General Management Roles — Country Managers, Division Presidents, GMs
More than 2,957 executive roles classified in General Management, with 281 new this week. P&L-owning leaders below the corporate CEO line — division presidents, country managers, business unit GMs, and SVP equivalents.
Tier breakdown
26
Founder411
C-Suite1,401
VP273
Sr Director846
DirectorWhat this category covers
General Management covers the leaders who run a self-contained business inside a larger company: division presidents, country managers, business unit GMs, and similar P&L-owning roles. They sit a step below the corporate CEO but operate as the CEO of their slice.
The category includes COO-equivalent operating roles where a single executive owns the day-to-day of a region or product line — even when the title is "President," "Country Manager," or "Managing Director" rather than "GM."
Across the 2,957 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
What falls outside: corporate-level CEO roles (those land in the CEO & President flagship), and functional VP roles that don't carry P&L.
Sample Jobs (10 of 2,957)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Chief Engineer - AHS Applied Intuition Leadership role in delivering Applied's AHS across strategic site operators, requiring 5+ years in automotive, industrial, or robotics domains. C-Suite | Sunnyvale, CA Onsite |
| Mission Director - Aerial Combat Applied Intuition The Mission Director for Aerial Combat serves as the senior relationship and strategic shaping lead for Applied Intuition’s aerial combat portfolio, focusing on the Drone Stack campaign. VP | Washington, D.C. Onsite |
| Senior Director - Software Engineering GE Healthcare Lead a software engineering team to deliver complex software platforms, implement AI technologies, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Sr Director | Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India Unknown |
| Head of Corporate IT & Security Blank Street Lead the strategy and execution of Corporate IT at Blank Street, focusing on security, MDM, SaaS consolidation, and AI enablement. VP | New York, NY, USA Onsite |
| Interim Director, Public Affairs & Policy ... Hanson Search Senior public affairs leadership in logistics, reporting to the VP Corporate Affairs. Requires strong political judgment, stakeholder network, and experience in logistics or supply chain policy areas. Director | London Unknown |
| Head of Corporate IT & Security Blank Street Lead the strategy and execution of Corporate IT and security at Blank Street, ensuring seamless operations across stores and offices. VP | New York City Onsite |
| Director, Strategic Initiatives & Partner Ecosystem RentSpree Lead partner integrations and strategic initiatives, reporting directly to the CEO. Responsible for launching new partner integrations and driving strategic initiatives from concept to measurable outcomes. Director | Seattle, WA Hybrid |
| Creative Director, AI Photography & Video Canva Lead creative and strategic direction for photography and video, champion AI-first approaches, and partner with engineering and product leadership at Canva. Director | Sydney, Australia Hybrid |
| Senior Lab and Medical Director, Computational Pathology Guardant Health Responsible for clinical leadership in computational pathology, product development, and oversight of laboratory operations. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| GM, Taiwan Flexport The General Manager will build and lead local teams, drive market presence, oversee operations, and cultivate partnerships in Taiwan. The role involves strategy development, team management, and ensuring compliance. VP | Taipei, Taiwan Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
General Management classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for P&L scope, business unit revenue, headcount, and reporting line. A "General Manager" reporting to a CEO with full unit P&L is materially different from a "GM" of a single team — the classifier weighs scope, not the literal title. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: General Management as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on General Management is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select General Management + Healthcare Payers & Providers and you see division presidents and regional GMs at hospital networks and payers — not corporate CEOs and not functional VPs — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix