Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.

Kindercare has begun a bold transformational effort across our technology landscape and is searching for the right leader to drive our Enterprise Software Quality strategy. This leader will step into an already strong team, executing across a variety of technologies and shape the long-term vision. Key to establishing this vision will be partnership with Product and Project leaders to define quality needs and align to delivery timelines which best suit each situational need while tying back to a broader QA Enterprise strategy. The right candidate will strike a balance between quality and speed; helping our collaborators understand the choices and associated implications.

To meet the needs of their partners, this leader will also establish a vision and roadmap for the continued modernization of QA people, process and technology. Throughout the delivery of their vision, they will create and leverage a metric-based approach to measure their teams' progress and to demonstrate success for their collaborators.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Establishes strategy to meet business needs, drives alignment and delivers
• Influences at all levels of the organization on future QA strategy and roadmaps executing and tailoring service offerings and creating appropriate servicing and retention strategies for clients.
• Brings clarity to all collaborators, internal and external to their teams on strategy and execution, creating alignment and efficiency in delivery.
• Provides resources to implement the strategy and delegating authority for detailed planning and execution as needed
• Establishes strategic goals for their function, aligned to business priorities, creating frameworks for various business and technology cases, and clarifies the path for their team to implement
• Recognizes the potential strategic application of technology capabilities, defines the solutions, and influences appropriate investments
• Acts as the ultimate escalation point for issue resolution.
• Sets, negotiates, agrees, and manages all team financial budgets and targets.
• Provides strong mentorship up, down and across their organization and the enterprise as a whole
• Builds clear and impactful career plans for their leaders unifying their personal goals and the business needs and assists them in driving similar plans for their team members

Qualifications:

DESIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years in Quality Leadership roles
• Excellent people management and collaboration skills
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written)
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed teams preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, products and teams in a fast-paced environment.

Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States

Job : Corporate