Director of HRBPs & People Programs, Brightwheel
$147-217k
+ Equity
More information about location
Online platform for early education management
Open for applications
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$147-217k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- What You've Done:
- Built and scaled high-performing and engaged teams; led effectively through periods of high growth and change
- Designed and scaled impactful programs (0→1 + enhancing/scaling)
- Served as a trusted partner to senior leaders, bringing an ownership mindset, sound judgment, and a data-driven approach to decision-making and execution
- Leveraged AI to increase team efficiency and deepen impact
- Embodied brightwheel’s leadership principles in how you operate
What the job involves
- As Director of HRBPs and People Programs, you will lead our HRBP function and drive initiatives that make brightwheel a great place to work
- You are motivated by creating a culture that attracts, retains and develops top talent, holds a high bar and celebrates extraordinary results, and fosters strong ownership and impact - all in service of our customers and mission
- You are an owner and driver of people and business outcomes, aligning people initiatives directly to business impact
- You are a builder and problem solver with a strong nose for impact - knowing what will move the needle, when to be scrappy, and when to build systematically. You lead with clarity and care through growth and change
- Lead a high-performing and engaged HRBP team: Hire, develop, and retain a talented team of HRBPs, and enable the team to focus in the highest-value areas for the business
- Design and scale high-impact programs and initiatives, e.g., talent engagement, growth and development, talent planning and performance cadences
- Partner with our leadership team: Shape talent strategies and practices that support business objectives and drive organizational success
- Leverage AI to increase efficiency and impact: Use AI to reduce manual work and scale People team support to our employees and the business
- Make data-driven decisions, applying people metrics (e.g., engagement data, attrition trends, other key talent metrics) to inform priorities and decision-making
- Scale internationally: Adapt our model to support a growing team in the US and internationally
- Accelerate strategic initiatives: Lead and/or support other strategic initiatives (e.g., change management, remote culture & engagement, total rewards strategy)
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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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