Job Specifications
Beacon Software is a permanent capital holding company which acquires and grows essential businesses. We are a profitable series B+ firm that combines great technologists, operators and M&A professionals to accelerate the scale of the ambition of the dozens of businesses we own and operate. We are supported by capital from tier-1 venture capital, crossover, and endowment investors as well as the founders of the leading technology companies from the past decade.
We are growing our team in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. Apply below.
Technology Operating Partner
This is an exciting and entrepreneurial opportunity to join a fast-paced technology company with a steep growth trajectory. As a Technology Operating Partner, you will oversee all of the technology teams across Beacon's diverse portfolio of mission-critical software businesses. You will act as a coach, mentor, and force-multiplier for the CTOs in the portfolio – elevating leadership, improving technical discipline, implementing and scaling best practices, and building scalable processes to help each company and the overall portfolio thrive. This is a unique opportunity to shape the growth of a portfolio of enduring software businesses, while enabling real-world customers with great technology. Your role includes:
overseeing the technology teams of all Beacon portfolio companies
overseeing execution of each product's technical roadmap
working with individual CTOs to develop the architecture and technology strategy for their specific product
recruiting/mentoring a high performance team of CTOs, SWEs, data scientists, and product managers.
Scope of Responsibility
People Leadership & Engineering Talent Development
Cultivate a centralized pool of top engineering talent to serve across Beacon's portfolio companies.
Partner with company GMs and CTOs to recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing engineers and technical leaders.
Define engineering management standards, establish expectations for technical leaders, and implement accountability frameworks to support long-term leadership development.
Engineering Culture & Process Implementation
Drive adoption of the Beacon Engineering Playbook across all portfolio companies to instill a consistent, high-performance engineering culture.
Standardize agile ceremonies (e.g., sprints, standups), feature flagging, and blameless postmortems.
Ensure consistent implementation of on-call processes, product requirements documentation (PRDs), and technical documentation.
Champion quarterly planning cycles and ROI-based prioritization for initiatives.
Technology & Product Execution
Guide company CTOs on key technical decision-making (e.g., infrastructure choices, database vendors, scalability parameters)
Provide mentorship and oversight for major technology initiatives, including UI redesigns, system migrations, and language rewrites
Set best practices for AI-powered development workflows and evaluate new tools (e.g., Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, Windsurf) to improve productivity
Support and oversee cross-portfolio technical initiatives to unlock synergies and shared innovation
Qualifications
Proven experience scaling and mentoring engineering teams across multiple business units or companies, ideally in a multi-product or holding company structure.
Demonstrated ability to implement and maintain modern software engineering best practices across diverse teams.
Experience managing technical infrastructure, agile workflows, product specification documentation, and observability systems.
Familiarity with AI development tools and enthusiasm for leveraging AI to improve engineering velocity.
Strategic thinker with strong coaching ability, capable of elevating the technical leadership of portfolio company CTOs and engineering leads.
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and comfort working alongside founders, GMs, and operating leaders.
Outcomes / Key Challenges
Engineering Maturity Uplift: Institutionalize best-in-class engineering practices across the portfolio; create consistency in processes, technical documentation, and accountability
Talent Elevation: Recruit and nurture high-potential engineering leaders; transform promising engineers into capable technical leaders aligned with Beacon's long-term mission
Productivity Through Process: Balance process implementation with pragmatism; standardize without bureaucracy to unlock engineering throughput and agility
AI-Driven Advantage: Create portfolio-wide advantage by championing best-in-class adoption of AI development tools and embedding AI into customer-facing products
Cross-Portfolio Innovation: Foster technical knowledge-sharing and identify opportunities for shared technical infrastructure and tooling across companies
Ideal Candidate
Engineering Executive with Coaching DNA: Has experience as a VP or Head of Engineering, ideally in a high-growth software environment, with a strong track record of developing technical leaders and scaling enginee
About the Company
Beacon is the permanent home for Main Street software and services supporting the real economy. We buy, build, and grow exceptional mission-critical software businesses, preserving their legacy while expanding the scale of their founders’ ambitions. Our model is different. Unlike private equity, we don’t buy to flip. We hold forever, investing in product, customers, and teams for the long term. Founders who join Beacon gain more than capital: they access in-house engineering, AI, design, and fintech expertise, as well as a n...
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