Chief of Staff to the CEO

At Beam, you get to do work that matters for the world. We’re solving the toughest social problems with an incredible team, tech and AI. And we’re growing fast 🚀

It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. But we take care of everyone who works here with everything from coaching to personal budgets and pay competitively. 

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. 

About the role

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).

You’ll be

• • 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

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

You’ll need

• • 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

About Beam

We’re a team of over 150 working from our beautiful, light-filled co-working space in Shoreditch and from home. 

We’ve picked up an armful of awards for our work, including one from our former Queen. We've also been named by WIRED as one of London's 10 hottest startups and by LinkedIn as a Top 15 UK Startup. Meanwhile, we've been covered in the media literally thousands of times, including the likes of The FT, BBC, TechCrunch, Forbes and The Guardian.

We’re also proud to be backed by some of the world's leading tech investors and entrepreneurs, including the founders of Booking.com, Calm, Shazam and Dropbox. 

Application process

Moving company is a big step. So 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.

1. 1st stage interview discussing the role, your experience and motivations
2. Take home task
3. Management scenarios
4. Culture & values interview

Feeling excited? 

Start your journey to a more impactful career today. We're excited to hear from you.