Technology Operating Partner

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 engineering organizations
• Playbook Builder and Process Evangelist: Has built or led adoption of engineering best practices (agile workflows, observability, postmortems, documentation, PRDs) across teams, while maintaining speed and flexibility
• Technically Fluent: Comfortable rolling up their sleeves to advise on architecture decisions, infrastructure tooling, and technical trade-offs; experienced guiding long-term technical investments like language migrations and platform redesigns
• AI-Native Operator: Early adopter of AI tools for software development; has implemented or driven adoption of tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, Devin, Cursor, or similar across engineering teams
• Cross-Company Impact: Has managed engineering across multiple business units or operated in a holding company, platform, or multi-product context
• People-First Leader: Deep belief in mentorship and hands-on coaching; enjoys helping others grow and measures success through the success of their teams
• Systems Thinker: Understands how engineering decisions ripple through product, customer support, sales, and finance — and can design lightweight systems to ensure cross-functional alignment

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.