Founding Head of Product, New Ventures

Brightwheel is the largest, fastest-growing, and most loved platform in early education, trusted by millions of educators and families. We are a three-time Cloud 100 company, backed by top investors including Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Notable Capital, and Mark Cuban.

About the role

Brightwheel sits at the center of early education, trusted by tens of thousands of schools and millions of families. The opportunity 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, taking new ventures from the first idea to product-market fit and beyond. You will build with your own hands using AI and modern tooling, proving both the product and the business behind it. You will work directly with our CEO and executive team, set the vision, and drive outcomes visible at the Board level.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Recruit, inspire, and grow the team around the ventures that take off.

Requirements

• A record of building products customers love, with the product taste and judgment to know what to build and what to leave out.
• Experience taking something from 0 to 1, ideally to real traction, as a founder or early builder who wore every hat.
• Ownership of the whole business, including value, pricing, and economics that turn an idea into something worth scaling.
• Applied AI in your own work to build and ship faster, and to go deeper across disciplines.
• Strong communication and presence to set a vision, align an executive team and board, and inspire builders.

What sets you apart

• You are a multidisciplinary builder who moves across product, design, engineering, and data, using AI to go deeper in each.
• You thrive in ambiguity, making confident calls when there is no playbook or data, and following the data the moment it exists.
• You think like an owner of the whole business, from the customer problem to the path to revenue, and bring an executive team and board along with a clear, compelling vision.

Pay

Compensation range: $206,000 – $270,000