Chief Learning Officer

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At Bezos Academy, we believe all children deserve the great start that excellent early education provides, including in under-resourced communities. Our mission is to nurture the potential in every child to become a creative leader, original thinker, and lifelong learner by inventing the solutions needed to scale early childhood education.

We are a unique organization that operates a multi-state network of tuition-free, Montessori-inspired preschools in under-resourced communities while also investing in creating tools, products, technology, and other solutions designed to reach children well beyond the walls of our schools. We aspire to achieve a profound, large-scale impact on children ages zero to five.

About This Role

We seek an innovative educational leader with the drive to break barriers, question the status quo, and support both the school and the product/scalable solutions arms of our organization to provide early childhood educational experiences that leave measurable lifelong impacts on children. As the Chief Learning Officer at Bezos Academy, you will lead an enterprise-wide, multi-disciplinary team which includes curriculum, instructional excellence, special education, continuous improvement, and impact evaluation, all focused on child learning outcomes.

Reporting directly to the President, you will serve as a key member of the senior executive team. In this position, you will ensure every Bezos Academy preschool delivers on our Montessori-inspired curriculum for all learners, including multi-lingual learners and children with special needs. You will champion a culture of continuous improvement, using child outcomes data to validate our curriculum, instructional practices, and approach to child support and interventions.

Beyond our schools, you will serve as an educational expert and advisor, ensuring that products and solutions we deliver are developmentally appropriate, informed by child development research and best practices in early childhood education. You will work with product and technology teams to integrate cutting-edge learning science into tools and solutions under development.

Throughout your career, you have led, innovated, and delivered impressive results in a variety of sectors and situations, demonstrating your versatility and adaptability. You are an experienced leader of teams, with proven experience leading teams through change. You thrive in a start-up environment and can own both the strategic and tactical components needed to deliver results for children.

LOCATION

• Seattle, WA
• Relocation support is available for those willing to relocate to Seattle, WA

Compensation And Benefits

• This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, exempt (salaried) position.
• The full salary range for this position in Seattle, Washington is $271,000 - $462,000 per year.
• This role includes 15 paid days of vacation, 4 days of paid personal time off, 7 paid days of sick (care) time, 9 paid holidays, 5 paid days off for an organization-wide winter break, and additional time off if required by applicable law.
• Benefits for this role include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution match, paid parental leave, an employer-matched flexible spending account for dependent care, and more.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Fifteen or more years of relevant experience, including at least ten years of managing interdisciplinary teams
• Track record of hiring, managing, and developing diverse, geographically-distributed, high performing teams to deliver meaningful and measurable outcomes for children
• Proven ability to use data to drive significant improvements and implement effective solutions and programs that benefit children
• Expertise in child development, curriculum, and evidence-based instructional best practices that support all learners, including multi-language learners and children with special needs
• Exceptional analytical skills, including the ability to identify and solve ambiguous and complex problems, prioritizing actions that matter
• Fluency in an array of…