Product Lead

Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies — niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore. Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs.

We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently — accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable. We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about.

Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better. Beacon is backed by a diverse base of investors, with $550M+ raised to date, including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, the family offices of the founders of Stripe, Door Dash, and Ramp, and evergreen funds built for the long game.

You'll join Beacon's Portfolio Product team — a cross-functional group of Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, GTM experts, and Data Scientists working directly with our 40+ portfolio companies and counting (at roughly one new acquisition per week) to drive measurable outcomes through AI and software.

At the core, every PM at Beacon owns product outcomes for 2 to 5 portfolio companies at a time, acting as a hands-on, founding product leader embedded in each business. You'll sit close to the GM, the operators, and the customers, figure out where the leverage is, and ship software directly into the business. The best PMs don't just deliver for the companies they're deployed at — they compress what they learn into reusable playbooks that spread to every other portfolio company in the same vertical.

The ultimate objective is to transform our portfolio companies into unicorns!

For the right candidates, this role grows beyond individual ownership. As your vertical scales, you may build and lead a team of PMs, take on hiring and coaching responsibilities, and become the person who sets product vision and standards across an entire industry segment — partnering directly with GMs, founders & operators, and driving planning across the whole portfolio. How much of that path applies to you depends on your background and trajectory, and we'll shape the role around what you bring.

This is not a consulting role. We ship software, not slides. The deliverable is a running system.

• Own product outcomes for 2 to 5 portfolio companies simultaneously, acting as a fractional/founding product leader embedded in each business
• Lead quarterly and annual planning, helping teams set product visions and translate them into achievable goals
• Build and maintain roadmaps that balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Drive sprint planning and execution, improving team velocity and predictability over time
• Develop prioritization frameworks that help CEOs and operators make better product decisions
• Build customer feedback systems that turn qualitative inputs into actionable roadmap decisions
• Coordinate feature launches across engineering, sales, marketing, and support
• Coach developers, designers, and early PMs to think like product managers
• Distill learnings into cross-portfolio playbooks that scale impact beyond your assigned companies
• Partner with GMs, founders, and operators to set product vision and translate it into executable roadmaps
• Contribute to Beacon's broader AI platform by surfacing patterns and opportunities from your companies

• Build and lead a team of PMs, hiring, onboarding, and developing them as your portfolio scales
• Codify cross-portfolio playbooks that turn individual wins into repeatable systems across an entire vertical
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