[Hiring] General Manager, Upcoming Apps Portfolio @Mode Mobile

Role Description

We are seeking a highly entrepreneurial and execution-oriented General Manager, Upcoming Apps Portfolio to own a portfolio of mobile applications acquired through M&A each app is primarily generating $500,000 or less in annual EBITDA. The GM will take newly acquired apps from transition through stabilization, engagement, monetization, and operating efficiency.

• Quickly determine the right path for each app: grow, maintain, reposition, consolidate, or prepare for graduation into Mode’s Emerging Apps Portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio Ownership & M&A Integration:
  • Own the strategy, operating performance, and financial results of the Incubation Apps portfolio, including budgets, forecasts, KPIs, and performance targets.
  • Rapidly assess the product, users, revenue model, technology, costs, team needs, and market opportunity of newly acquired apps.
  • Develop focused post-acquisition operating plans and leverage Mode's technology, distribution, monetization capabilities, shared services, partnerships, and infrastructure to accelerate value creation.
  • Evaluate new apps under consideration and identify the highest-potential opportunities for investment and growth.
• Growth, Product & Monetization:
  • Drive revenue, engagement, retention, and profitability through focused product, growth, and monetization strategies.
  • Establish rapid experimentation and feedback loops; prioritize initiatives based on business impact, speed to learning, and ROI.
  • Serve as the business owner for product direction, using analytics, market insights, competitive intelligence, and user feedback.
  • Identify opportunities across advertising, subscriptions, pricing, partnerships, cross-promotion, user acquisition, and Mode's broader ecosystem.
• Portfolio Optimization & Graduation:
  • Regularly assess each app's strategic and financial potential and determine the appropriate path: Grow, Graduate, Maintain, Reposition, or Consolidate.
  • Allocate resources based on performance and potential while keeping overhead low and eliminating unnecessary complexity and costs.
  • Develop promising apps toward graduation into the Emerging Apps portfolio.
• Leadership & AI-Native Execution:
  • Serve as the clear accountable owner for the portfolio and coordinate priorities across various teams.
  • Communicate performance, risks, opportunities, experiments, and recommendations clearly to executive leadership.
  • Champion an AI-Native operating approach to accelerate analysis, decision-making, experimentation, product development, and execution.
  • Create a culture of accountability, speed, thoughtful experimentation, and measurable results.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of consumer mobile apps and digital business models; experience with monetization, subscriptions, advertising, user acquisition, or consumer growth strongly preferred.
• Experience integrating, operating, or scaling acquired businesses or products is highly desirable.
• Hands-on operator who can move between strategy and execution, manage multiple priorities with limited resources, and work effectively with technical and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI effectively in day-to-day work and identify practical applications across products, workflows, analytics, automation, and business operations.
• Prior GM experience is helpful but not required; strong product, growth, strategy, or operating leadership backgrounds will be considered.

What Success Looks Like

• Successfully transitioned newly acquired apps into Mode with clear operating plans, KPIs, and portfolio priorities.
• Improved revenue, profitability, engagement, or other critical KPIs across priority apps through disciplined experimentation and AI-enabled execution.
• Established clear, data-driven recommendations for where to grow, maintain, reposition, consolidate, or increase investment.
• Built a repeatable, efficient incubation model and prepared qualifying apps for graduation into the Emerging Apps portfolio.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• A builder, operator, and portfolio manager rather than a caretaker.
• Commercially minded, product-oriented, highly analytical, and comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
• Understand that smaller acquired apps require a different operating model than larger businesses.
• AI-Native in how they work: actively using AI to increase leverage and expecting teams to use AI thoughtfully.
• Takes ownership of outcomes and ensures each acquired app has a clear path toward sustainable growth, profitability, and long-term value creation.

We Believe in the Following Workplace Norms

• Allow OKRs to Guide Us
• Assume Positive Intent
• Agree to Disagree & Commit
• Set New Precedents
• Accomplish More with Less
• Hold Yourself & Others to High Standards
• Speak Up
• Be Resourceful
• Follow the 80/20 Rule

Benefits

• 100% remote-first, global company.
• A competitive compensation package.
• Generous perks & benefits to team members.
• Participation in the Company's equity plan (for full-time team members).
• Individual bonuses in accordance with our Company Bonus Program.
• Work with energetic, passionate, and results-driven people.
• Celebrate team members' personal and work milestones.
• Remote social activities, including virtual coffee buddies.
• Bonusly as a way to recognize and reward team members.
• Weekly Wednesday Get Stuff Done Days (No Meetings).
• Open PTO, generous Company Holidays, and Wellness Days (for full-time team members).