About the role
Location: Remote, North Carolina · Travel: Frequent, statewide · Type: Full-time North Carolina needs more great child care, and the people who could open it — talented, caring future business owners — usually never start, because launching and running a licensed program feels impossible. Your job is to find those people, convince them they can do it, and teach them how. This isn’t a desk job and it isn’t a clipboard job. You’ll be on the road across the state: recruiting new providers, sitting down with people who run centers and family child care homes out of their own communities, and coaching them from “I have an idea” all the way to a licensed, full, financially healthy business. What you’ll do Recruit new child care providers — go find the people who should be doing this and bring them in. Motivate and coach them through licensing, from first conversation to open doors, for both centers and family child care homes. Teach providers how to actually run a business: enrollment, operations, compliance, and the numbers that keep the lights on. Translate North Carolina’s licensing rules (DCDEE) into plain steps people can act on, and keep providers compliant once they’re open. Build the playbooks, training, and materials that let us help the next hundred providers faster than the last. Partner with state agencies and community organizations to expand child care supply where it’s needed most.
Who you are You’re the person who can walk into a room and get someone to bet on themselves — part recruiter, part coach, part operator. You know how businesses actually run, you’re relentless about detail, and people trust you fast. You’re genuinely willing to travel and you’d rather be in the field than behind a screen. Knowledge of North Carolina child care licensing — ideally from inside or alongside DCDEE — is a strong advantage, but the instinct to recruit, motivate, and teach is what makes this role work. Big pluses An MBA, or a business-school undergraduate degree. You know how to use AI tools and you can figure things out on your own — you don’t wait to be told how. Experience recruiting, coaching, or consulting to small business owners or child care providers. Familiarity with North Carolina’s quality rating and improvement work. This is how we close the child care gap in North Carolina — one provider, one business, one neighborhood at a time. Competitive
compensation, full-time.
About Wonderschool
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes.
Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own.
Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing, and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments.
It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months, and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high-quality care and learning environments for children.
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Job details
Location
North Carolina, USA
Funding
Total raised
$50M
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.