Growth Lead

About the role

Meet with your pod leader 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 GMs and portfolio company employees can use to run GTM experiments themselves. Hire other great growth people.

Responsibilities

• Meet with your pod leader 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 GMs and portfolio company employees can use to run GTM experiments themselves.
• Hire other great growth people.

Requirements

• Former founders and growth marketers/GTM engineers with a track record of cracking growth channels and loops, ideally in B2B SaaS.
• Strong growth fundamentals: prioritizing channels, breaking down funnels, developing ICPs, automating prospecting and leadgen, copywriting, CRO, etc.
• Clear, concise writing.
• Comfort saying no to the wrong priorities.
• Enough vibe-coding chops to be dangerous, but not a man-with-a-hammer.
• Software engineering or finance background is a plus, but not required.

Qualifications

• 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 (Instacart, AngelList, Retool, and more).
• Have loads of control and autonomy over what you work on.
• 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.
• Amble LLM token budget.
• Makes meaningful equity in a hyperscaler that’s already profitable.

Skills

• Former founders and growth marketers/GTM engineers with a track record of cracking growth channels and loops, ideally in B2B SaaS.
• Clear, concise writing.
• Comfort saying no to the wrong priorities.
• Enough vibe-coding chops to be dangerous, but not a man-with-a-hammer.
• Software engineering or finance background is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• 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 (Instacart, AngelList, Retool, and more).
• Have loads of control and autonomy over what you work on.
• 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.
• Amble LLM token budget.
• Makes meaningful equity in a hyperscaler that’s already profitable.

Schedule

Full-time.

Pay

$100K - $150K base salary, commensurate with experience.

Company Culture

• 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.