Group CPO

Beacon https://beaconsoftware.com 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 CPO, 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 - BA/BS Degree, MBA a plus - 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