Founding Head of Product, New Ventures

September 25, 2026

Other Jobs To Apply

About the position

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 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.

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.
Work directly with our CEO and executive team, set the vision and drive outcomes visible at the Board level.
Recruit, inspire, and grow the team around the ventures that take off.

Requirements

AI-native product leader and builder who combines world-class product taste, deep customer empathy, and high standards with the drive to start something new.
Ability to create clarity in ambiguous spaces, turn a blank page into a real business, and lead by example in how modern products get built.
Focus on customer and business impact.
Practitioner-builder who uses AI and modern tooling in their own work to build, prototype, and learn.
A record of building products customers love.
Experience taking something from 0 to 1.
Experience owning the whole business, including value, pricing, and economics.
Applied AI in your own work.
Strong communication and presence; ability to set a vision, align an executive team and board, and inspire builders.

Nice-to-haves

Multidisciplinary builder who moves across product, design, engineering, and data, and uses AI to go deeper in each.
Thrives in ambiguity, making confident calls when there is no playbook and no data.
Thinks like an owner of the whole business, from the customer problem to the path to revenue.

Benefits

Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Back to blog

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...