Group Product Manager (Vertical 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. They are 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, DoorDash, and Ramp, and evergreen funds built for the long game.

About the Role

You'll be joining Beacon's Portfolio Product team as a Group Product Manager, owning product strategy and execution across a defined vertical within our portfolio. You'll start as a player-coach, directly embedded in 2-3 portfolio companies while building and eventually leading a team of PMs as your vertical grows. This is a senior, high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape how an entire industry segment gets transformed through AI and software.

You'll be responsible not just for outcomes at individual companies, but for developing the playbooks, frameworks, and institutional knowledge that scale across every business in your vertical. What works in one portco should make every other portco better. That's the job.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and outcomes across a defined vertical within Beacon's portfolio

• Directly manage 2-3 portfolio companies as a hands-on PM while building toward a team of 3-5 PMs over time

• Hire, onboard, and develop PMs within your vertical as the portfolio scales

• Develop and codify cross-portfolio playbooks that turn individual wins into repeatable systems

• Partner with GMs, founders, and operators to set product vision and translate it into executable roadmaps

• Drive quarterly and annual planning across your vertical, ensuring consistency and quality of product thinking

• Set the bar for how great product work looks at Beacon — spec quality, customer discovery, prioritization rigor

• Collaborate with engineering, data, and GTM teams to ship and scale features across multiple companies simultaneously

• Contribute to Beacon's broader AI platform by surfacing patterns and opportunities from your vertical

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years in a formal leadership role or as a co-founder

• Proven ability to lead and develop PMs, not just do great PM work yourself

• Deep B2B SaaS experience, ideally across multiple products or business contexts

• Strong systems thinker — you see patterns across companies and know how to turn them into playbooks

• Comfortable operating across multiple businesses and stakeholders simultaneously

• Ability to influence and earn trust with founders and executives without direct authority

• High autonomy, low ego. You figure things out and get them done

• Entrepreneurial mindset and genuine comfort with ambiguity

This role is perfect for you if...

• You've led a product team or co-founded a company and want to apply that experience at scale

• You have founding PM experience or have been an early product hire at a high-growth startup

• You are as excited about building team capability as you are about shipping great product

• You want real ownership over how an entire industry vertical gets transformed through software and AI

• You are commercially-minded and curious about private equity, rollups, and how profitable businesses are built

• You want to work somewhere that moves fast, and has the results to prove it

Our Values at Beacon Software

• Humility : We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.

• Honesty : We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.

• Hunger : We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.

• Horizon : We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.

How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process: To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Beacon Software uses Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.

 

AI does not make hiring decisions: Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.