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# 🚨 Urgent Hire: Preschool Director | 50k to $60K | St. Charles, IL at Distro

- **Company:** Distro
- **Location:** Multiple Locations
- **Compensation:** $50k–$60k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/distro/b26e7b20-023d-4667-8ecc-86fa36a1477a

## Job description

- Position: Preschool Director
- Position Summary: The Preschool Director provides strategic and operational leadership for the center, overseeing daily operations, licensing compliance, enrollment growth, staff development, family engagement, and overall school performance. This hands-on leader will launch, manage, and grow a high-quality early childhood education program while fostering a positive culture for children, families, and staff.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee all daily school operations, ensuring a safe, organized, and high-quality learning environment.
- Ensure compliance with all Illinois DCFS licensing standards, regulations, and center policies.
- Recruit, hire, onboard, train, coach, evaluate, and retain high-performing teachers and staff.
- Drive enrollment growth through tours, family engagement, community outreach, and marketing initiatives.
- Build strong relationships with current and prospective families; serve as the primary point of contact for school leadership.
- Maintain high educational standards and support curriculum implementation aligned with Montessori and Reggio Emilia principles.
- Develop staff through ongoing coaching, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
- Manage scheduling, staffing, budgeting, recordkeeping, and administrative functions.
- Monitor center performance, enrollment goals, and operational metrics.
- Establish partnerships with community organizations and participate in local networking events.
- Foster a positive, collaborative, and inclusive school culture.
- Required Qualifications:
- Must meet Illinois DCFS Director Qualifications.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Early Childhood Education.
- Previous leadership experience in a preschool, daycare, childcare center, or early learning program.
- Strong knowledge of childcare licensing requirements, regulatory compliance, and center operations.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and time-management abilities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and childcare management software.
- Ability to successfully pass all required background checks and screenings.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Montessori experience and/or Montessori certification.
- Experience opening or launching a new preschool or childcare center.
- Enrollment management, admissions, and family retention experience.
- Marketing and community outreach experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education, Education, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Experience managing budgets and financial performance.
- Strong community engagement and relationship-building background.
- Physical Requirements:
- Ability to move throughout the facility, including classrooms, offices, and outdoor play areas.
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, and sit for extended periods as needed.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 40 pounds occasionally.
- Ability to actively participate in school events, classroom activities, and emergency situations.
- Ability to use computers, phones, and office equipment for extended periods.
- Ability to communicate effectively with children, families, staff, and community partners.
- Visual and auditory ability to supervise children and maintain a safe environment.

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## About Distro

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Distro provides an AI-powered global hiring platform that automates candidate screening, outreach, scheduling, and payroll compliance for remote-first companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Vensure Employer Services)
- **Headquarters**: Lehi, Utah, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Chad Ingram (CEO), Andrew Mackay (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Recruitment / Talent Acquisition Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – seed-stage startups to enterprise teams, focused on remote-first and globally distributed companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Hiring should feel human. Not heavy.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Recruiting Assistant**: Automates resume screening, scoring, and candidate ranking based on job criteria; handles outreach and scheduling end-to-end.
- **AI Scheduling Assistant**: Automates interview scheduling, reducing one of the biggest administrative burdens in recruiting.
- **Global Hiring Marketplace**: Matches companies with top technical talent across 200+ countries, including payroll and compliance support in 90+ EOR (Employer of Record) countries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $2M ARR reached within 8 months of MVP (reported as a milestone); current total funding not publicly available
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Acquired by Vensure Employer Services (January 2026); serves companies from seed-stage to enterprise
- **Growth Signals**: 26.3% headcount growth YoY (19 employees as of mid-2026), 222% LinkedIn follower growth YoY, 4900% increase in job postings YoY (100 active positions), SOC 2 Type I certified, 1–3 days to shortlist

## Competitive Advantages
- AI-first screening reduces recruiter workload by surfacing only the top 3–5 candidates
- Global reach (200+ countries, 90+ EOR countries) with full compliance handling
- Skills-based screening (not pedigree) – appeals to a broader, more diverse talent pool
- Fast time-to-shortlist (1–3 days) and automated scheduling reduce time-to-hire by 1–2 weeks

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding AI capabilities in recruiting (e.g., AI Scheduling Assistant)
- Deepen integration with Vensure Employer Services to scale global payroll and compliance
- Grow the marketplace by attracting more technical talent and enterprise clients
- Maintain SOC 2 compliance and enterprise-grade security standards

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: AI-first, mission-driven (“make hiring human”), global team spanning 8 countries, emphasis on fair and skills-based screening
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Some roles are on-site (Lehi, UT; Chandler, AZ) while the company supports remote employees across multiple countries; hybrid/remote likely role-dependent
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Fast-paced startup environment with recent acquisition support; employees work on cutting-edge AI recruiting tools; dedicated account managers for candidates and a focus on long-term roles

## Sources
1. [distro.io](https://distro.io/)
2. [distro.io/about-us](https://distro.io/about-us)
3. [distro.io/press](https://distro.io/press)
4. [linkedin.com/company/distroio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/distroio)
5. [jobs.lever.co/distro](https://jobs.lever.co/distro)

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