Staff Product Manager (Platform)

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Strong product thinking combined with technical literacy in software engineering, developer tooling, or systems
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and conflicting priorities

What you need to succeed

• Experience working with highly technical internal products (platforms, tooling, infra, or developer-facing systems)
• 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: prior hands-on experience as a software engineer or Engineering Manager before transitioning into Product

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!).

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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.