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
We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Privacy Counsel to join Beacon’s legal team as our first dedicated privacy specialist. This is a foundational role: you will build Beacon’s privacy strategy and architecture from the ground up, establishing the frameworks, policies, and processes that will govern how Beacon and its growing portfolio of vertical market software companies collect, use, and protect data.
What they're looking for
- J.D. from an accredited law school and member in good standing of at least one bar (California, New York, preferred)
- 7+ years of privacy law experience at a top-tier law firm, or 5–7 years of in-house privacy counsel experience at a technology company operating in a data-heavy environment
- Demonstrated experience building or leading a privacy function, including developing privacy programs, policies, and governance frameworks — not just advising on them
- Hands-on experience advising on diverse data types, including personal data, sensitive personal information, health data, financial data, and B2B data, across a range of industries and use cases
- Experience conducting or advising on privacy due diligence in M&A transactions, and familiarity with privacy considerations in corporate transactions, vendor relationships, and technology deployments
- Strong instincts for pragmatic, business-enabling privacy advice — able to identify and quantify risk, recommend proportionate controls, and help the business move forward rather than defaulting to “no.”
More about this role
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...
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