Product Counsel

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 and services companies: niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are too specific for the enterprise giants and too profitable to ignore. Our model is simple. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently. 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. We seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. Our flexible structure offers entrepreneurs a unique option to implement a transition that ensures the continuity of the company while receiving liquidity at full value for their equity in their business. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable. We are permanent, committed capital with no exit pressure and a long-term time horizon, backed by a diverse base of investors including Wall Street (D1 Capital, CPMG), Silicon Valley (General Catalyst and Lightspeed), the family offices of world-class technology entrepreneurs (including the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp), and evergreen funds built for the long game (Sator Grove). Beacon was founded by Nilam Ganenthiran, entrepreneur, former President of Instacart, and investor at D1 Capital, who has spent his career building, scaling, and backing high-growth technology businesses. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a commercially minded Product Counsel to join Beacon’s legal team as our dedicated product and IP specialist. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of law, technology, and product strategy: you will be the primary legal partner to Beacon and its portfolio’s product and engineering functions — advising on new product features and development across our portfolio in different industries, protecting Beacon’s intellectual property, and managing the full spectrum of product-related legal matters across our growing portfolio of businesses. Reporting to Beacon’s VP, Legal, you will work closely with product managers, engineers, and commercial teams both at Beacon and within portfolio companies to enable fast-moving, innovation-focused product decisions while proactively managing legal risk. You will bring broad regulatory fluency across multiple industries — a genuine asset given the diversity of verticals represented in our portfolio — and will own Beacon’s IP portfolio strategy, open source compliance program, and product-related commercial agreements. As Beacon scales, there is also a meaningful opportunity for the right person to grow this role to encompass broader commercial contracting responsibilities across the platform. This is a role for a lawyer who wants to be embedded in the work, thrives in a fast-paced and high-autonomy environment, and is excited by the prospect of building and shaping their remit over time. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Product Legal Partnership — Beacon & Portfolio Companies: Serve as the embedded legal partner to Beacon’s product and engineering teams, and as a hands-on advisor to the product and engineering teams across Beacon’s portfolio companies. Advise on new product features, roadmap decisions, and go-to-market launches from ideation through release, identifying legal risks early and providing practical, enabling guidance. Build trusted relationships with product managers, engineers, and designers across the platform so that legal input is integrated into the product development process rather than treated as a downstream gate. Develop scalable legal support models that allow portfo