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 commercially minded Product Counsel to join Beacon’s legal team as our dedicated product and IP specialist. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of law, technology, and product strategy: you will be the primary legal partner to Beacon and its portfolio’s product and engineering functions — advising on new product features and development across our portfolio in different industries, protecting Beacon’s intellectual property, and managing the full spectrum of product-related legal matters...
What they're looking for
- J.D. from an accredited law school and member in good standing of at least one bar (California or New York preferred)
- 5–7 years of product, technology, and IP law experience at a top-tier law firm, or 4–5 years of in-house product and IP counsel experience at a technology company
- Broad product law experience spanning IP strategy and portfolio management, software and SaaS licensing, open source compliance, and product-facing commercial agreements
- Broad regulatory experience across multiple industries, with the ability to quickly come up to speed on sector-specific legal frameworks and advise product teams on compliance obligations in verticals outside of mainstream consumer technology
- Experience advising on AI/ML products and familiarity with the evolving legal landscape around training data rights, and AI regulation is a strong plus
- Strong background in patent strategy and prosecution management, trademark portfolio oversight, and IP ownership and licensing structures
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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