General Manager

About us:

Venture Lane is a founder-first startup hub in the heart of downtown Boston built for early-stage B2B tech founders who are focused on real progress. We bring together a curated community focused programming and a high-trust ecosystem to help founders move faster across capital customers talent and product. Alongside our workspace community Venture Lane Studio provides a hands-on traction program designed to help high-potential founders accelerate go-to-market execution and scale with proven frameworks and expert support.

We lead with founders and outcomes. We offer memberships exclusively for B2B tech builders anchored in coworking and access to resources that drive acceleration and measurable results. In our space founders can focus on building but the real value comes from the people programming and progress made inside the community.

Your role:

The General Manager is responsible for partnering with the CEO to set strategy and lead execution building to grow Venture Lane as a founder-first startup hub while owning its financial operational and community performance. This role sits at the intersection of founder outcomes revenue growth through product lines and partnerships program management and ecosystem development.

You will operate as both a strategic leader and a hands-on operator leading a lean team to execute go-to-market initiatives for the coworking space and Studio business oversee space operations and continuously improve systems and processes. The goal is to ensure Venture Lane consistently delivers measurable value to founders while operating as a healthy scalable business.

Your responsibilities include:

• Business Strategy & Performance
  • Own Venture Lane’s financial performance including revenue growth occupancy retention and cost management.
  • Partner closely with the CEO on strategy pricing packaging and go-to-market execution.
  • Lead sales pipeline management forecasting and reporting to drive predictable growth.
• Partnerships & Founder Impact
  • Own sponsor and strategic partner acquisition activation and ongoing relationship management
  • Own founder programming strategy and execution ensuring measurable progress across capital customers talent and product.
  • Design and evolve programming for founders at different stages including curated sessions peer groups and office hours.
  • Curate a high-signal community of early-stage B2B tech founders mentors and ecosystem partners.
  • Build trusted relationships with founders and act as a strategic partner in their journey.
• Insights Operations & Team Leadership
  • Produce market insights and analytics across revenue pipeline programming and community engagement to inform decision-making
  • Oversee day-to-day operations and space execution to remove friction and support focused work.
  • Lead a lean team with a hands-on ownership mindset while continuously improving systems and processes as the business scales.
  • Continuously improve systems processes and operating cadence as the business scales

We are looking for:

• 3-5 years of experience in operations community startups business management or related roles
• Meaningful exposure to early-stage startups founders or the Boston startup ecosystem
• Proven ability to own outcomes (not just activities) across programming revenue and operations
• Strong business acumen including hands-on experience with budgeting forecasting and P&L management
• Numbers- and insights-driven with a clear bias toward results and measurable impact
• Strong in sales and negotiations with comfort closing deals and structuring partnerships
• Exceptional relationship-building skills; trusted warm and credible with founders and partners
• Highly organized and systems-oriented comfortable building processes from scratch and improving them over time
• Strategic mindset with the ability to develop new services activities and programming as the platform evolves
• Entrepreneurial self-starter mentality with a bias toward action learning and continuous improvement
• Prior leadership or people-management experience is a plus

Please note that this is a fully in-person role Monday through Friday.

If you don’t meet every requirement exactly we still encourage you to apply. We evaluate candidates holistically and value diverse experiences skill sets and perspectives.

What We Do

Venture Lane is a startup hub built for early-stage B2B tech founders. We combine a curated community high-impact programming and a flexible workspace environment to help companies accelerate across capital customers talent and product. In addition Venture Lane Studio provides a hands-on traction program that supports founders in executing go-to-market strategies validating growth and preparing to scale.

Why Work With Us

We work at the center of Boston’s startup ecosystem alongside high-growth founders. Our team is collaborative outcomes-driven and empowered to own initiatives end to end. We prioritize learning experimentation and real responsibility giving builders the chance to create measurable impact for startups the community and their own growth.

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