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Beam

Crowdfunding platform funding housing, training, jobs

Vice President of Product

Product ManagementUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeLondon, UK£165k - £200k /yrHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A proven track record at a highly rated, venture-capital-backed company scaling complex or enterprise products across multiple markets, combining strategic judgment with meticulous execution, credible commitments, and measurable results.
  • Experience hiring and developing excellent people, raising performance, and knowing when to delegate or get into the detail.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with an involved founder, challenge with evidence, and turn shared decisions into decisive action.
  • Understanding of what makes products useful, adoptable, and commercially successful, with care for craft and reliability.
  • Practical AI fluency, including actively using AI tools and working with engineers on model limitations, evaluation, and trade-offs between accuracy, speed, and cost.
  • Motivation to improve essential services and understanding of the responsibility of building for frontline teams.

Responsibilities

  • Shape product strategy, translate it into clear priorities, allocate effort across products with engineering, make trade-offs explicit, resolve competing demands, and stop work when evidence changes.
  • Establish clear owners, delivery dates, planning, and reviews; track commitments, surface risks early, remove blockers, and make progress and decisions visible while giving teams agency.
  • Set ambitious delivery, adoption, customer value, and commercial impact goals; review performance regularly, act when results fall short, and remain accountable for post-launch outcomes.
  • Spend time with users and customers, observe workflows, gather direct feedback, and combine firsthand insight with data to test assumptions and improve products.
  • Partner with sales and customer success to win customers and drive adoption, renewal, and expansion; contribute to pricing, understand running costs, and balance customer requests with scalable products.
  • Build acceptance criteria, rigorous quality assurance, AI evaluations, and monitoring into delivery; enable fast, controlled experiments and dependable releases with appropriate human oversight, security, and privacy.
  • Hire, coach, and develop product and design talent; set high standards, address underperformance, build effective partnerships with engineering, and scale the team while keeping ownership and decisions clear.
  • Lead product and design, shape Beam's product suite, and deliver products quickly.
  • Work with the co-founder on product strategy, priorities, and key product decisions; take accountability for running the function and delivering the agreed strategy.
  • Lead the five current Senior Product Managers and build the team and operating discipline for Beam's next stage of growth.

Desired Qualifications

  • A technical background or practical experience with coding, prototyping, data, or AI systems.

About the Company

Beam

Crowdfunding platform funding housing, training, jobs

Beam is a social enterprise and certified B Corp that uses crowdfunding to help disadvantaged people in the UK—such as those who are homeless or refugees—secure jobs, housing, and essential skills. It works by partnering with local authorities and charities to identify individuals in need and create personalized crowdfunding campaigns that the public can fund. Public donations cover costs like training, housing, and other services, with Beam earning revenue from service fees and partnerships with like-minded organizations. Since 2017, Beam has supported over 2,500 individuals. The company differs from others by combining a crowdfunding model with targeted social services and strong collaboration with public bodies, all aimed at delivering practical outcomes rather than just funding. Beam’s goal is to expand its impact, helping more people transition into stable work and housing while building sustainable funding through service fees and partnerships.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2017

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