Chief of Staff to the CEO, Beam
£85-120k
2-5 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
Be an early applicant
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£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
Beam is an ambitious social impact business focused on creating equality of opportunity at scale. They're starting by crowdfunding brighter futures for homeless people in London, creating a powerful new model to help disadvantaged people get into stable work.
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 the rest of Beam's senior team have their own wealth of experience.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business award - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
65% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
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
- ⚡️ We make an impact - we change lives and fix social problems by setting and achieving ambitious targets
- 🗯 We're open & transparent - we communicate openly and transparently with each other and the world
- 🌱 We get better together - we support each other to improve and actively work on personal growth - with no ego
- 🔦 We're beams of energy and focus - we bring energy and strive for laser focus in our work
Company HQ
London, UK
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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
Bluinse is a rising star in ops, focused on Beam Lettings: a pioneering service supporting homeless people into stable homes. Outside of Beam, Bluinse is a bit of a dance star with over 100k subs.
Ryan (no relation to Bluinse :) ) is another rising star in ops, supporting homeless people into stable jobs. Ryan loves footie and guitar. He also organises 'Active Wellbeaming' - our paid for team PT.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
Amira & Kat (Chairs of DEI 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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