Our Mission and Opportunity
Early childhood education is a major predictor of long‑term success, essential for working families, and a powerful driver of social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to make high‑quality early education accessible to every child by giving teachers more meaningful time with students, helping parents stay engaged in their children’s development, and supporting the small businesses that power the $175 billion early education sector. Brightwheel is the most trusted technology brand in early education worldwide, used by thousands of educators and millions of families.

Our Team
We operate fully remotely with employees across all U.S. time zones. Our team is passionate, skilled, and focused on serving customers. Our top‑tier investors include Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban.
We believe everyone—our employees and the students, teachers, and administrators we support—deserves the opportunity to grow and flourish, regardless of background. We embrace diversity in all its forms because it strengthens our team and the communities we work with. Our daily decisions and operations reflect our Leadership Principles.

Who You Are
Education products are essential to brightwheel’s future as we work to deliver tools that free up time for schools, teachers, and families so they can focus on delivering excellent early education. The Director of Supply Chain & Operations ensures we can produce efficiently and meet customer needs. This role oversees procurement, product creation, and fulfillment, and requires strong experience in operations and supply chain management.

What You’ll Do
• Run and scale operations: Oversee operational quality and performance, develop plans aligned with company goals, and lead strategic initiatives to expand production capacity.
• Support education business growth: Collaborate with Design, Marketing, Finance, and Digital Product teams to drive key initiatives and deliver high‑impact outcomes.
• Improve current operations: Establish and evaluate near‑term and long‑term goals, aligning operations with business growth.
• Implement process enhancements: Lead operational and supply chain process changes to help the business achieve its objectives.
• Build a strong organization: Recruit top talent and mentor emerging leaders.

Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities
• 10+ years of senior leadership experience in supply chain or operations
• Direct management background in manufacturing, production, distribution, or logistics, ideally in a high‑growth setting
• Demonstrated ability to design and manage operations for maximum efficiency and output
• Experience creating budgets and business plans
• Ability to introduce processes that expand capacity and efficiency in a growing business
• Proven success leading operations in high‑growth environments
• Experience measuring supply chain performance using data and metrics

$135,000 – $215,000 per year
Brightwheel is dedicated to pay equity and provides a competitive compensation package that includes salary, equity, and benefits. Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, generous paid parental leave, flexible PTO, monthly wellness and productivity stipends, and a Learning & Development stipend.

Cash compensation ranges are standardized by role, level, and location, and benchmarked against peer companies at a similar growth stage. Final offers depend on factors such as location, experience, and expertise. If you have compensation questions for your area, please ask your recruiter.

Brightwheel is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.