Head of Marketing and Communications, Beam
$90-110k
+ Equity
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
Posted today
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
101-200 employees
Posted today
$90-110k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced B2B marketer - you’ll bring bags of experience in high growth SaaS environments
- A swiss army knife - you love owning the whole funnel and have experience across demand generation, lifecycle marketing, and product marketing
- A first class communicator - you can write copy which resonates decision-makers, users and prospective customers
- A commercial and analytical marketer - you know how to connect marketing activity to impact, and love learning about new industries and areas
- Results-driven - you thrive working towards ambitious individual KPIs
- A high performance leader - you have experience leading small teams, and enjoy helping others to grow whilst staying close to the work yourself
- Adaptive and resilient - you thrive in a dynamic environment and are optimistic about overcoming obstacles while maintaining motivation
- Create and solutions focused - when there’s a bottleneck, you bring solutions and novel ideas for experimentation that deliver value for customers
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll manage and lead a small team while directly owning the go-to-market strategy and execution for key areas of the business
- Reporting directly to the executive team and working closely with our founders, you’ll directly shape how Beam shows up in the world
- You’ll work across the entire customer journey—collaborating with sales, customer success, and product—to drive adoption, launch new features, and expand our impact
- As Beam evolves from Magic Notes into a broader product suite, you’ll help us enter new verticals, grow our footprint with government partners, and bring new tools to life for users
- This is a fast paced, broad and high impact role in a rapidly growing tech-for-good
- Leading go-to-market strategy – from launching new products to sales enablement, you’ll work closely with Product, Customer Success, Support and Sales to bring new products to market
- Driving demand across multiple channels – from PR to email, content and social, you’ll build and optimise campaigns that generate high-quality leads
- Owning campaign funnels – you’ll work collaboratively to continually define our ideal customer profiles, and build dashboards that give us real-time insight into what’s working
- Running targeted lifecycle campaigns – you’ll segment audiences, A/B test ideas, and write sharp, tailored copy that speaks directly to our users in different verticals
- Engaging users with vertical specific content - targeted lifecycle campaigns with engaging webinars, events and content will help our users get the most out of Beam
- Sharing the Beam story – you’ll help us stand out with bold, clear, consistent messaging. Regular PR and thought leadership ensures Beam seen with the audiences who matter
- Building a high performance team – you’ll lead, coach and manage a small, growing team while staying hands-on with execution, especially in high-impact areas
- Partnering across the business – working closely with sales, product, customer success and the leadership team to ensure marketing supports and accelerates company goals
Our take
Trusted by over 100 government partners, Beam is a social enterprise that brings AI to welfare services. Enabled by tech and AI, their caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, whilst their software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers across the UK.
Beam is funded by established names in the UK tech scene, the world's top impact funds and the Mayor of London. Founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, brings a track record from his previous startup backed by Index Ventures and was recently named Purpose Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. The rest of Beam's senior team has their own wealth of experience from a variety of leading startups, tech, and social impact businesses like Arm, Multiverse, and GoCardless.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business awards - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK. Their work has been covered widely in the media, with features from the BBC, The Times, FT, Forbes and The Independent.
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Meet the team
5 people
Rachel Astall, CCO
Our mission
Our 5-person C-Suite brings together leaders from tech, care work and AI - bringing a wealth of diverse experience.Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"I love working for Beam because you can be certain that everything you do day-to-day will have a visible and lasting impact on a homeless person."
Company benefits
- Share options - Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Annual retreat - Bond with teammates on a yearly team retreat
- Team talks - Network with big name tech entrepreneurs
- Meditation app - Free subscription to Calm meditation app
- Cyclescheme - Get a discounted bike and accessories
- Generous Holiday - 28 days per year + bank holidays
- Hybrid working - Work at our beautiful Shoreditch office or at home
- 1:1 workplace coaching through More Happi
- 1:1 financial wellbeing through Bippit
- Discounted tech products with Techscheme
- On-demand therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
Company values
- 💙 Mission First - We drive the mission for those we serve with heart, grit and zero ego
- 🚀 Aim High and Deliver - We deliver outsized impact through setting and executing against ambitious targets
- 🏎️ Raise the Pace - We move with urgency and accelerate others, without compromising excellence
- 🌱 Get Better Together - Everything is a work in progress. We constantly work on improving ourselves and Beam
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Stephany
(CEO)Previously CEO of JustPark, a leading online marketplace for parking with over 4m customers backed by Index Ventures. Expert on the sharing economy and author of The Business of Sharing (Macmillan).
Seb Barker
(COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Ryan joined in 2020 as an Operations Executive. Since then, they have held a number of roles and are now the Head of Operations.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
- We work hard to build teams that are diverse in every way.
- We’re committed to creating inclusive hiring processes which allow people with diverse backgrounds to showcase their talents
- We particular encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in startups: those from black and underrepresented ethnic groups and people with lived experience of homelessness/social disadvantage
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