning human capital initiatives with business objectives, brand values, and the overall fan and employee experience.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The CHRO acts as a trusted advisor to the executive leadership team on organizational strategy, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and culture. This position designs and leads an enterprise-wide human capital strategy that supports business goals, brand alignment, and a high-performance workforce across corporate, operational, and event-based teams. The role oversees all aspects of talent acquisition, retention, leadership development, and succession planning to ensure organizational continuity and growth.
In addition, the CHRO leads labor relations and workforce negotiations, including collective bargaining agreements and dispute resolution efforts, as applicable. The position ensures full compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, league requirements, and industry regulations, while proactively managing employment-related risk. Oversight of compensation, benefits, and incentive programs—including executive compensation and performance-based pay structures—is a core responsibility of this role.
The CHRO champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives that reflect the organization’s values, workforce, and fan base. This leader guides organizational change initiatives related to expansion, mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and seasonal workforce fluctuations. The role also oversees HR technology and analytics to support data-driven decision-making and executive reporting, and represents the organization externally with leagues, partners, sponsors, and community stakeholders on people-related matters.