Engineering Manager, Growth/Activation

Our Mission and Opportunity

Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is high quality early education for every child. We pursue this by directly supporting teachers in the classroom, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and enabling the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education industry. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education, trusted by tens of thousands of providers and millions of educators and families.

Our Team

Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Mark Cuban Notable Capital, and others.

Who You Are

Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our core app team, focusing on Growth and Activation functions, a major focus for brightwheel in 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for a product-minded leader who thrives in customer centric environments and is passionate about building high-performing teams. You balance technical depth with people management skills, ensuring your team can deliver scalable solutions while fostering a supportive, growth-oriented culture. If you enjoy collaborating closely with Product, managing project timelines, and rallying your team to deliver results, come say hello! 

What You’ll Do

• Lead our Growth and Activation pods. Both are full-stack teams of passionate, dedicated engineers to rapidly deliver projects while balancing quality.
• Partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver against pod goals and roadmaps
• Maintain accountability for the architecture, development, testing, and reliability of for featuresets within the pod’s ownership
• Develop and grow the team by mentoring and coaching engineers, as well as through performance management and hiring
• Drive process improvements to increase product velocity while simultaneously raising the bar for quality and operational excellence
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Brightwheel’s engineering management team

Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities

• You have 3+ years of experience managing a full-stack product engineering team of 4+ engineers, and have a track record of shipping critical customer-facing features. 
• Ideally, you are strong at project management and have experience managing multiple small teams or simultaneously managing multiple high priority work streams.
• You have experience delivering improvements via A/B testing and data-driven iteration and optimization.
• You have experience hiring engineers at various levels including Sr Engineers and above
• You have a pragmatic approach to developing and evolving right-sized processes that help teams operate effectively
• You have experience working with 3rd party vendors to deliver customer-facing solutions
• You have strong technical depth and can participate in, as well as influence, technical architecture and design discussions, especially as it pertains to scalability and reliability
• You work very well cross-functionally and are able to make hard decisions and trade-offs while incorporating a diversity of perspectives
• You’re an empathetic listener with strong verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and different levels within the company
• You encourage a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging

Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.