Data Lead, Wonderschool
5+ days a week in office (Rincon Hill, San Francisco)
Marketplace for child care
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Marketplace for child care
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
5+ days a week in office (Rincon Hill, San Francisco)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To ensure every child has access to early education that helps them realize their potential.
Role
Who you are
- You have been the first or early data hire at a startup and you have also shipped data work in a regulated environment, govtech, healthtech, or fintech, where governance, masking, and audit trails are table stakes
- You are as comfortable writing a dbt model as you are working through a data governance agreement with a state counterpart
- You have real scar tissue from entity resolution and dedup work
- You already use AI agents as a daily part of how you work, you understand what makes data legible to an LLM, and you figure things out independently
- You are happiest as a team of one or two and would rather automate a task than hire around it
- You want to build the system, not inherit one
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Data Lead to build the data foundation the whole company runs on: our commercial product, our government platform, and the AI agents that coach and support providers at scale
- This is a deeply hands-on role
- You will write SQL, ship models, load data, and debug pipelines yourself every day
- You will own two things that are really one problem: a single, trusted model of our providers, children, and families, and the delivery of state-mandated data work (Data Hub integration, legacy migration, identity resolution) for our government partners
- You will use AI agents heavily to do this work
- We run Claude Code, Hermes, and OpenClaw across the company, and we expect you to multiply your output with them
- We stay small on purpose and hire only when the work demands it
- Get this right and every agent, dashboard, and coaching interaction gets smarter
- This role reports directly to the CEO
- Build the canonical data model for providers, sites, children, and families across BigQuery, HubSpot, Stripe, and our product databases. One ID, one definition, one source of truth
- Structure our data so AI agents can read it and act on it: entity tables, snapshots, and pre-computed briefings that power provider coaching at scale
- Own data delivery for our state government platform: bi-directional Data Hub sync, historical licensing data migration, staging-to-prod loads, validation, and governance sign-off
- Lead identity resolution and deduplication across legacy state systems so every provider and child has one accurate record
- Define and document the metrics the business runs on, from "active provider" to churn risk, and make them self-serve for operations and provider success teams
- Set the data quality bar: monitoring, alerting, lineage, and handling of sensitive data in line with government agreements
- Use agents to automate your own workflows first, then help other teams do the same with their data questions
- What Success Looks Like:
- State data loads pass validation and acceptance without heroics
- Zero duplicate-provider incidents across our systems and the state's
- Anyone in the company can answer "how is this provider doing" in one query, and so can an agent
- Agents deliver accurate, personalized coaching to a pilot cohort of providers, validated by our provider success team
- Metrics stop being debated in meetings because definitions are documented and trusted
Our take
Wonderschool is a digital platform that enables parents and families to identify and connect with programs and preschools for infants and toddlers. The app has a huge database of potential providers, and uses intelligent software to identify the best child care and microschools for children.
This is an important service, as there are problems at both ends of the pipeline. Educators and carers are often paid insufficiently, while many parents struggle to find suitable education programs for their children. Wonderschool promises to solve those problems, while also providing a bespoke service that ensures that children get the care that they really require.
The childcare management platform has been instrumental in improving the quality and accessibility of care to children, as well as increasing the salaries of childcare professionals. It is fast-growing and can expect to continue this way following funding and partnerships.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Aug 2018
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO: 10 paid holidays, one week company winter break between Christmas and New Years and quarterly mental health refresh days
- Wellness: Monthly gym membership stipend
- Remote: Hybrid work environment and stipend for new employees to set-up your home office and a monthly wifi stipend
- Health: Up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents
- Parental leave: Parental leave for employees after 6 months of employment
- Autonomy: We prioritize health and wellness to ensure employees can produce their best work while achieving their personal and professional goals
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Bennett
(CEO)Earned a BSc in Economics from UPenn Wharton School. Private Equity Associate at Heitman. Co-founder and CEO of Soldsie. Co-founded Wonderschool in 2016.
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