Full-Time

Head of AI Agent Systems

Wonderschool

Wonderschool

51-200 employees

Platform connecting parents to licensed childcare

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Required Skills
LLM
DevOps

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Requirements
  • Strong engineering background with experience building and shipping production systems
  • Experience working with AI systems, LLMs, or automation in a real environment
  • Experience debugging complex systems and improving reliability
  • Ability to work directly in code and system architecture
  • Experience building internal tools or developer systems is strongly preferred
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment
Responsibilities
  • Drive Revenue Through Agent Systems: Design and deploy agent-driven workflows that directly impact revenue generation
  • Drive Revenue Through Agent Systems: Improve conversion, onboarding speed, and provider revenue through automation
  • Drive Revenue Through Agent Systems: Partner with product and go-to-market to identify high-leverage revenue opportunities and implement them through agent systems
  • Drive Revenue Through Agent Systems: Use agents to accelerate experimentation on pricing, enrollment, and growth features
  • Drive Revenue Through Agent Systems: Tie agent performance to business outcomes such as revenue growth, conversion rates, and usage
  • Own Agent System Architecture and Performance: Own the architecture of the multi-agent system including OpenClaw, Claude Code, GBrain, and internal tooling
  • Own Agent System Architecture and Performance: Improve agent output quality so outputs are usable without heavy human correction
  • Own Agent System Architecture and Performance: Identify and fix system-level issues including poor outputs, coordination failures, memory loss, and context limitations
  • Own Agent System Architecture and Performance: Design evaluation systems to measure success rates, failure modes, and reliability
  • Build a Reliable Multi-Agent Execution System: Redesign agent workflows so core processes execute reliably end-to-end
  • Build a Reliable Multi-Agent Execution System: Ensure product development workflows from requirements through deploy can run through agents
  • Build a Reliable Multi-Agent Execution System: Improve agent-to-agent coordination so tasks are completed without manual intervention
  • Build a Reliable Multi-Agent Execution System: Introduce validation layers, retry logic, and clear ownership across workflows
  • Drive Adoption Across the Company: Enable engineering, product, design, go-to-market, and operations teams to use agents in their daily workflows
  • Drive Adoption Across the Company: Define and enforce standards for how work is done using agents
  • Drive Adoption Across the Company: Reduce reliance on manual processes by shifting execution to agent systems
  • Drive Adoption Across the Company: Ensure systems are usable by non-engineers
  • Build Measurement and Feedback Loops: Implement system-wide reporting on agent performance
  • Build Measurement and Feedback Loops: Track success rates, failure types, task completion, and human intervention
  • Build Measurement and Feedback Loops: Use this data to continuously improve system performance
  • Build Measurement and Feedback Loops: Create a system that improves over time rather than degrading
  • Lead and Scale the Team: Lead a small team of 2-3 engineers including DevOps
  • Lead and Scale the Team: Hire and develop engineers who can build and operate agent systems
  • Lead and Scale the Team: Maintain a high performance bar and clear accountability
  • Lead and Scale the Team: Balance hands-on work with team leadership
  • Drive Business Impact: Increase provider revenue and platform usage through better systems
  • Drive Business Impact: Improve speed of shipping features tied to revenue and growth
  • Drive Business Impact: Automate workflows that reduce cost and increase margins
  • Drive Business Impact: Support fraud detection and compliance systems that protect revenue and improve program integrity
  • What Success Looks Like (6-12 months): Agents produce high-quality outputs with minimal human correction
  • What Success Looks Like (6-12 months): All agents are tracked and measurable across success rate, failure modes, and usage
  • What Success Looks Like (6-12 months): Teams across engineering, product, and operations use agents in daily workflows
  • What Success Looks Like (6-12 months): Core workflows run reliably through agent systems
  • What Success Looks Like (6-12 months): Agent systems are directly tied to measurable revenue outcomes including increased conversion, faster onboarding, and higher revenue per provider
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building or working with multi-agent systems
  • Experience with workflow automation or internal platforms
  • Experience working with regulated systems or compliance-heavy environments
  • Background as a founder or early engineer at a startup

Wonderschool runs a platform that connects parents with preschools, daycares, and in-home childcare while helping individuals or small businesses start or grow their own programs. It recruits and trains caregivers through a 12-week program and helps them obtain licensing and meet health and safety rules, then providers join the platform by subscribing to a set of tools. The tools include automated billing, a parent communication portal, and ongoing professional development through peer groups and mentorship. Unlike others, Wonderschool combines caregiver training and licensing support with a marketplace and business-management tools to help providers operate smoothly, while giving parents reliable care options; its goal is to streamline childcare operations, raise quality and consistency, and expand access to trusted early education.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$49.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • Mississippi and New Mexico partnerships expand recruiting, stipends, and statewide provider pipelines in 2026.
  • More than a dozen states already use Wonderschool, including Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and West Virginia.
  • Oversight targets subsidy fraud and payment integrity, a budget priority for agencies this year.

What critics are saying

  • Public-sector sales depend on state budgets and procurement cycles; contract delays stall revenue.
  • AI fraud scoring invites disputes when agencies flag providers, delaying adoption and renewals.
  • If states standardize on Procare or Brightwheel, Wonderschool loses its wedge and collapses.

What makes Wonderschool unique

  • Wonderschool spans provider software, licensing support, and state oversight across 46 states.
  • Its January 2026 Oversight platform centralizes subsidy, attendance, billing, and licensing data.
  • EarlyDay acquisition adds AI staffing marketplace, pairing recruiting with substitute-teacher infrastructure.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Phone/Internet Stipend

Parental Leave

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-2%
WonderSchool
Jan 12th, 2026
Wonderschool Launches New Oversight Platform to Help States Detect Child Care Fraud and Strengthen Payment Integrity

Wonderschool launches new oversight platform to help states detect child care fraud and strengthen payment integrity. Wonderschool The new platform builds on the company's history of developing technology to help ensure continuity of care and funding. SAN FRANCISCO, January 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Wonderschool, the nation's leading provider of technology to support child care providers and states, today announced the launch of Wonderschool Oversight(TM) to help agencies detect patterns of child care subsidy fraud early, conduct timely audits, and strengthen payment integrity without disrupting access to care for families. Drawing on the company's existing partnerships with more than a dozen states, including Florida, New Mexico, Michigan, Missouri, and West Virginia, Wonderschool Oversight was designed to boost transparency, strengthen accountability, and protect public dollars in order to ensure stability for families and providers. "The child care providers that American families rely on are, themselves, often reliant on manual, paper-intensive processes that can exacerbate the oversight challenge for state and federal funders," said Chris Bennett, CEO of Wonderschool. "Our work with both states and high-quality providers puts us in a unique position to create tools that streamline provider operations while giving agencies visibility into the administration of critical public benefits for children." Wonderschool Oversight enables state agencies edit agencies to centralize often fragmented program data to stand-up continuous, risk-based scoring that draws upon Wonderschool's advanced analytics and AI models. By bringing together enrollment, attendance, billing, and licensing data in a unified view, the platform can surface patterns that warrant review. Importantly, its explainable insights allow teams to understand why activity was flagged and act with confidence, preserving professional judgment while avoiding undue burden on providers. States can deploy Wonderschool Oversight as a standalone solution that integrates with existing subsidy management, licensing systems, and third-party child care management systems (CCMS), allowing agencies to implement oversight capabilities quickly and scale as needs evolve. Wonderschool Oversight can also be paired with any combination of Wonderschool's CCMS, subsidy management and licensing management solutions to further strengthen governance and transparency. These solutions are already widely used by many states to support the expansion of child care programs, streamline administration, and spot potential misuse or fraud early. To learn more about Wonderschool Oversight, visit https://www.wonderschool.com/corp/childcare-oversight About Wonderschool. Wonderschool's comprehensive technology and business support platform is designed to address every aspect of the child care and early learning ecosystem. Wonderschool's vision is to ensure that quality early care and education are conveniently accessible to every child within a 5-minute radius of their home. As leaders in collaborating with governments and employers, Wonderschool spearheads initiatives to scale and enhance child care access for every community across the country. Learn more at www.wonderschool.com.

TechCrunch
Mar 28th, 2024
Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay

Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay.

PR Newswire
Mar 28th, 2024
Wonderschool Acquires EarlyDay to Help Solve Staffing Shortages For Child Care Businesses Through AI

/PRNewswire/ -- Wonderschool, the innovative child care platform, today announced the acquisition of EarlyDay, a VC-backed early childhood career marketplace,...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Mar 5th, 2024
SEC FORM D

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Las Cruces Sun-News
Feb 20th, 2024
Wonderschool partners with New Mexico Early Childhood Education Department for childcare training

Wonderschool partners with New Mexico Early Childhood Education Department for childcare training.