About the role
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 — 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 We are seeking a highly ambitious M&A lawyer to join Beacon’s legal team and serve as the day-to-day legal lead on mergers and acquisitions transactions end-to-end, from LOI through post-closing. Reporting to Beacon’s VP, Legal, you will be the hands-on lawyer responsible for managing and executing deals – owning the legal work streams, driving diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, and ensuring deals get across the finish line. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for a lawyer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to be at the center of Beacon’s acquisition strategy. You will run deals internally as the primary legal resource on each transaction, conducting due diligence in-house, working directly with our M&A team, managing relationships with opposing counsel, and handling post-closing matters across our growing portfolio. We are looking for someone who is ready to do the heavy lifting on deals – someone with broad legal judgment who can spot and address general legal issues beyond the four corners of the purchase agreement, and who is prepared to leverage AI tools to drive efficiency across the entire deal lifecycle.
