Staff Product Manager, Brightwheel
$148-218k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
Job no longer available
Online platform for early education management
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$148-218k
+ Equity
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
- You’re a strategic product manager who thrives at the intersection of data, design, and business impact. You love helping customers find value quickly and you’ve built product-led systems that drive measurable outcomes
- A systems thinker who has built and/or scaled onboarding, activation, or PLG funnels
- AI native - you bring best practices on increasing leverage, velocity, and learning using AI systems deeply and pervasively
- Comfortable with experimentation, conversion optimization, and defining success metrics
- An effective collaborator and executor across product, design, engineering, GTM, and leadership teams
- A data-informed decision-maker, fluent in funnel and data analysis
- A proactive operator who navigates fast-moving, ambiguous environments with ownership and clarity
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in SaaS
- Proven ownership of growth, onboarding, or activation funnels with measurable outcomes
- A strong track record of scoping, launching, and growing high-impact products
- Demonstrated ability to drive impact through prioritization and structured thinking, especially in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
- Deep comfort with product metrics, funnel analysis, and experimentation (SQL a plus)
- Collaborative and clear communicator who builds strong cross-functional partnerships
- Demonstrated ability to roll up your sleeves and move quickly to achieve outcomes
- Experience launching or optimizing AI-powered features (preferred)
What the job involves
- This is an individual contributor role with a hands on, high ownership scope across onboarding, activation, and attach
- Own and deliver key initiatives within brightwheel’s activation & expansion roadmap
- Define the end-to-end onboarding and growth experience for schools, leveraging AI and product-led growth (PLG) principles to accelerate time-to-value
- Communicate strategy, learning, and progress clearly with leadership and cross-functional partners to inform roadmap decisions
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, AI, and GTM to build and iterate on in-app experiences that deliver continuous customer value
- Identify and remove friction across activation and attach funnels, using data and customer feedback to prioritize high-impact improvements
- Design, run, and analyze investments to test hypotheses and impact critical metrics
- Define and report on success metrics (e.g., activation %, attach %, time-to-value, % of schools self-serve onboarding)
- Collaborate across PDE and GTM teams ensuring shared goals, feedback loops, and delivery against measurable outcomes
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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