Chief of Staff to the CEO, Beam
£85-120k
2-5 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
£85-120k
2-5 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
- Humble, empathetic, hungry to make an impact
- Excited about the possibilities of tech and AI to bring change
- An experienced generalist, ready to execute (or learn) quickly when faced with a challenge
- Strategic and analytical, eyes on the big picture whilst constantly understanding what we need today to achieve tomorrow
- An engaging communicator, ready to communicate at all levels and functions within Beam
- Ambitious, dedicated to achieving great things and hands on and in the detail to achieve them
- A proven track record of driving high-performance in a high-growth tech company - evidence of excelling in a high-performance fast-moving culture as a senior managerial or Chief of Staff
- Hands-on Finance, Legal, People, or Talent experience - you’ll be used to executing in at least two of these functions - fundraising experience is a nice-to-have
- Strong quantitative skills - at ease working with numbers to decipher insights and deliver tangible changes, potentially developed via a quantitative degree and/or background in consulting or finance
- Ability to tell a story - natural communication skills and the gravitas to bring various teams and a truly diverse workforce together on a journey
- A passion for strategic project management - able to both meticulously plan and execute projects, with the confidence to change direction when something isn’t working
What the job involves
- Work alongside the Founder & CEO of the UK’s top social impact tech startup in this broad and mission-critical role
- You’ll be joining a company that’s having a huge positive impact with a high-performance culture where you can learn and grow, enjoy your career, and progress rapidly
- Beam has always blazed a trail: from starting out as the world’s first crowdfunding platform for homeless people to now leveraging the latest technologies to reinvent welfare services with AI
- As the Chief of Staff to Alex Stephany, Beam’s Founder & CEO, you’ll have a front row seat as Beam continues to define how technology and AI can be used for good in the startup ecosystem
- This is not for a mere onlooker: this role is for an ambitious and deeply capable executor and doer, who is excited to deliver complex work across a range of functions against their own sky-high standards - and at speed
- Alex’s first Chief of Staff is today Beam’s Chief Customer Officer
- This role will also bring an opportunity to pave your own way and career at Beam while learning from an experienced founder who previously ran Index Ventures-backed JustPark (acquired)
- Leading people and teams - you’ll be an experienced, highly capable team leader and manager, excited to deliver high-performance from yourself and those you manage
- Operational superstar - you can elegantly simplify the complex and create clear memorable processes for use across a team of nearly 200 Beamers
- Metric-obsessed - you’ll be energised by setting KPIs and OKRs (we use a variant called Impact Goals) - then executing against them with strong discipline
- Hands-on and strategic - you’ll develop impressive customer and market knowledge and input into company-wide strategy with our leadership team
- Building models and analysing data - you’ll be a GSheets whiz, comfortable building models, dashboards, and working with large amounts of company data to iterate how we work
- Open to taking on new challenges on a regular basis - you’ll be excited to have variety in your role, solving a conveyor belt of problems of different shapes and sizes
Application process
- We have a rigorous process that's not for everyone, but key to giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you
- 1st stage interview discussing the role, your experience and motivations
- Take home task
- Management scenarios
- Culture & values interview
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 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
Articles
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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