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Senior Tutor Development Specialist

Hybrid in Barcelona·Full-time·Added 4 months ago (last checked 7 Oct)

Preply

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Overview

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

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Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

Are you passionate about teaching quality in online tutoring marketplaces? Do you have the experience to combine commercial acumen with rigorous adherence to teaching quality standards and tutor development?

  • Significant experience in tutor development, ideally within an edtech or tutoring marketplace setting or within a well-respected training institution

  • Experience in designing and delivering high quality tutor development at scale

  • Strong previous experience delivering one to one training in an online environment

  • Strong network in tutor development circles and demonstrable thought leadership around teaching quality

  • Excellent, inspiring communicator with deep facilitation skills and understanding of how to engage learners in online environments

  • Comfortable building video-based training content

  • Comfortable using AI tools to create learning content at scale

  • Comfortable using data tools (e.g. Amplitude, Looker) to evaluate performance and continuously improve learning impact

  • Confident working with subject matter experts and cross-functional teams (Product, Comms, Data) to build targeted, high-quality courses

  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have

  • Experience in global language tutoring marketplaces, ideally in cross-functional product or operations environments

  • Experience with tutor development for language subjects

  • Experience with tutor development for teaching young children

  • Experience with delivering training or tutor development for corporates

  • Experience using AI tools to enhance teaching and educator development or to develop content

  • Experience building partnerships with external providers, e.g. assessment, certification or validation of training quality

  • Proficiency in additional languages (especially Spanish)

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 or London? 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.

What you'll do

  • Together with Learning Design and Supply Operations, define and refine Preply's teaching quality standards and develop a strategy to ensure tutor quality grows measurably, quarter by quarter, for both language and non-language subjects.

  • Lead on the pedagogical, content and assessment strategy for our Initial Tutor Training program, ensuring it is best in class and appealing to one to one tutors globally.

  • Continuously analyze our teaching quality metrics and optimise tutor development content and strategy to optimise growth in teaching quality.

  • Commission appropriate tutor development content and hire/train SMEs across subject areas, making sure that tutor development programs set tutors up for success.

  • Together with the Supply Engagement team, develop Tutor Academy strategy, including pedagogical content, roadmap and defining delivery methods as well as contributing to the agenda and delivery for our annual Tutor Conference and regular webinar schedule.

  • With the Supply Engagement Team, develop our assessment content and delivery strategy for tutor development programs.

  • With our B2B Team, develop specific teaching strategies and assessment and course content requirements to meet client needs.

  • Work closely with the Learning Design team on aligning strategy for future tutor development curriculum, making sure it is aligned with strategy for self-learning curriculum and in-lesson feature development.

  • Work closely with Customer Experience Team on the development of specific development content in relation to the teaching of children.

  • Act as a thought leader on tutor development internally and externally, helping to raise the perception of Preply as a leader in tutor and teaching quality.

Our Principles

  • 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.

Hiring process

5 steps4 interviewsa task to do
  1. Chat with Talent Acquisition

    With Talent Acquisition team

    Share your experience, what drives you and why Preply, why now.

  2. Preliminary tech test

    Not every role

    For tech and product roles, a short test before the hiring team interviews.

  3. Interviews with the hiring team

    With hiring team

    A series of interviews with potential colleagues going deep into your experience and hard skills.

  4. Final task

    A case study, peer programming session or deeper technical discussion to show how you think through problems.

  5. 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
Website
preply.com

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

At Preply, we take pride in having the largest and most diverse base of tutors among all online language learning platforms. Our tutors play a crucial role in our vision to power people's progress. We are constantly pushing the boundaries, conducting hundreds of AB tests, and identifying opportunities to enhance the experience for both our students and tutors.

As a member of the Learning Design & Sciences team, you'll be working jointly with the Learning Tribe, which focuses on creating best-in-class learning experiences and tutor tooling and the Supply Operations team, which focuses on delivering life-changing learning experiences for tutors. In this role, you will lead on defining teaching quality at Preply: the skills and capabilities we want our tutors to have, how we measure these, how we grow them and what development content we create. You'll co-lead on our ambitious Academy strategy: helping to define, design and commission our tutor development content and offering - ensuring that Preply tutors can access the development they need to succeed. You will work cross-functionally to define and maintain high-impact learning programs, act as a thought leader and inspiration to our tutor community, and help tutors thrive by identifying tutor development needs and designing interventions to grow tutor quality.

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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