Founding Product Design Lead for AI-Driven Vertical Apps

Beaconsoftware; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon seeks a Design Lead to turn complex business problems into deployable AI-enabled software. You will embed with portfolio companies, collaborate with operators, designers, and engineers, and own initiatives from discovery through adoption.

Expect ownership beyond launch and the creation of reusable building blocks for others. You will drive outcomes across multiple portfolio teams, delivering measurable improvements and reusable workflows while balancing practicality with innovation.

Qualifications

• Evidence of taking ambiguous product or operational problems through delivery to sustained use and measurable improvement.
• Product judgment: challenge requests, uncover constraints and prioritize.
• Technical fluency in AI-enabled products, integrations, data and evaluations. Inspect behavior and traces, prototype ideas, and discuss reliability, cost and technical tradeoffs with engineers.
• Earn trust with operators and leaders, communicate clearly, and lead cross-functional work without formal authority.
• Sound judgment about risk, permissions, human review and when not to automate.
• Production AI workflow experience is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Find the right problem. Understand customer needs and product priorities with portfolio teams.
• Observe real work, cases, exceptions, decisions, handoffs and constraints.
• Prioritize by value, feasibility, effort, risk and reuse.
• Shape the product and the proof. Agree a bounded pilot, users, baseline, success criteria and stop conditions with the product or business owner.
• Simplify the process before deciding where people, software or agents belong.
• Lead delivery with your partners. Set requirements and priorities.
• Partner with portfolio product and engineering teams, and designers where needed, to test the smallest complete solution, resolve dependencies and adjust scope as you learn.
• Stay through adoption. Test with customers and operators.
• Protect reliability and continuity, define failure and recovery paths, organize rollout and training, and improve through live feedback.
• A launch is a milestone, not the outcome.
• Prove the value. Measure accepted results, recurring use, quality, time and total cost, including review, rework and support.
• Distinguish estimated capacity released from realized savings.
• Recommend whether to improve, expand or stop.
• Leave the company stronger. Hand off to named business and technical owners with their acceptance.
• Capture reusable workflows, evaluation cases and lessons.
• Use Arc, our emerging agents, workflows and applications platform, where it helps the deployment.
• Bring field evidence to Arc and Cortex, which unites business context, data and insights.

Skills

Product judgment

AI-enabled product fluency

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Arc platform

Cortex

Job description

Beacon seeks a Design Lead to turn complex business problems into deployable AI-enabled software. You will embed with portfolio companies, collaborate with operators, designers, and engineers, and own initiatives from discovery through adoption.

Expect ownership beyond launch and the creation of reusable building blocks for others. You will drive outcomes across multiple portfolio teams, delivering measurable improvements and reusable workflows while balancing practicality with innovation.