Group Product Manager (Vertical Lead)

Beacon Software•Toronto, ON

About The Position

Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy, acquiring, operating, and growing vertical market software companies. They are niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked. Beacon seeks out founders who have built their business by understanding their market and prioritizing customer needs, then buys these businesses, invests in their growth, and holds them permanently, accelerating growth with an AI-native platform. Beacon is a technology company, not a financial firm, focused on supporting and improving important businesses in overlooked industries. The company is backed by significant investors and has raised over $550M. You'll be joining Beacon's Portfolio Product team as a Group Product Manager, owning product strategy and execution across a defined vertical within our portfolio. You'll start as a player-coach, directly embedded in 2-3 portfolio companies while building and eventually leading a team of PMs as your vertical grows. This is a senior, high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape how an entire industry segment gets transformed through AI and software. You'll be responsible for developing playbooks, frameworks, and institutional knowledge that scale across every business in your vertical. The deliverable is a running system, not slides.

Requirements

7+ years of product management experience
At least 2 years in a formal leadership role or as a co-founder
Proven ability to lead and develop PMs, not just do great PM work yourself
Deep B2B SaaS experience, ideally across multiple products or business contexts
Strong systems thinker — you see patterns across companies and know how to turn them into playbooks
Comfortable operating across multiple businesses and stakeholders simultaneously
Ability to influence and earn trust with founders and executives without direct authority
High autonomy, low ego. You figure things out and get them done
Entrepreneurial mindset and genuine comfort with ambiguity

Nice To Haves

You've led a product team or co-founded a company and want to apply that experience at scale
You have founding PM experience or have been an early product hire at a high-growth startup
You are as excited about building team capability as you are about shipping great product
You want real ownership over how an entire industry vertical gets transformed through software and AI
You are commercially-minded and curious about private equity, rollups, and how profitable businesses are built
You want to work somewhere that moves fast, and has the results to prove it

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and outcomes across a defined vertical within Beacon's portfolio
Directly manage 2-3 portfolio companies as a hands-on PM while building toward a team of 3-5 PMs over time
Hire, onboard, and develop PMs within your vertical as the portfolio scales
Develop and codify cross-portfolio playbooks that turn individual wins into repeatable systems
Partner with GMs, founders, and operators to set product vision and translate it into executable roadmaps
Drive quarterly and annual planning across your vertical, ensuring consistency and quality of product thinking
Set the bar for how great product work looks at Beacon — spec quality, customer discovery, prioritization rigor
Collaborate with engineering, data, and GTM teams to ship and scale features across multiple companies simultaneously
Contribute to Beacon's broader AI platform by surfacing patterns and opportunities from your vertical