Job Description

Who You Are:

  • Driven by outcomes: You care about helping centers stay full and save hours every week.
  • Strategic and prolific: You bridge executive strategy and deep implementation.
  • Decisive on build vs. buy: You have sharp judgment on when to leverage off-the-shelf models.

What You’ll Do:

  • Own outcomes end-to-end: Take responsibility for turning the biggest opportunities into shipped capabilities.
  • Define the AI technical direction: Translate customer problems into a practical strategy.
  • Make build-versus-buy decisions: Choose when to partner on models and tooling versus when to build differentiated capabilities.

What You’ve Done:

  • Foundational AI Depth: You possess deep intuition for why models fail; gained from experience that predates the LLM boom.
  • 10+ Years of Engineering Excellence: You have end-to-end ownership of large, business-critical systems.
  • Strategic Architecture: Experience formulating technical strategy at the organization or department level.

About Brightwheel

Brightwheel's vision is high-quality early education for every child. They directly support teachers, engage parents, and enable small businesses in the $175 billion early education industry; they are the most loved technology brand in early education, trusted by tens of thousands of providers and millions of educators and families.

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