Modern Life
General Manager, Workspace
$250K–$300K
New York, NY (4 days/week in office) · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
About the job
Build and lead Modern Life Workspace, an AI-enabled business serving financial-protection firms, with responsibility for its financial performance, enterprise sales, delivery, and client relationships.
What you'll do
- Own Workspace revenue, pricing, delivery costs, and financial performance; set business focus and positioning.
- Lead enterprise sales and client engagements from discovery and proposals through implementation, adoption, and expansion.
- Partner with product and engineering, establish onboarding and account management, and hire and lead the team as the business grows.
What they ask for
- Experience leading a business, business line, or new commercial initiative as a general manager, founder, or early operator.
- Strong commercial track record, including revenue responsibility and selling to senior enterprise leaders.
- Ability to take engagements from discovery through implementation and adoption and demonstrate value delivered.
- Good judgment about priorities and commitments, and willingness to handle sales, workshops, implementation, and account issues directly while the team is small.
Nice to have
- Product-management or business-operations experience working with product and engineering.
- Former management consulting experience; enterprise software or applied AI go-to-market, founding a business, or insurance and financial-services knowledge are also valued.
Pay
USD 250,000–300,000 (per-year-salary) base salary
AI focus
Bring AI into financial-protection workflows, including case design, underwriting, policy review, and advanced planning; work with product and engineering to develop client-driven capabilities.
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