Staff Product Designer, Brightwheel

Mobile Experience

$161-218k

+ Equity

iOS
Android
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Brightwheel

Online platform for early education management

Be an early applicant

Brightwheel

Online platform for early education management

201-500 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

Be an early applicant

$161-218k

+ Equity

iOS
Android
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

Company mission

To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.

Role

Who you are

  • 6+ years experience designing successful mobile apps, with examples of end-to-end mobile product design
  • Deep Experience with Apple HIG and Google Material Design
  • A highly collaborative approach to working with engineering and product teams. Constantly improving and open to feedback through collaboration
  • High quality bar: This role will be a tireless advocate for our customers’ mobile experience with brightwheel. You should be able to demonstrate how you’ve maintained design quality and accessibility across screen sizes, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness. You have a strong bias for action and focus on impact
  • Experience creating and working with an evolving mobile design system
  • A passion for improving the world through education

What the job involves

  • Brightwheel is seeking a Staff Product Designer, Mobile to drive work across iOS and Android.
  • You will play a critical leadership role in the strategy and execution of our mobile vision working on an embedded cross-functional product team with product managers, engineers, and designers to build beautiful, easy to use products for teachers and families across the globe.
  • You bring a strong understanding of design principles and best practices across a variety of project types
  • Lead the end-to-end design process for our mobile experience across iOS and Android platforms
  • Design end-to-end from wireframes, mid-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes
  • Develop and build upon a mobile design language that operates in concert with our brightwheel web experiences
  • Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iteratively improve the user experience and validate design solutions
  • Comfortable with defining and re-designing the information architecture of a mobile application
  • Maintain design consistency across the product, contributing to design systems and guidelines
  • Strong attention to detail while keeping an eye on the big picture
  • Develop north star vision for work, take projects 0-1

Our take

Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.

As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.

Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. Since their $55 million funding round, if it remains on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, Brightwheel will likely achieve its goal of going public in a few years time.

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-15% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2021

$55m

SERIES C

Oct 2018

$21m

SERIES B

Total funding: $88.8m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities

Company values

  • Deliver Value for Customers
  • Take Ownership
  • Get Better Every Day
  • Think Critically, Move Fast
  • Dive Deep
  • Trust, and Challenge
  • Make it Happen
  • Achieve Extraordinary Results

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.

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