Director, Analytics

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

Brightwheel is seeking a results-oriented Director of Analytics to lead our central analytics function and scale its impact across the business. This high-visibility role offers the opportunity to shape how data informs decisions and accelerates growth across all of brightwheel’s teams, with leverage to deliver company-changing impact.

You are focused on delivering business value, whether directly through your team, your stakeholders, or your analysis. You think clearly and communicate the same way. You know how to balance strategy and tactics, and solve for one by using the other, identifying opportunities even inside problems. You are an excellent communicator, able to manage both ICs on your team and c-suite interactions one after the other. You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and excel at bringing structure, clarity, and insight to complexity. You take ownership beyond your remit and use data to drive progress across the business. You're excited to build an AI-native future for analytics, not just adapt to it.

What You’ll Do

• Lead our established, high-performing central analytics function, scaling its impact across brightwheel’s strategic and operational priorities.

• Deliver impactful, company-wide capabilities that improve business outcomes and drive key decisions, even while supporting our businesses’ operating cadence.

• Pioneer an AI-native analytics approach, equipping analysts, engineers, and stakeholders with tools and systems that enable autonomy, efficiency, and innovation that was not possible just a few years ago.

• Navigate cross-functional priorities, support decentralized business needs, and balance centralized initiatives.

What You’ve Done

• Led analytics teams at the org or company level, supporting multiple stakeholders, ideally in high-growth environments.

• Built systems or processes that improved access to insights and enabled decentralized decision-making.

• Driven change in how analytics teams operate — whether via tooling, workflows, or mindset.

• Collaborated closely with executive leaders to shape strategy using data.

• Successfully define vision, build a plan, and deliver projects with broad business impact across multiple domains through your team and your stakeholders.

• Familiarity with modern data stacks, from data ingestion, through modeling and reporting and AI tools, and scalable analytics infrastructure (bonus if you’ve deployed them).

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.

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