Senior Product Manager - Fintech

Preply; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Preply is seeking a Product Manager to lead the fintech/Payments squad, owning the roadmap, ensuring compliance, and driving growth for our global learner and tutor platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and align stakeholders to deliver measurable impact.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, data-driven decision making, and delivering lovable user experiences while scaling revenue and trust across the marketplace.

Qualifications

• Extensive product management experience in payments sector or related roles.
• Hands-on leader with end-to-end product thinking and execution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Experience building products in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives at different development stages.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad from the Product side as Preply expands globally in fintech.
• Measure impact and manage trade-offs while protecting user experience and business performance.
• Drive the squad's operating rhythm: planning, ceremonies, delivery tracking.
• Align with leadership and communicate priorities, risks, and decisions.
• Coordinate across teams to align stakeholders for launching initiatives successfully.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Compliance understanding

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven

User-centric design

Job description

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.

Meet the team:

As a product team, our goal is to improve the life of our students and our tutors, drive amazing learning outcomes for our learners and enable our tutors to financially thrive through the platform. And we want to do this all while generating business value for Preply so we can help even more people! We strongly believe that we can't achieve business success without our students' and tutors' success.

You will be a valuable member of our Fintech/Payments tribe, which is dedicated to maximizing the potential of our learners and tutors by focusing on revenue growth for our Edtech platform. Together, we forge a path that not only maximizes revenue but also transcends monetary gains, with a profound dedication to empowering learners and helping them conquer their learning goals. We achieve this by enhancing our Subscription proposal, streamlining payments (pay-in and payouts), and driving sustainable growth of our marketplace.

With great power comes great responsibility. At Preply, Product Managers have true end-to-end ownership and accountability for their product area - from defining the long-term vision and strategy to shaping solutions, driving execution, launching products, and measuring customer and business impact.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the squad from the Product side: As preply expands globally, we're looking for someone who can help us grow our business within the fintech area by understanding compliance requirements, assessing priorities, and owning the roadmap, planning, and execution.

• Measure impact and manage trade-offs: Ensure we meet our compliance obligations while protecting the user experience and business performance.

• Drive the squad's operating rhythm: Lead planning, team ceremonies, and delivery tracking to keep execution focused and effective.

• Align with leadership: Communicate priorities, progress, risks, and decisions in a role with significant leadership exposure.

• Coordinate across teams: Align the internal stakeholders and dependencies needed to launch each initiative successfully.

What you need to succeed:

• Substantial experience in product management, preferably at companies that specialize in developing products for the payments industry or individuals who have held related roles. This experience will be valuable in understanding the unique challenges and requirements of the payments industry and effectively contributing to the growth and success of our organization.

• Experience in being a hands-on leader to drive results both through direct product development and through strong end-to-end thinking and execution.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. You know how to influence people to get things done across any job function. People love working with you.

• Experience building a product in a fast paced, and rapid growth environment.

• Ability to support multiple initiatives at different phases of development

• Strong eye for design and desire to create lovable experiences.

• Strong analytical abilities and live and breathe data.

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.