Growth Lead - San Francisco

Beaconholdings; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Software is seeking a growth-focused operator to dive into portfolio companies, brainstorm, prioritize, and execute growth experiments. You will work with product leads and portfolio GMs to align product direction with user learnings and drive revenue.

This role offers hands-on ownership, autonomy, and the chance to ship concrete growth programs while gaining exposure to private equity insights and AI-enabled GTM tooling within a fast-moving team.

Qualifications

• You write clearly and concisely.
• You’ve cracked a growth channel or loop before and have delivered value.
• You try things yourself to know what "good" looks like before you outsource them.
• You’re skeptical of vanity metrics.
• You vibe code enough to be dangerous, but you’re not a man-with-a-hammer.
• You’re broadly curious about how businesses work.
• You like to ship.

Responsibilities

• Working with our Product Leads and portfolio company GMs, marrying product direction with user learnings to brainstorm growth experiments.
• Prioritize, build, and launch experiments that meaningfully drive revenue.
• Identify and optimize growth loops at portfolio companies.
• Track and improve conversion at every major step of the marketing funnel.
• Build systems (e.g., playbooks, Claude skills, mini-products) that less technical folks can use to run GTM experiments themselves.
• Hire other great growth people.

Skills

Growth mindset

Growth experiments

Clear communication

Autonomy

Job description

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 companies. They are niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore.

Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently, accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable.

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.

Beacon is backed by a diverse base of investors, with $550M+ raised to date, including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp, and evergreen funds built for the long game.

About the Role:

Beacon Software buys businesses. You get to grow them. This can take almost any shape. Here are real projects our team ran over the last few months:

• Launched ads across Meta and Google.
• Ran a full outbound process (lead gen, copywriting, outreach) on behalf of a sales team.
• Vibe coded an interactive TAM map to figure out which states and provinces to prioritize.
• Designed and launched landing pages.
• Built a system to flag high-dollar accounts at risk of churning.
• Cross-sold into other portfolio companies.
• Gameplanned a conference.
• Prototyped a programmatic SEO strategy.
• (And much more!)

Want some industry jargon? You’ll be a fractional head of growth (a forward-deployed GTM engineer?) who goes deep into portfolio companies and brainstorms, prioritizes, and executes on growth experiments.

We’re looking for people who can go into a business, ask the right questions with little context, launch experiments, and drive revenue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with our Product Leads and portfolio company GMs, marrying product direction with user learnings to brainstorm growth experiments.
• Prioritize, build, and launch experiments that meaningfully drive revenue.
• Identify and optimize growth loops at portfolio companies.
• Track and improve conversion at every major step of the marketing funnel.
• Build systems (e.g., playbooks, Claude skills, mini-products) that less technical folks can use to run GTM experiments themselves.
• Hire other great growth people.

Who are you?

• A growth hire at a startup who wants to get back to early-stage work and ship things.
• A former founder who took their company from 0 to 1.
• An agency owner or growth consultant sick of doing their own BD, but who enjoys the day-to-day work. (Run an agency? We’re open to acquiring your team!)

Additionally:

• You write clearly and concisely.
• You’ve cracked a growth channel or loop before and have delivered value.
• You try things yourself to know what "good" looks like before you outsource them.
• You’re skeptical of vanity metrics.
• You vibe code enough to be dangerous, but you’re not a man-with-a-hammer.
• You’re broadly curious about how businesses work.
• You like to ship.

Why would you want this role?

• Get a first-person view into the world of private equity, rollups, and AI.
• Access proprietary learnings about vertical SaaS businesses in a variety of industries.
• Work with a team of former YC founders, growth leaders, and execs at Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing companies like Instacart, AngelList, Coinbase, and Retool.
• Have loads of control and autonomy over what you work on.

You get to be artsy AND sciencey.

• Like writing copy and brainstorming video ideas? You get to do that.
• Like reading investment memos and deeply understanding businesses? You get to do that, too.

Our Values at Beacon Software

• Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.
• Honesty: We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.
• Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.
• Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.

How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process: To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Beacon Software uses Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.

AI does not make hiring decisions: Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.