Jessica Li
GTM and AI Product at Beacons
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Product and ML / Data Ops Lead
2025 - Current
Cartesia is a Series A company backed by Kleiner and Index that is building state space models for higher quality and more efficient foundation models
Director of Growth and AI Lead
2019
write a newsletter (distribution to 10K+ people) featuring Harvard alums in tech; interviews include Co-founders of Quora, Cloudflare, and Whoop CMO at BCG, Fidelity, Carta, and Axon CPO at Figma AI leaders at Anthropic, Ginkgo Bioworks, and YC Also lead the AI vertical
Venture Partner, Data and Enterprise
2020
Head of Operations and GTM
2024 - 2025
Series A AI native patent intelligence platform trusted by companies including Google, Tencent, Siemens, and Xerox
Certified Pilates Instructor
2023 - 2025
megaformer pilates, certified instructor (attended over 400 classes)
Growth and Technical Product
2022 - 2025
executive team at Beacons (raised $30 million, over 6 million users, 9 figure valuation) - managed our head of marketing and CEO office and worked on our AI semantic search marketplace in a technical PM role Beacons is an AI powered vertical SaaS platform for creators, creator managers, brands, and marketing agencies. Creator customers include Green Day, Sia, and Jeremy Lin; agency customers include UTA; brand customers include Perplexity, AG1, and Penguin Random House
Employee #1 and Chief of Staff / Business Operations Lead
2021 - 2022
joined as our first employee and built out recruiting (hired our founding eng/design/product hires - we're now at 40 full time!), ops, customer success, and finance
Beacons offers a platform for content creators to monetize their audience through different tools and services.
Raised $29,150,000.00 from Davidovs Venture Collective.
Deep Tech Contributor
2021 - 2022
covered deep tech
Founding Head of Content
2019 - 2021
YC backed community that grew to 100K+ members was the founding head of content and led featured posts, office hours, and social media published 150+ featured posts. interviewed: Founders of Glossier, Evite, Scale AI, Taskabbit, and Cowboy VC Senior execs at Brex, Glossier, Equinox, and Amazon
Where women in tech talk candidly online
Raised $1,250,000.00 from Y Combinator, Friále, January Ventures, Maveron, Moxxie Ventures, Jessica Livingston, Holly Liu, Tracy Chou, Geoff Ralston and Michael Seibel.
Growth Lead
2020 - 2021
joined as the 2nd growth hire Zageno is a General Catalyst backed Series C company and the world's largest eCommerce marketplace for life sciences
ZAGENO is an enterprise marketplace solution that connects e-commerce to life science.
Raised $121,000,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, OakRidge Management Group, Capnamic Ventures, Grazia Equity and General Catalyst.
Founding Head of Content
2020 - 2021
EVCA is a non-profit association that supports the next generation of venture capital investors.