Beacon Software
SaaS
GrowthLead
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“Growth Lead at Beacon Software. Skills: Growth experimentation, Systems building, Revenue generation. Design go-to-market experiments. Run go-to-market experiments”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive revenue; Meaningfully drive revenue
Industry & Context.
Ask the right questions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Track record of cracking growth channels, Track record of cracking growth loops, Clear, concise writing, Comfort saying no to wrong priorities
Nice to Have
Software engineering background, Finance background
What You'll Do.
Design go-to-market experiments
Run go-to-market experiments
Cross-sell into portfolio companies
Game plan a conference
Scrape high-intent lead lists
Meet with portfolio company GMs
Brainstorm growth experiments
Prioritize experiments
Identify growth loops
Optimize growth loops
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional team; Work with portfolio companies; Collaborate with GMs
Communication Scope
Clear writing; Concise writing
Full Job Description
ABOUT BEACON SOFTWARE Beacon Software is a permanent capital holding company which acquires and grows essential businesses. We are a profitable Series C firm that combines great technologists, operators and M&A professionals to accelerate the scale of the ambition of the dozens of businesses we own and operate. We are supported by capital from tier-1 venture capital, crossover, and endowment investors as well as the founders of the leading technology companies from the past decade. We are growing our team in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. Apply below. You’ll be joining Beacon’s Acceleration team: a cross-functional group of Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, GTM experts, and Data Scientists. We work closely with portfolio companies to solve problems, create and implement playbooks, and build new features and products. ABOUT THE ROLE Beacon Software buys businesses. You get to grow them. Specifically, you’ll design and run go-to-market experiments for a pod of 3-4 companies we’ve acquired in a particular industry (education, industrials, parks & rec, etc). This can take any shape: you might launch ads, cross-sell into other portfolio companies, game plan a conference, scrape high-intent lead lists, write copy, or vibe-code a dashboard. To put it another way, you’ll be a fractional head of growth, with an eye towards systems and playbooks that generalize across portfolio companies. We’re looking for an animal who can go into a business, ask the right questions with little context, launch experiments, and drive revenue. Basically, we’re looking for The Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOZB6mNqhuA, but for growth. WHY WOULD YOU WANT THIS ROLE? - Get a first-person view into the world of private equity, rollups, and AI. - Access proprietary learnings about vertical SaaS businesses in a variety of industries. - Work with a team of former YC founders, growth leaders, and execs at Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing companies (Instacart, AngelList, Retool, and
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