Lead,Governance,Risk,Compliance&Privacy(GRC)

ABOUT BEACON SOFTWARE Beacon https://beaconsoftware.com/ is acquiring and operating a portfolio of vertical SaaS companies. Most private equity firms scale by adding people. We are building Beacon to scale by adding software. The thesis is simple: portfolio operations, value creation, and deal sourcing are bottlenecked by human attention, and an agentic operating system can lift that ceiling by an order of magnitude. We are looking for a GRC leader to build and scale the governance, risk, compliance, and privacy function for a growing portfolio of software companies. This is a founding, high-ownership role for someone who has built before and treats automation and modern AI tooling as the default way to operate. Beacon has raised $550M+ from investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, and the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp.   ABOUT THE ROLE Our GRC function is at an early, formative stage. You would shape it from the foundations and scale it across the portfolio, working directly with our portfolio companies to take them through their own audits and certifications, and designing a program that grows with the business rather than one built for a single audit. The mandate spans security compliance, data privacy, risk, and AI governance. We expect it to be built AI-first: modern automation platforms and LLM-assisted workflows over manual process. WHAT YOU'LL DO The role spans two scopes: - Beacon. The holdco's enterprise governance program: security policy, AI governance, data governance and privacy, enterprise and third-party risk, and posture reporting. Governance-led, including any frameworks Beacon itself elects to pursue. - Portfolio companies. Taking our portfolio companies through their own audits and certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, accessibility conformance, and others as their customers require), delivered hands-on as a repeatable service that scales across the portfolio. Underpinning both: a common contr