Product Director, Beam
£120-160k
Plus EMI-qualifying share options
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
Job no longer available
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£120-160k
Plus EMI-qualifying share options
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Role
Who you are
- Product Leadership - Successfully created and executed a Product strategy, connecting the dots with the overall objectives and Go-to-Market strategy
- Collaboration in mind - Demonstrable experience collaborating with peers - from engineering to data, design, operations, finance, and third parties, you'll be comfortable presenting, influencing and supporting cross-functional working
- A track record of success - A proven history of successful product discovery and delivery and are confident in managing the Product Manager on your team to strike a healthy balance
- Deep technical expertise - Understand well the mechanics, metrics, and levers of a B2B SaaS or efficiency tooling product with a specific focus on AI and automation, nice to have: background in engineering or data science
- Passion - A desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, excited by Beam’s company values, culture and ways of working
- A results-driven mindset - you thrive working towards ambitious team and individual KPIs
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Director to play a critical role delivering Beam’s digital products that span internal tooling and SaaS, with a focus on our AI
- Reporting to Alex, our CEO, you’ll be aligning product to company strategy and be at the forefront of transforming little-changed welfare services like employment and housing with the latest technologies
- Our latest product, Magic Notes, is an AI-powered tool currently in the pilot phase, with the potential to drive huge efficiencies in social work
- This is a hands-on role, managing one other Product Manager, we're looking for an experienced product leader who's managed and led exceptional technical products
- This person loves being part of a team - and working with them to deliver consistent excellence - as well as working with high accountability to driving measurable impact
- Being part of our product team within Beam will mean experimenting, learning from our mistakes and successes, setting a sky high quality bar for product, and influencing the strategic direction based on partner feedback and market demands
- Leading product strategy - You'll rapidly acquire deep knowledge of our products and markets and drive product strategy, working closely with both cofounders
- Hands-on in Product Management - As well as the clouds, you'll love be comfortable in the weeds of PM'ing, defining excellence in the details
- Increasing our efficiency - both of the product and team, in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm
- Establishing clear and measurable goals - Define and set meaningful goals, for which you hold yourself and your team accountable, including managing OKR cycles
- Making evidence-based decisions - Quickly using a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and market insights. You don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis, and if you find yourself there, you ask for help to get out of it
- Growing daily - Using mistakes as a great opportunity for learning, and turning those into constructive coaching for your team members, to help those around you try things differently
Application process
- We take hiring seriously. We have a four-stage interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you
- 30 mins with our Talent team
- 45 mins with the Hiring Manager
- Task and full debrief with the hiring team
- Final meeting with peers and other Leaders in Beam
- We continue to review new applications whilst managing people through the 4 stage process
Salary benchmarks
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 even 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.
AI has the potential to be a game changer for social workers and in a recent pilot, Beam's AI tool, Magic Notes, reduced the time spend on administrative tasks by over 60% and cut assessment write-ups from four hours to just 90 minutes. As councils explore next steps, Beam's technology is already redefining how frontline workers deliver care, so they can spend more time on what matters most.
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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
61% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.9)
Company
Company benefits
- Share options: Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
- 1:1 workplace coaching with More Happi
- Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
- Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
- Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
- Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
- Nursery scheme through Gogeta
- Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
- Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
- £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
- Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
- Pension scheme where we contribute 4% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
- Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
- Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme
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
Articles
Leadership
Alex Stephany
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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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