Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Posted on 4/22/2025

Wonderschool

Wonderschool

51-200 employees

Platform connecting parents to licensed childcare

Compensation Overview

$160k - $185k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

On-site required 3 days per week in SF office.

Category
Product (1)
Requirements
  • 5-7 years of experience in a product management role working on SaaS and/or marketplaces products
  • Former software development experience
  • Ability to set clear strategy, priorities, and goals and use those to drive execution across product development teams
  • Experience using data and experimentation to drive rapid learnings and make smart product decisions
  • Ability to communicate with and lead initiatives across internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization
  • Ability to work independently and prioritize competing initiatives
  • Experience following Agile development framework
  • We are in our SF office 3 days a week
Responsibilities
  • Own the vision, strategy, and goals.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, design, and other stakeholders to build a clear execution plan.
  • Define detailed requirements (with use cases / flows) for engineering and design
  • Partner with product managers and designers to ensure a consistent experience for users across our suite of products
  • Be an expert in the customer’s needs and become the internal evangelist for them
  • Establish, track, and move key success metrics
Desired Qualifications
  • Deeply data and experimentation driven with experience building and optimizing growth funnels
  • Previous experience working in a fast paced, small team environment
  • Prior experience launching 0 to 1 products
  • Prior startup experience

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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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Acquired EarlyDay to solve staffing shortages with AI-driven career marketplace.
  • Secured $25M Series B from Goldman Sachs and a16z for expansion.
  • Launched free Wonderschool Academy in New Mexico with stipends.

What critics are saying

  • Procare Solutions dominates with 45,000 clients, eroding subscription revenue.
  • Brightwheel's free app diverts parents, undercutting paid provider tools.
  • AB 1123 reforms halt 30% of California apartment/condo programs by January 2026.

What makes Wonderschool unique

  • Wonderschool trains unlicensed educators via 12-week program for home-based preschools.
  • Platform integrates licensing, billing, and parent marketplace in one dashboard.
  • Wonderschool Oversight uses AI to detect subsidy fraud for states like Florida.

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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

0%

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,...

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.

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