Generalist / Portco Recruiter

About the role

We are actively building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind at beaconsoftware.com. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies that are niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore. Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently, accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable. We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about. Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better.

Fresh off a $225M Series C, we are acquiring companies at pace and the hiring demand that comes with it is real. As we scale, we are looking to build our in-house business and G&A recruiting function, while also expanding our talent offerings to our portcos. This is a unique, multi-faceted role for a superstar generalist recruiter who can run full-cycle searches across finance, sales, marketing, operations, HR, and customer success, both at Beacon's corporate team and inside our portfolio companies. You will own full-cycle recruiting for non-engineering and non-product roles on the corporate side, ensuring high-quality hires across finance, marketing, sales, operations, M&A, and business development from initial outreach to signed offer. You will parachute into portfolio companies to own one-off senior hires, such as a Product Marketing Manager, a Head of Sales, or an Ops lead, rapidly learning the business and running the search end-to-end alongside a GM who may never have worked with a dedicated recruiter before. You will constantly context-switch, juggling multiple open roles at once across different functions, companies, and markets, each with its own comp band, hiring bar, and stakeholder. You will act as a strategic partnership, building hiring plans with GMs and functional leaders as both a thought and recruiting partner. You will leverage creative sourcing where LinkedIn is the floor, not the ceiling, utilizing functional networks, referrals, niche communities, and AI-assisted tooling to find the right channel for every role. You will maintain operational rigor, as we use Ashby and take our data seriously, requiring clean pipelines, tight feedback loops, and disciplined processes. You will own the close, navigating compensation conversations and competing offers with ease to drive negotiations to a successful close. You will also help build the Beacon brand in markets and functions we have not actively recruited in before.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for corporate roles across finance, marketing, sales, operations, M&A, and business development from sourcing to offer signing.
• Parachute into portfolio companies to run end-to-end searches for senior one-off hires, learning businesses quickly and acting as the dedicated recruiter alongside general managers.
• Constantly context-switch between multiple open roles across different functions, companies, and markets, each with unique comp bands and hiring standards.
• Act as a strategic thought and recruiting partner, building proactive hiring plans with GMs and functional leaders.
• Leverage creative and diverse sourcing channels beyond traditional job boards, including functional networks, referrals, niche communities, and AI-assisted tooling.
• Maintain strict operational discipline using Ashby, ensuring clean pipelines, tight feedback loops, and data-driven decision-making.
• Lead negotiations and closes, navigating comp conversations and competing offers to secure offers efficiently.
• Build and strengthen the Beacon brand in under-recruited markets and functions to attract top-tier talent.
• Partner closely with finance, sales, marketing, and operations leaders to align hiring strategies with business objectives.
• Continuously assess and refine sourcing strategies to improve quality and speed of hire across all verticals.

Requirements

• Bring 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a generalist background, comfortable calibrating fast on, and recruiting for roles and industries you have not extensively recruited for.
• Thrive in high-growth, multi-entity environments without needing a playbook for every function, and enjoy writing the playbook as you go.
• Rapidly learn unfamiliar functions or industries well enough to calibrate talent without a hiring manager holding your hand.
• Communicate authentically, with a polished, persuasive verbal and written style in professional settings.
• Self-direct your work, prioritizing across a shifting slate of roles and delivering results without direct supervision.
• Have hands-on experience with Ashby or Greenhouse to manage pipelines and process rigorously.
• Hold a BA/BS degree or equivalent experience that demonstrates foundational business and people skills.

Nice to have

• You have recruited for PE-backed, multi-entity, or holding-company businesses and understand the dynamics of hiring across autonomous units.
• You have recruited GM-level or executive roles, not just individual contributors.
• You have built out a function you did not come from, such as finance, sales, or ops, and know what a strong bar looks like outside your home turf.
• You are comfortable managing many stakeholders at once without needing a single hiring manager to anchor your process.

Practical notes

The role is full-time based in Toronto, Ontario. We are committed to building a diverse team and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All information provided on this page is sourced directly from the original job description provided by the hiring team at Beacon Software.