Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Brightwheel
$100-150k
Offers Equity
Online platform for early education management
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Online platform for early education management
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-150k
Offers 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
- Brightwheel is seeking an exceptional Senior Human Resources Business Partner to drive department-level people strategy and serve as a trusted advisor across multiple teams
- The right candidate can transition seamlessly from 1:1 coaching and employee relations to designing big picture structures and strategies
- You believe that candor is kindness; you demonstrate empathy for all team members while balancing company goals
- You are an AI-fluent operator who actively leverages AI tools to scale your impact, and you are energized by mentoring and developing other HRBPs and People team members
- You are excited to collaboratively identify opportunities to enable high performance and help brightwheel fulfill its mission to transform early childhood education
- Proven experience in a business partner role in a fast-growth environment
- Track record of developing peers and junior team members; comfortable serving as a coach and capability multiplier on a People team, not just an individual contributor
- Ability to proactively build relationships, offer expert insight, and drive impact with your business partners; you are confident and comfortable working with senior leaders and demonstrate the ability to challenge or dissent while maintaining a strong and productive relationship
- Ability to navigate challenging employee situations and conversations with impeccable judgment; strong experience and pattern recognition in handling a wide range of HR questions and interpersonal situations
- High empathy approach coupled with communication that is clear and candid, driving the right outcomes for employees and the business
- Top-notch critical thinking and root cause problem solving abilities; the ability to diagnose a cultural or management enablement issue and drive a strategy to make improvements
- Ability to independently prioritize in a fast-paced environment and manage complex process and projects end-to-end
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; able to write or edit critical documents from performance plans to annual reviews to employee policies and communications
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) in day-to-day work to draft, analyze, synthesize, and accelerate output; bias toward integrating AI into core HR workflows rather than treating it as a side experiment
What the job involves
- Build, scale and improve employee-facing processes that help teams thrive: You'll work on projects focused on performance management, annual reviews, employee engagement, career pathing and development, workforce planning, feedback and reviews, and compensation
- Mentor and develop the HRBP team: Serve as a thought partner and coach to other HRBPs; share frameworks, advise on complex ER situations, and actively raise the capability of the team around you
- Support talent development & career pathways: You'll work on processes like talent planning, performance calibrations, compensation to ensure we are growing and rewarding our best talent competitively
- Coach and develop managers: Proactively partner with your managers to maintain a high-performance culture, hold their teams accountable, and operate with inclusivity
- Be a voice for our employees: Advise and support managers and team members through a wide variety of complex employee relations situations; ensure that all voices and perspectives are heard
- Leverage AI to scale your impact: Use AI tools to accelerate your work across employee relations documentation, policy drafting, manager coaching prep, engagement survey analysis, and workforce planning; identify and build AI-enabled workflows that raise the bar for the broader People team
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 began their career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. They then worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles they founded Brightwheel in 2014, serving as the CEO since.
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