Founding Head of Product, New Ventures

Role Description

Brightwheel sits at the center of early education, trusted by tens of thousands of schools and millions of families. That trust, our distribution, and a profitable core are a foundation most new ventures never get to start with. The opportunity now is to build what comes next: new products alongside our core platform, new markets and customer segments, and entirely new businesses that serve families and educators in ways we have not reached yet.

You will lead that work. You will take new ventures from the first idea to product-market fit and beyond, building with your own hands and with AI, and proving both the product and the business behind it.

• Start and own new ventures end to end, from the first idea to product-market fit and into scale.
• Discover what customers truly need, build the first version, and get it in front of real people quickly.
• Prove the business behind each bet: the value to customers, the model, and the economics that make it worth growing.
• Build hands-on, using AI and modern tooling to prototype, learn, and raise what a small, focused team can accomplish.
• Work directly with our CEO and executive team, set the vision and drive outcomes visible at the Board level.
• Recruit, inspire, and grow the team around the ventures that take off.

Qualifications

• A record of building products customers love.
• Experience taking something from 0 to 1.
• Ownership of the whole business.
• Applied AI in your own work.
• Communication and presence.

Requirements

• You are an AI-native product leader and builder who combines world-class product taste, deep customer empathy, and high standards with the drive to start something new.
• You care deeply about the experience you put in front of families and educators, and you move with the urgency and ownership of a founder.
• You are focused on customer and business impact.
• You are a practitioner-builder who uses AI and modern tooling in your own work.

Benefits

• Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.
• Equal opportunity employer.