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.
League One Volleyball (LOVB)
Reports to: Chief of Staff & Strategy with deliverables to LOVB Foundation Board of Directors
Direct Reports: Potential LOVB Foundation Staff
Location: Preferred locations include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City, though we are open to candidates based in any other LOVB Pro market, including Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Austin, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Omaha, and Madison. This role may require occasional travel based on business needs.
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The Director, Corporate and Social Responsibility leads LOVB’s enterprise impact agenda, defining where LOVB can make a distinctive difference and building the funding, partnerships, programs, and measurement required to deliver it.
The role has a dual mandate: approximately 50% leading the LOVB Foundation under the governance of its Board of Directors, and approximately 50% leading LOVB’s broader enterprise impact agenda in partnership with the Chief of Staff & Strategy and Senior Leadership Team.
Across both, the Director mobilizes LOVB’s connected ecosystem — Youth, Pro League, athletes, teams, partners, employees, and communities — to expand access and opportunity and create better life outcomes through volleyball.
Success will be measured by the reach and quality of programs, resources secured, evidence of impact, and engagement across the LOVB ecosystem.
The Director will be a highly accountable, low-ego leader who models LOVB’s Operating Principles and combines ambition for impact with the discipline to deliver it.
LOVB Leadership Team Operating Principles
LOVB is trying to build something wildly audacious and deeply necessary: a community built through volleyball that helps people, teams, and the sport itself grow stronger over time.
As leaders, we are stewards of something larger than ourselves. We are responsible for building an organization, a community, and a culture that combines ambition, humanity, trust, accountability, adaptability, and long-term stewardship.
Call the ball. We will communicate clearly, directly, and early — especially when conversations are difficult or stakes are high. We will address issues directly with the people involved rather than talking around them, avoiding tension, or allowing unresolved disagreement to linger.
We practice community. We will intentionally build belonging, trust, accountability, and connection through shared experiences, repeated practices, strong leadership, and organizational clarity. We will create environments where people feel challenged, supported, connected, and accountable to something larger than themselves.
Truth and trust can coexist. We will engage in honest debate, challenge ideas openly, and prioritize what is best for LOVB over ego, politics, or positioning. We will stay connected through disagreement and use trust to strengthen our ability to pursue truth together.
In-system and out-of-system. We will build strong systems, clear operating rhythms, and repeatable execution while adapting quickly as circumstances change. We will continue moving,learning, and adjusting even when plans break down or certainty is unavailable.
Better the ball. We will improve the conditions for the people and teams around us through strong handoffs, shared ownership, and reducing unnecessary friction. …
Better the ball (continued). We will create clarity, momentum, responsiveness, and support for the next person and the next play.
Play to win, not just avoid errors. We will pursue ambitious goals, take thoughtful risks, and accept that meaningful progress requires learning through setbacks and misses. We will resist incrementalism, fear-driven conservatism, and optimizing only for predictability.
Athletes first. We will place athletes — youth and pro — and their safety, wellbeing, and long-term thriving at the center of our decisions. We will prioritize long-term athlete development, respect, and stewardship over short-term convenience or pressure.
We are stewards of the sport. We will honor, strengthen, and advance the sport of volleyball for future generations. We will make decisions with the long-term health of the sport, the athletes, and the broader volleyball community in mind.
Great coaches change people. We will lead the way great coaches coach: by challenging people, believing in people, and helping them grow into fuller versions of themselves. We will create ambitious shared work and strong community that help people discover strengths and capacities they did not yet know they had.
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League One Volleyball is a professional women's volleyball league.