Chief of Staff, Brightwheel
$153-244k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
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Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$153-244k
+ 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
- You are a strong problem solver and adaptable, with an ability to build trust and partnership at all levels of an organization
- You demonstrate the highest levels of ownership and show impressive grit in breaking through barriers
- You are a clear and effective communicator, both written and verbal
- You have a proven track record of success in difficult, highly ambiguous situations
- 7-10+ years of experience, across a combination of top-tier management consulting/banking and high growth tech environments. Operating experience strongly preferred
- Top notch critical thinking and analytical skills; can break down complex problems into discrete digestible pieces and drive effective solutions
- Can learn quickly; understand any challenge and immediately hone in on what matters most
- Can adapt quickly to a rapidly changing environment without being phased
- Very high EQ; able to read a room or an audience and adjust approach to be most effective
- Able to build deep levels of trust with senior leaders, external partners, and staff at all levels; not afraid to directly challenge on important issues; exceptional listening skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications with a crisp, concise and effective style
- Low ego with high degree of ownership; never says “that’s not my job”; resourceful and scrappy
- High degree of grit. Demonstrated ability to break down difficult barriers
- Ownership over professional development; highly receptive to feedback and eager to get better every day
- Exemplifies best practices in creating an equitable and inclusive work environment
- Operates with the highest levels of integrity
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Chief of Staff to join the Leadership team at brightwheel
- We are entering a new phase of growth as we massively expand our scale & reach in early education, and we need a talented partner to the CEO to help drive performance and execution across the company
- This program is based on Amazon’s TA (Technical Advisor) program in which the company’s strongest leaders have been paired with the CEO in order to serve as a formidable partner on the company’s top priorities
- You will own key executive-level meetings - CEO’s directs, senior leadership, and quarterly Board Meeting - along with helping drive the operating cadence for the company
- You act as a force multiplier for the entire executive team, driving meeting effectiveness and preparedness, ensuring follow-through, and improving how we make our most important decision
- You will own strategic projects aligned with the CEO’s top priorities, partnering with other senior leaders to deliver results for the business
- Through this, you will have full exposure to the inner workings of one of the highest growing SaaS companies in the world and have a tremendous impact on our future, as well as the lives of millions of children, families, and educators
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 at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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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