Product Lead

Beacon acquires, operates, and grows vertical market software companies serving overlooked industries. The role joins Beacon's Portfolio Product team, a cross-functional group of Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, GTM experts, and Data Scientists working with 40+ portfolio companies. Each PM owns product outcomes for 2 to 5 portfolio companies, acting as a hands-on, founding product leader embedded in each business. The role is not a consulting role; the deliverable is a running software system. Beacon is backed by $550M+ raised to date. Values: Humility, Honesty, Hunger, Horizon. Beacon uses AI-enabled tools to assist with screening and organizing applications, but all hiring decisions are made by humans.

Responsibilities

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; As scope grows: build and lead a team of PMs, codify cross-portfolio playbooks, set the bar for product work quality, and own product strategy across a defined vertical

Requirements

BA/BS degree; 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS; Strong fundamentals in roadmapping, sprint planning, spec writing, prioritization frameworks; Sharp customer discovery instincts and the ability to identify high-impact opportunities fast; Comfortable managing multiple companies and stakeholders simultaneously; Ability to influence founders and executives without direct authority; For more senior candidates: a proven track record leading and developing other PMs; Strong systems thinking; High autonomy, low ego; Entrepreneurial mindset and genuine comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have

MBA; Senior candidates with 8+ years of experience, including 2+ years in a formal leadership role or as a co-founder; Ex-founder or founding PM / early product hire experience at a high-growth startup; Curiosity about private equity, rollups, and how profitable businesses are built