Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
On-the-Ground Execution: Work directly with the CTO and embed with portcos during critical inflection points. First priority: Solid Starts as they onboard Cortex and Arc. You will serve as the eyes, ears, and hands on the ground to ensure critical launches and migrations land smoothly.
What they're looking for
- Background: Ideally a former founder (3–4 years out of school, YC or equivalent accelerator background preferred). Must have experience working as a Chief of Staff at the Office of the CTO
- AI-Native Builder: Builds with agents and modern AI-assisted tools by default, not as an afterthought
- Hands-On & Versatile: Proven track record of building and shipping full-stack products end-to-end. Comfortable diving into unfamiliar stacks and reading code quickly
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of writing technical blogs and communicating complex systems to non-technical stakeholders
- Mindset: Extreme hustle, high adaptability, and strong systems thinking. (Note: This is an elite technical execution role, not a project management or administrative EA position.)
- Our Values at Beacon Software
More about this role
Beacon is unlike most product companies. Where others start with a single core product and expand into adjacencies over time, portfolio diversity is a Day 0 reality for the organization. Every product and team across the portfolio operates differently.
The CTO’s internal "customers" range from portfolio company (portco) engineering teams and pod leaders to the deal team. Because of this multi-faceted structure, there is a constant stream of deeply technical, high-impact work that no single pod or portco owns. The complexity lies in the sheer heterogeneity: no two problems are the same, and they compound rapidly as new businesses are acquired and integrated.
Today, this work either lands directly on the CTO or does not happen. A technical Chief of Staff who can jump seamlessly in and out of unfamiliar codebases, architectures, and cross-functional teams closes that gap. The right candidate will increase overall leverage by an order of magnitude which is the baseline expectation for this role.
On-the-Ground Execution: Work directly with the CTO and embed with portcos during critical inflection points. First priority: Solid Starts as they onboard Cortex and Arc. You will serve as the...
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