Las Vegas CEO

Chief Executive Officer, MCP Las Vegas

Mountain Capital Partners | Give People the Freedom to Ski

Mountain Capital Partners is one of the largest ski resort companies in the United States by resort count. We did not get here by accident. We got here because we find great mountains, put the right leaders in place, and give people the freedom to ski.

Now we are looking for the right CEO to lead our Las Vegas-area platform.

This is not a traditional ski resort General Manager role. Lee Canyon already has an operations-focused General Manager in place, and that is by design. We need a CEO who can lead above the day-to-day, build the business, strengthen profitability, elevate hospitality, and help shape the next chapter of growth in Southern Nevada.

We give people the freedom to ski. That is our purpose. It is our North Star. And we need a leader in Nevada who is anchored to that truth while also bringing the judgment, discipline, and ambition to grow a more complex, multi-asset business.

The Opportunity

Lee Canyon is a unique resort business: a ski area just outside Las Vegas with a meaningful runway for operational improvement, guest experience enhancement, and long-term growth. The resort already has a leader in place who knows how to run the mountain and deliver a solid ski product. What we need now is a leader to help take MCP’s Las Vegas operations to the next level.

This CEO will oversee Lee Canyon through its General Manager while helping Mountain Capital Partners build and lead a broader Las Vegas-area hospitality platform. That includes supporting the integration and growth of additional hospitality assets as MCP expands in the market.

This role is designed to keep you focused on what matters most:

• strategy
• financial performance
• organizational design
• stakeholder relationships
• hospitality leadership
• and long-term value creation

For the right leader, this role can grow. MCP is an expanding company, and leaders who create results here earn larger opportunities. We believe in building from within.

What You’ll Do

Lead the Strategy

• Live and lead MCP’s mission, vision, and culture: Giving People the Freedom to Ski
• Partner with MCP leadership to build and execute a multi-year strategic plan for the Las Vegas-area platform
• Translate vision into annual priorities, measurable KPIs, and a culture of accountability
• Identify opportunities to strengthen Lee Canyon as a durable, year-round mountain business and to grow adjacent hospitality operations over time

Lead Through Operators

• Oversee the Lee Canyon General Manager, who will continue to handle day-to-day mountain leadership
• Create a clear leadership rhythm with honest feedback, real accountability, and strong execution standards
• Help ensure the resort has the right organizational structure, decision rights, and leadership bench to perform at a higher level
• Build a model where the business does not depend on the CEO for every decision, but does depend on the CEO for clarity, alignment, and standards

Drive Business Performance

• Own the broad business results for the Las Vegas-area platform: revenue, cost discipline, labor efficiency, capital planning, and profitability
• Improve margin performance at Lee Canyon by bringing stronger financial discipline, organizational clarity, and operating rigor
• Partner with resort leaders to improve food and beverage performance, hospitality standards, and guest-facing execution
• Help build the systems, scorecards, and operating cadence needed to run a stronger business

Lead Hospitality Growth

• Help MCP stand up, integrate, and grow additional hospitality operations in the Las Vegas area
• Bring a hospitality mindset and leadership capability that Lee Canyon does not currently have on the ground
• Assess inherited teams, retain strong talent, and build or upgrade leadership where needed
• Help create a unified vision across mountain and lodging/hospitality operations without forcing the two into the same mold

Support Development, Entitlements, and Capital Projects

• Help lead the planning and execution of important growth and improvement projects across the Las Vegas-area platform
• Work with MCP leadership, consultants, contractors, architects, engineers, and agency partners to help move projects forward
• Support project management tied to resort improvements, hospitality upgrades, development planning, and future expansion opportunities
• Help navigate permitting, entitlement, land-use, and stakeholder processes, particularly where public agencies, environmental considerations, or multi-party coordination are involved
• Ensure projects are prioritized, scoped, sequenced, and executed in a way that supports the broader business strategy

Own the Stakeholder Relationships

• Serve as MCP’s senior representative in the Las Vegas-area market
• Build productive relationships with the Forest Service, local and state officials, community stakeholders, and other key partners tied to Lee Canyon’s long-term future
• Help lead conversations around growth, land use, development potential, and community impact
• Represent MCP as a long-term owner-operator committed to building great businesses, not flipping assets

Build and Steward the Culture

• Champion and embed MCP’s values daily: Family Matters, Lead by Example, Be Curious, Be Restless, Work Hard and Go Ski, and Winning is Fun
• Model a culture of urgency, accountability, humility, and execution
• Balance high standards with strong people judgment
• Lead in a way that earns trust from teams on the mountain, in hospitality, and at the corporate level

Be Curious. Be Restless.

• Help identify future growth and development opportunities in the Las Vegas-area market
• Look beyond what exists today and ask what the business could become in three, five, and ten years
• Bring ideas, not just maintenance

This Role Demands

• An ownership mindset: if it is broken, you fix it; if it is winning, you build on it
• High agency: you do not wait for permission to solve problems
• Strategic clarity paired with operator credibility
• Financial discipline and comfort owning a P&L
• Strong hospitality instincts and the judgment to improve guest-facing businesses
• The ability to lead through others instead of trying to do everything yourself
• Excellent communication and relationship skills
• Comfort with complexity: multiple assets, multiple stakeholders, development opportunities, and no perfect playbook
• Enough project-management discipline to help move capital projects, upgrades, and entitlement-related work forward
• A genuine connection to skiing and mountain recreation
• Openness to technology, systems improvement, and AI-enabled efficiency

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, hospitality, recreation, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Significant senior leadership experience in hospitality, lodging, resorts, recreation, food and beverage, or a business of comparable complexity
• Experience owning broad business results, including strategy, financial performance, talent, and external relationships
• Experience leading through senior operators rather than managing every tactical detail yourself
• Demonstrated success improving margins, strengthening operating discipline, and growing revenue
• Must have a genuine understanding of and passion for skiing, mountain recreation, and the guest experience in a ski-resort environment. 

Preferred

• Master’s degree in business, management, hospitality, or related field
• Experience as a CEO, President, COO, Division Leader, or similarly broad business leader
• Experience in hospitality-heavy markets such as Las Vegas, destination resort communities, gaming-adjacent hospitality, or similar environments
• Experience integrating new business lines, acquisitions, or multi-asset platforms
• Experience improving food and beverage operations and broader guest-experience businesses
• Experience with capital projects, construction oversight, development coordination, permitting, or entitlements
• Experience in ski resort leadership or another seasonally dynamic, guest-facing business
• Comfort using technology, data, and AI tools to improve efficiency and decision-making

Who We Are

MCP is a team of authentic skiers who believe skiing should be accessible, joyful, and worth showing up for every single day. We invest in mountains because we believe in them. We believe in long-term ownership, strong local leadership, and building businesses that can stand on their own.

We are not buying businesses to dress them up and sell them. We are building for the long term. That means we need leaders who think like owners, lead like builders, and care deeply about the guest, the team, and the future of the mountain.

Our culture is unmistakable: we fail fast and fail forward, we show up for our teams, we celebrate wins loudly, and we put our skis on when the moment calls for it.

If that sounds like your kind of company, keep reading. Then apply.