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Staff Product Manager

Brightwheel
📍 Anywhere in the World 💰 🕑 Any timezone
Full-time Senior Engineering Full-Stack Programming

Job Description

Headquarters: United States

Our Mission and Opportunity

Early education is one of the most important determinants of childhood outcomes, a critical support for working families, and a $175B market that remains underserved by modern technology. Brightwheel is the largest, fastest growing, and most loved platform in early ed, trusted by millions of educators and families every day. We are a three-time Cloud 100 company , backed by top investors including Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Notable Capital, and Mark Cuban.

Our Team

Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a distributed team with remote employees across every US time zone, as well as select offices in the US and internationally.

Who You Are

You’re an AI-native, experienced product manager who thrives in high-ownership environments and knows what it means to truly own a core product area. You’re energized by the full spectrum of the job - from iterating on live features to investing in greenfield 0→1 bets - and you have the judgment to know when to pursue each. You’re comfortable in ambiguity, decisive under pressure, and relentless about customer impact.

You are:

- A product owner who has driven a core product area end-to-end - setting strategy and goals, building the roadmap, and delivering measurable outcomes

- Sharp on prioritization - you can look at a universe of possible bets and quickly identify what’s worth pursuing, what to cut, and why

- Skilled at right-sizing - you set appetite and scope work accordingly, balancing incremental improvements with bigger swings

- Impact and customer-obsessed - you keep the customer and business at the forefront, and know how to cut through the noise to focus on what truly matters to drive value

- AI-native in how you work - you use AI tools daily to move faster, think more clearly, and raise your own ceiling as a PM

- A strong cross-functional...