Senior Product Manager
Our Mission and Opportunity
Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has a lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child — by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.
Our Team
We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban.
We believe that everyone—from our employees to the students, teachers, and administrators we serve— should be given the opportunity to learn and thrive, whatever their background may be. We celebrate diversity in all forms because it allows our team and the communities we serve to reach their full potential and do their best work.
Who You Are
Brightwheel’s mission is a high-quality early childhood education for every child — research shows that early childhood education is one of the single biggest levers we have for impacting the long-term outcomes of a person’s life, both educational attainment and social development. Brightwheel is the leader in partnering with hundreds of thousands of early childhood institutions to make these goals a reality for every child, and we accomplish this through our core product.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to oversee a business-critical area of brightwheel’s core product. In this role, you’ll own and develop product strategy for your area and work to develop simple, intuitive solutions based on deep customer understanding and empathy. Brightwheel is in a period of unique growth — we have an incredible opportunity to scale our impact, and we need your critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and product management skills, combined with your leadership, personal drive, and results-oriented mentality, to be successful.
We take an iterative approach to product development and hold a high bar for quality — we will look to you to bring impactful experiences to our customers quickly. To be successful, you will work closely with partners across various functions, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and support.
What you'll do:
- Lead your product area with a fast-paced, iterative, outcome-oriented approach; build collaborative, healthy relationships that yield results
- Define a strategy for your product area with guidance from your manager that results in meaningful customer and business impact
- Drive impactful product launches through close partnership with cross-functional colleagues throughout the product development process
- Define measurable objectives and key results that give your team focus and ensure they are working on the right problems
- Develop a deep understanding and empathy for our admin, teacher, and guardian customers
- 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
- Leverage data and analysis to uncover new problems and identify opportunities to improve existing products
- Create and maintain a prioritized pipeline of opportunities, making sure the most important initiatives are appropriately scoped and resourced
Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities:
- 3+ years of Product Management experience or the equivalent — creating, launching, and iterating on consumer-facing products
- A strong track record of scoping, launching, and growing high-impact products
- Experience leading healthy and collaborative cross-functional product teams
- Deep user empathy and experience, bringing together user research, insights & data
- Proven ability to break down problems and translate them into clear, focused solutions
- Demonstrated ability to roll up your sleeves (no task too big or too small!) and move quickly to achieve outcomes
- Strong team player: support and collaborate with ease across engineering, design, and other functions
- A passion and drive for improving the world through education and technology
- Bonus: experience building B2B SaaS products
$97,000 - $160,000 a year
Brightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Our benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, a flexible paid time off policy, a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and a Learning & Development stipend.
For cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Multiple factors determine final offer amounts, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise. If you have questions about the compensation band for your region, please ask your recruiter.
Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.