Head of Legal, Brightwheel

$153-235k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Brightwheel

Online platform for early education management

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Brightwheel

Online platform for early education management

201-500 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

Be an early applicant

$153-235k

+ Equity

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

  • Brightwheel is looking for a Head of Legal to join our team
  • JD from an ABA-accredited law school
  • 7+ years of corporate law experience
  • Active bar membership with a preference to register as in-house counsel in California

Desirable

  • In-house counsel experience (ideally in tech)
  • Experience working for a top-tier law firm
  • Experience representing mature private companies
  • Experience with securities law compliance
  • Experience with complex corporate structures and transactions

What the job involves

  • As the founding member of the Legal team, you will work cross functionally to build trusted advisor relationships with our executive leadership team, department leaders and internal teams
  • You will create, improve and streamline legal processes that will serve as the foundation for the future of this team
  • You will work cross functionally with business teams across the company to analyze legal risks and devise creative and efficient solutions
  • You will build trusted relationships with all internal teams and create and/or improve internal processes to help both the legal function as well as the business generally streamline, simplify and efficiently execute agreements
  • You will engage in contract review and negotiation while supporting the creation and expansion of contract templates and terms of use to reflect new and existing products and services
  • You will proactively identify emerging legal and regulatory risks for the business team; support company compliance and the delivery of risk-adjusted advice on pertinent legal matters viewed through business lens
  • You will remain up-to-date on relevant product and AI space to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound marketing compliance advice
  • You will manage corporate governance matters
  • You will manage stock financings and administer equity incentive plans

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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Insights

Top investors

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

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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