Chief of Staff, Brightwheel
$147-235k
Salary dependent on location
Online platform for early education management
Job no longer available
Online platform for early education management
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$147-235k
Salary dependent on location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience, ideally with generalist experience (management consulting, banking, etc) and high experience in a high growing tech environment. Previous 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
- Enable a highly effective and engaged executive and senior leadership team, via effective facilitation, decision-making, and follow through
- Drive highly effective executive and leadership team meetings, and other key meetings for the CEO
- Quarterback critical communications & messaging for the CEO, ranging from quarterly Board of Directors meeting preparation to monthly company All Hands
- Own strategic projects aligned with the CEO’s top priorities
- Serve as the ultimate utility player for leadership and be a 10x force multiplier
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. Brightwheel's 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. It was quick to adapt to school closures too by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. And on top of this, it also caters to childcare in lower-income areas with a freemium model. Making its a go-to platform for early education.
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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dave Vasen
(Founder & 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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