Group Product Manager, Brightwheel
$161-258k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
Open for applications
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$161-258k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a strategic product leader with management experience though this will be an IC role to start — to oversee the Education product experience.
- This means that you are eager to roll up your sleeves; will go deep to understand needs and use cases; and will lean in however needed to make magic happen for our customers
- 7 + years of product management experience
- Proven experience overseeing a large, business critical product area with multiple groups and/or complex, consumer-facing products
- Strong technical and business acumen, with experience operating at a leadership level
- Previous experience hiring and managing a high performance team of Product Managers
- Deep user empathy and experience bringing together user research, insights & data
- Proven ability to break down hard, ambiguous problems and translate them into clear, focused solutions
- A strong track record of scoping, launching, and growing high impact products
- Demonstrated ability to roll up your sleeves (no task too big or too small!) and move quickly to achieve outcomes
- Strong team player: support + collaborate with ease across engineering, design, and other functions
- A passion and drive for improving the world through education and technology
What the job involves
- You will own defining the vision and strategy for this area, and will lead your cross-functional pod and peers to execute the highest priority initiatives that will drive business impact
- Brightwheel is in a period of massive growth — we have an incredible opportunity to scale our platform, and we need your leadership, problem solving, and product management skills, combined with your personal drive and results-oriented mentality to be successful
- We are a lean, product-driven company, and have a high bar for what and how we build products
- You will work in close partnership with colleagues across various functions, including Design, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Sales and Support, to ensure you are solving the right problems and bringing solutions to market to maximize impact
- You will develop a deep understanding and empathy for our admin, teacher and parent customers and then use these personas to inform everything you do
- You understand the broader company strategy and define a vision, strategy and KPIs for your area that aligns with where the company is headed
- You will define measurable objectives and key results that will give your team focus, and ensure they are working on the right problems
- You will create and maintain a prioritized pipeline of opportunities, making sure the most important initiatives are properly scoped and resourced
- You will lead your product area with an outcome-oriented approach and build collaborative, healthy relationships that yield results
- You will apply deep critical thinking to thorny problems, ask the hard questions and translate insights that will enable your team to come up with the right solutions
- You will partner closely with cross-functional colleagues throughout the product development process to ensure maximal output
- You will leverage data and analysis to uncover new problems and identify opportunities to improve existing products
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
Articles
Leadership
Dave Vasen
(CEO)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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