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Staff Product Manager (Platform) in Barcelona

Hybrid in Barcelona·Full-time·Added 1 month ago (last checked 22 Oct)

Preply

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Our summary

Work mode: Hybrid, Barcelona
Contract: Full-time
Relocation: A relocation package
English: Required
Experience: Senior level
Benefits: Private health insurance, gym access

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Skills

Preply is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in Barcelona.

Requirements

What we're looking for

Strong product thinking combined with technical literacy in software engineering, developer tooling, or systems
Experience working with highly technical internal products (platforms, tooling, infra, or developer-facing systems)
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and conflicting priorities
Proven ability to challenge priorities and drive alignment across internal stakeholders
A bias for leverage, defaults, and standards, grounded in the belief that standardization unlocks creativity
Solid conceptual understanding of/familiarity with:
- Cloud platforms and infrastructure
- Modern distributed systems
- Trade-offs between Reliability vs velocity, Abstraction vs flexibility, Standardization vs team autonomy
- SLOs, DORA metrics, and cost efficiency metrics.
Ability to review and challenge technical RFCs and architecture proposals at a conceptual, outcome-oriented level

Nice to have

Nice-to-have: prior hands-on experience as a software engineer or Engineering Manager before transitioning into Product

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture;
A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development;
A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance;
Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub
Access to free mental health support platforms;
Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health;
The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).

The role

We power people's progress.

At Preply, we're all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it's creating real impact.

We've just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we're only getting started. As a category-defining company, we're shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.

Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

As Staff Platform Product Manager, You'll own the product strategy for platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, harden reliability, and compress delivery speed. As Platform becomes the foundation for Preply's agentic SDLC transformation, you'll define what "platform as a product" means at agent-scale - not just for engineers, but for the fleet of AI agents now writing and shipping our code.

The role focuses on defining and evolving paved paths used by engineering teams, translating engineering constraints into clear product decisions, and measuring and reducing developer friction. You will also drive the adoption of platform capabilities and navigate hard trade-offs between flexibility and standardization.

What you'll do

Maintain product charters for platform products, including users, problem statements, non-goals, and success metrics
Define and own the vision, roadmap, and OKRs for core platform capabilities
Identify and prioritize developer pain points using qualitative and quantitative signals with the focus on impact
Translate platform needs into clear product requirements and priorities
Partner with engineering to evaluate technical trade-offs and solutions, focusing on scalable platform capabilities rather than custom solutions for individual teams
Drive adoption of platform standards across teams
Define and track success metrics such as developer productivity, reliability, and cost efficiency
Align platform investments with company growth and scaling goals
Run discovery through developer interviews, Dev Experience surveys, support interruptions, incident reviews, and platform metrics (e.g. DORA, CI/CD reliability)
Lead migrations and deprecations with empathy, clarity, and consistency
Work closely with EMs and Staff+ engineers, spending most of your time embedded with engineering teams

Hiring process

5 steps4 interviewsa task to do

Chat with Talent Acquisition
With Talent Acquisition team
Share your experience, what drives you and why Preply, why now.
Preliminary tech test
Not every role
For tech and product roles, a short test before the hiring team interviews.
Interviews with the hiring team
With hiring team
A series of interviews with potential colleagues going deep into your experience and hard skills.
Final task
A case study, peer programming session or deeper technical discussion to show how you think through problems.
Culture Champion interview
With a Culture Champion
Meet one of Preply's Culture Champions to check principles fit.

Talent Acquisition briefs you on what the final task involves and how to succeed.

About Preply

Preply is a global online learning platform that connects students with private tutors for personalized language lessons and academic tutoring. Founded in 2012, the company has grown into a major EdTech player, operating a marketplace that spans over 180 countries and offers instruction in dozens of languages, with a significant focus on English learning. The platform leverages technology to match learners with tutors based on their goals, schedule, and budget, and has become a prominent destination for both learners seeking flexible education and tutors seeking income.

Preply's Spanish headquarters is located in Barcelona, a key hub for its European operations and a significant part of its global expansion. The company's workforce is highly international, with a strong emphasis on engineering, data science, and product roles, making it an attractive option for international professionals looking to relocate to Spain. The Barcelona office operates as a central tech and product hub, and the company's culture is described as dynamic, data-driven, and remote-friendly, with a strong focus on AI and machine learning applications in education.

Industry: EdTech
Founded: 2012
Employees: 500–1,000
Headquarters: Brookline, USA
In Spain: Barcelona

Good to know if you are moving

Preply's workforce is highly international, with employees from over 50 countries, making it a common destination for expats.
The company offers fully remote and hybrid work options, which can facilitate a relocation to Spain.
Barcelona is a major tech hub in Europe, and Preply's office there is central to its product and engineering teams.
The company's official working language is English, easing the transition for international professionals.
Preply has a strong focus on AI and data science, offering roles for senior engineers and data scientists in its Barcelona hub.

In their own words

About the company & team

Meet the team!

The Platform Tribe at Preply brings together teams responsible for the internal foundations that enable engineers to build, deploy, and operate Preply reliably and at scale. Today, we have around 200 engineers at Preply, with plans to grow the team by another 100 engineers this year, making the Platform Tribe a critical enabler of our next phase of growth.

Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.
We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.
Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals, focus on what matters, and utilize our resources efficiently.
Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.
Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.
Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference.
Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don't fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made.
One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress.

Additional information

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.

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