Headquarters
REMOTE, USA
Led by
WOMEN
Company size
1-10 EMPLOYEES
Industry
SOFTWARE & EDUCATION
Founded
2016
Website
Certifications: 1% for the Planet, Women-owned business (certification in process)
Open position: Product Designer
About BridgeCare
BridgeCare believes in making great technology publicly available, accessible, and easy to use.
We are a small, women-led, hardworking team of technologists who make the system of child care work. We believe every child should have access to excellent early childhood education, every person should be able to pursue purpose and enjoy family, and every provider should be valued as an educator. The BridgeCare team does this by providing a user-experience-driven technology suite designed to create a functional, effective early childhood education system.
BridgeCare’s software is a white-label data and case management system for government agencies in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) sector. It is made for organizations that support parents and ECCE providers, primarily licensed child care and public preschool programs.
BridgeCare's software is customized to meet the unique needs of the ECCE sector:
Increases family access to, and enrollment in, affordable child care
Supports child care providers with marketing programs, managing enrollment, and maintaining licensing status
Provides fully integrated government agency solutions to reduce administrative burdens
Gives real-time data insights for more effective policy and resource decision making
There has never been a more exciting time to get involved with the childcare industry. Sparked by the pandemic, the US is making significant systematic progress towards increased access to early childhood education and care. This sector received $50B in stimulus funding and is experiencing rapid innovation and progress.
Our Team
We are innovative, collaborative, and autonomous.
BridgeCare’s team is built on trust. We are a small team that works hard and relies on each other. We value autonomy and taking initiative, but we also believe in supporting one another, working together, and having a healthy work/life balance.
We offer flexibility and can generally support each individual’s needs and preferences around scheduling as long as there is clear, proactive communication and commitments are met. We pay a living wage with benefits that meet individual needs.
Diversity & Inclusion
BridgeCare believes that a company should represent the communities it serves. We are committed to building a diverse team to help us achieve our goal of expanding access to early child care and education.
Our Impact
BridgeCare is making excellent child care and early learning accessible and affordable to families.
Our team is committed to helping care and learning providers (who are disproportionately women of color) thrive. Our software streamlines child care and ECCE systems while providing data insights that help to make the case for greater and more effective investment into ECCE.
Working toward the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly established a collection of 17 interlinked impact goals designed to be “a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.”
BridgeCare is committed to working toward these 3 goals:
Our Core Values
Humility
First and foremost, the truly hard and important work in this sector is being done by caregivers and educators (our users). Next most important are the agencies and organizations (our clients) who provide them with direct support. We are but one piece of a complex system and it takes all players to make it work. Technology is important (critical even), but can do nothing alone. Our ability to have impact is directly dependent on the important work of our clients and users. We exist to serve them so they can get more work done and do it better.
Adaptability
Our team is willing to change course, to be wrong, and to tear it all down to rebuild better. We always put the best user experience and highest impact before our ego. Our software is configurable to adapt to our various clients' different needs and can grow and change with them over time.
Visionary
We are reshaping the way the child care and early learning sector operate by leveraging modern, advanced technology specifically built to address their most important needs and biggest challenges. We listen to our clients and all their stakeholders, and then we build what the system needs, not just what they ask for.
OPEN POSITION
Product Designer
Location: 100% Remote (must be in the United States)
Position: Full-time
Experience: Intermediate (2-5 years experience)
Pay range: $100,000 - $130,000 Annual Salary
Target start date: ASAP
Perks & benefits: Unlimited PTO, remote work, flexible scheduling, customized benefits to meet individual needs
What to expect
BridgeCare is a small but quickly growing technology company on a mission to reinvent the early child care and education ecosystem. The Product Designer is a newly created position, and you will be reporting directly to the Head of Product. As a small company, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with everyone, but will work most closely with the product, design, customer success, and engineering teams. As a member of the design team, you’ll be an independent contributor, bringing your own unique ideas to the table while playing an integral part in shaping the future of design at BridgeCare.
Primary duties & responsibilities
Think holistically about complex systems, empathize with users, and understand business goals
Work closely with Client Success Managers to gain insights from their interactions with clients
Conduct user research and lead discovery sessions
Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to understand user problems, present design solutions, and shape new features.
Create compelling and effective user experiences
Contribute to our visual design system and maintain its cohesion across BridgeCare’s portals
Execute at every stage of the design lifecycle from ideation to delivery
Become a product expert - get to know the ins and outs of the product
As the design team grows, be prepared to support, mentor and provide direct feedback to other designers to help them improve and develop new skills
Who we’re looking for
BridgeCare is looking for someone with a strong UI/UX background who has experience working within or has contributed to a design system. Creating a great user experience is essential, so we need someone who has a keen eye for design, has experience with product improvement, is a team player, and is very detail oriented. We are looking for proactive self-starters who can work independently and think about the product from the 30,000-foot view down to the pixel-level. The ideal candidate will have a creative, human-centered approach to design that’s inquisitive, strategic, and empathetic.
What we’re looking for
Skills & Knowledge:
Strong visual design skills - Understands layouts, typography, color theory and visual hierarchies
Attention to detail
Past experience developing a design system is highly desirable
Systems Thinking - You understand how your work connects to the larger system
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
Strong interpersonal and listening skills
Comfortable proactively learning and using new software
Traits & Attributes:
Collaboration – Working closely with the engineering team to ship features within constraints
Empathy – Having empathy for our users’ feedback even if it doesn’t align with your designs
Independence - Self-starter, able to work independently and autonomously
Curiosity - Asking how we can continually improve BridgeCare’s technology platform, and how can we improve the user experience
Creativity - Developing innovative approaches to creating a great user experience
Tools we use
Experience with these tools is not required, but comfort learning and using new software is very important.
Gsuite
Slack
Excel
Asana
Loom
Figma
Eligibility
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
BridgeCare is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. BridgeCare makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.