Wesley Thompson

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Co-founder & COO at Beacon Mobility · B2B sales, product

Beacon Mobility
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
Booth School of Business
English
Hiring
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Beacon Mobility, working on B2B payments. Grew the team to 32 people across 5 countries. Before that: Atlassian and Twilio. Most at home with product and agriculture. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about B2B payments
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Fundraising consultants
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
fundraisingfintechB2B salesproductagriculture
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Beacon Mobility is hiring 2 founding engineers in San Francisco

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$120k-$186k + equity
Team
Founding team, 4 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with agriculture Production experience with fintech Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $157k-$244k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CAb2b salesfundraisingagriculture
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Beacon Mobility · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew the team to 93 people across 3 countries.
    • Raised $6 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Business Analyst
    Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
    Atlassian · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 27% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 10 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
  3. Business Analyst
    Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
    Twilio · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 2.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 28% in two quarters.
  4. Associate Partner
    Nov 2014 - Jun 2017
    Pfizer · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 14 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    BS, Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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