With 36 years of NFL experience, Stephen Jones has established himself as one of the most successful and versatile executives in professional sports, as Co-Owner and the franchise's Chief Operating Officer. Jones also serves as the Cowboys' Executive Vice President of Player Personnel and President of AT&T Stadium.

With 36 years of NFL experience, Stephen Jones has established himself as one of the most successful and versatile executives in professional sports, as Co-Owner and the franchise's Chief Operating Officer. Jones also serves as the Cowboys' Executive Vice President of Player Personnel and President of AT&T Stadium.

Jones oversees the management and business operations for all aspects of the Dallas Cowboys and AT&T Stadium, while also overseeing the team's scouting and player personnel department. His work involves managing the organization's several hundred staff members, while also handling all of the club's salary cap and major player contract concerns. He is active in the recruitment and management of all major events that come to AT&T Stadium and The Star in Frisco. Jones' experience as a major college football player, and his years as one of the NFL's top executives, were instrumental in his appointment to the NFL's prestigious Competition Committee, which he currently serves as Co-Chairman of. His active involvement in stadium management, design and development has also landed him a spot on the NFL's New Stadium Committee.

Following the Cowboys 12-4 regular season finish and 2014 NFC Eastern Division title, Stephen and Jerry Jones were named the co-recipients of the NFL Executive of the Year Award as presented by Sports Illustrated's Monday Morning Quarterback.

Beginning in 1989, Jones has played an integral role in the team's dramatic rise from a 1-15 record to being the NFL's "Team of the Decade" with three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s. As he enters his 37th NFL season, Jones was a core architect of the Cowboys teams that compiled three consecutive 12-win regular seasons from 2021-23 - the first such streak since the 1992-95 squads. His recent work has seen the club restock its roster with some of the game's top talent, and the recent results have produced winning records in 12 of the last 20 seasons and division titles in 2007, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023. During his tenure with the team, Dallas has established the club record for regular season wins (13) in 1992 and equaled that mark with 13 victories in 2007 and 2016.

Over the last decade-plus, Jones has crafted one of the most impressive drafting records in the NFL. Dallas has selected 15 players who have become Pro Bowlers since 2014: Zack Martin and DeMarcus Lawrence (2014), Byron Jones (2015), Ezekiel Elliott, Jaylon Smith and Dak Prescott (2016), Leighton Vander Esch (2018), Tony Pollard (2019), Tyler Biadasz, Trevon Diggs and CeeDee Lamb (2020), Micah Parsons (2021) and DaRon Bland, Jake Ferguson and Tyler Smith (2022). The 15 Pro Bowl draft picks are the most by any team over that span, and that group has gone on to earn a combined total of 38 Pro Bowl selections. Since 2010, Dallas has drafted 11 players who have also been named to at least one All-Pro team since their selection - most in the NFL. The Cowboys have also mined talent in creative ways outside of the Draft, signing or trading for four players in recent years who have been Pro Bowl selections, starting with the trade for Amari Cooper midway through the 2018 season and culminating with a trio of specialists in punter Bryan Anger, kicker Brandon Aubrey and return man KaVontae Turpin - the latter two signing after successful stints in the USFL.

The foundation for the future success of the team has been secured through savvy draft maneuvers and key free agent acquisitions, starting up front on the offensive line. In the spring of 2025, Martin retired after an illustrious 11-year career that included nine Pro Bowls and seven first-team All-Pro honors, passing the torch to the young and ascending Tyler Smith. Smith has continued the tradition of excellence up front with two Pro Bowl selections in his first three seasons and leads a re-loaded group up front with first round draft picks Tyler Guyton (2024) and Tyler Booker (2025). Prescott opened his career by becoming the first rookie quarterback in Cowboys history to be named to the Pro Bowl and the first to win AP Offensive Rookie of the Year and became the Cowboys single-season touchdown leader with 37 touchdown passes in 2023, a season in which he finished second in the NFL MVP voting. Prescott was also named the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year for 2022, becoming the fourth Cowboy to earn that special recognition (Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, Jason Witten). Lamb is another in the line of great Cowboys receivers to don the famed number 88 jersey, establishing a team rookie record with 74 catches in his first season, then surpassing the 1,000-yard mark in his second year before becoming the only Cowboys receiver with multiple 100-catch campaigns, eventually establishing a franchise record with 135 catches and 1,749 receiving yards in 2023.

Defensively, Diggs, Parsons and Bland anchor an ascending young group of players. Diggs tied the club record with 11 interceptions in 2021, while Parsons earned AP Defensive Rookie of the Year honors by establishing a Cowboys rookie record with 13.0 sacks and followed that up with 13.5 sacks in 2022 and a second straight AP first-team All-Pro selection – the first Cowboys defender to earn first-team All-Pro honors in each of his first two seasons and only the second NFL defender since the 1970 Merger, joining Lawrence Taylor in 1981-82. Parsons eclipsed 12.0 sacks in both 2023 and 2024, becoming the second NFL player since 1982 with at least 12.0 sacks in each of his first four seasons, joining Hall of Famer Reggie White. Bland set an NFL-record with five pick-sixes in his second pro season and led all defenders with nine interceptions in 2023, providing another ball-hawking, first-team All-Pro defender.

In an effort to improve the roster heading into the 2025 season, Dallas set a new bar by signing 10 outside free agents, the most in a single offseason since free agency began in 1994, and traded for four additional players, including the electric and uber-talented wide receiver George Pickens to give Prescott a dynamic receiving duo to throw to moving forward.

In the ever-evolving strategy that dictates a team's competitiveness in the current collective bargaining agreement, Jones' performance in managing the Cowboys salary cap, and the club's activity in free agency, has played a prominent role in the team's ability to compete at the NFL's highest level. Jones' involvement in shaping the Dallas roster under the salary cap was critical in allowing the Cowboys to maintain one of the NFL's most talented core group of players throughout the decade of the 1990s. His creativity and caretaking of the Cowboys cap played a key role in the team's 13 division titles, four conference championship game appearances and three world titles since 1989.

During a historic two-year period, Jones was involved in signing five Cowboys stars who were considered the best players in the game at their respective positions. Between September of 1993 and September of 1995, Jones helped orchestrate contract agreements with running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman, fullback Daryl Johnston, wide receiver Michael Irvin and cornerback Deion Sanders.

Shortly after the turn of the century, Jones began spearheading the club's new stadium efforts, overseeing every element of the development and construction of the venue while also working closely with local government, community and business leaders. He was directly responsible for the club's successful referendum campaign in the fall of 2004 that saw the City of Arlington agree to join forces with the Cowboys in building a new state-of-the-art stadium later to be named AT&T Stadium.

Opened to the public in May of 2009, the stadium's dramatic first season of operation resulted in the venue being named the Sports Facility of the Year by the Sports Business Journal in May of 2010.

The 100,000-plus seat stadium established the attendance record for an NFL regular season game as 105,121 witnessed the September 20, 2009 home opener, while the 108,713 who attended the NBA All-Star Game on February 14, 2010 became the largest crowd to witness a game in the history of the sport.

With its architectural versatility and cutting-edge media capabilities, AT&T Stadium has become a visible beacon that has established North Texas as a major focal point on the sports and entertainment canvas of North America and around the world.

The brilliant home of the Cowboys has become a powerful catalyst in attracting a wide range of national and international events that will define the future of the region for generations to come. The stadium has already played host to Super Bowl XLV (February of 2011), the NCAA Final Four in men's basketball (April of 2014), the Big 12 Championship game, the inaugural College Football Playoff Championship Game (January of 2015) and in 2018 became the first NFL stadium to host the NFL Draft. Other top flight sporting events for the future include the annual Cotton Bowl classic, hosting a tournament-high nine matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2030 NCAA Men's Final Four, just to name a few.

In the summer of 2013, Jones was the organization's point person in the negotiations that established the multi-year naming rights agreement for the Cowboys home in Arlington with AT&T.

AT&T Stadium remains the only venue in the world to host an NBA All-Star Game, a Super Bowl, the Men's NCAA Final Four and the College Football Playoff Championship Game.

Shortly after the new name for AT&T Stadium was announced, Jones took on the responsibilities of spearheading a partnership with the City of Frisco (TX) and the Frisco Independent School District to develop a new home for the Cowboys World Headquarters and training facility in Frisco. The Star in Frisco opened its doors for operation in the summer of 2016. Located in a rapidly growing community of more than 200,000 residents, The Star is a partnership with the City of Frisco and Frisco ISD that focuses on inspiring a strong future for high school football, youth sports and the next generation of players and fans by uniquely engaging them at the place where the Dallas Cowboys live, work and practice.

The Star is the only NFL training facility in the U.S. that is shared with a public high school athletic program. All 12 Frisco ISD high schools play home games within Ford Center at The Star, a state-of-the-art, 510,000-square-foot indoor athletic facility. With a capacity of 12,000 seats, Ford Center hosts a variety of events in addition to football games, such as concerts, collegiate basketball, professional boxing, award shows, soccer matches and meetings, to name a few.

The Star includes a 91-acre mixed-use development located on the Dallas Tollway. In addition to the team's headquarters, the project features shopping, dining, nightlife, athletic, fitness, event, hotel and residential options.

Prior to focusing much of his energy on the innovative projects in Arlington and Frisco, Jones' stewardship of historic Texas Stadium in Irving left behind a legacy of facility management that maximized the use and visibility of the venue into a year-round destination for sporting, entertainment, community and corporate events on an unprecedented level.

Jones has enjoyed a lifelong association with the game of football. A four-year letterman as a linebacker and special teams standout at the University of Arkansas, Jones was a starter for the Razorbacks in the Orange Bowl Classic Game that followed the 1986 season. Prior to attending the University of Arkansas, Jones was an all-state quarterback and a three-year starter at Catholic High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In February of 2015, Jones was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, where he joined his father who was a 1999 inductee.

In 2016 Jones was awarded the Junior Achievement Legacy Award which goes to a person whose leadership supports academic excellence in Arkansas. Jones followed that honor up in 2017, being named the 2017 Arkansan of the Year by Easter Seals Arkansas.

He earned his degree in chemical engineering from Arkansas in 1988 and immediately went to work in the oil and gas business for JMC Exploration as an engineer. In 2013 he was inducted as a member of the Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers.

On Feb. 25, 1989, Jerry Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys and installed Stephen into a key front office position as one-of-three vice presidents with the club.

Jones is a past president of the Dallas Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization. He serves on the board of directors for Complexity Gaming as well as the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association. He also serves on the board for the Dallas Citizens Council. He is a former member of the NFL's Business Ventures Committee, and he is also a member of the board of directors for Legends Hospitality - the joint stadium catering venture involving the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees organizations that Jones was instrumental in creating. In the spring of 2015, Jones was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.

Jones was born in Danville, Arkansas and raised in Little Rock. He and his wife, Karen, live in Highland Park, Dallas and have four children and four grandchildren.