Senior Product Manager (Platform)

Whereby; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development budget

Health insurance

Relocation package to Barcelona Hub

Job summary

Preply is seeking a Staff Platform Product Manager to own strategy for platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, harden reliability, and accelerate delivery. You will define platform as a product and set the roadmap for platform standards and processes across engineering teams.

You will drive adoption of platform capabilities, measure success with metrics like DORA/Cloud cost, and work with EMs and Staff+ engineers to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong product thinking integrated with technical literacy in software engineering or similar.
• Experience with highly technical internal products (platforms, tooling, infra).
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and conflicting priorities.
• Proven ability to challenge priorities and align stakeholders.
• Bias for leverage, defaults, and standards to unlock creativity.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and platform metrics.
• Ability to review RFCs and architecture proposals at a high level.
• Nice-to-have: hands-on software engineering or Engineering Manager background.

Responsibilities

• Maintain product charters for platform products and define success metrics.
• Own vision, roadmap, and OKRs for core platform capabilities.
• Identify and prioritize developer pain points using signals.
• Translate platform needs into clear product requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering on scalable platform solutions and drive standardization.
• Define and track metrics such as developer productivity, reliability, and cost.
• Align platform investments with growth and scaling goals.
• Lead discovery via developer interviews, surveys, incident reviews, and platform metrics.
• Manage migrations and deprecations with clarity and empathy.
• Work closely with EMs and Staff+ engineers, embedded with engineering teams.

Skills

Product thinking

Technical literacy

Platform product experience

Ambiguity management

Stakeholder alignment

Standardization mindset

Cloud fundamentals

Distributed systems

SLOs & metrics

RFC review ability

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!

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.

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 be doing:

• 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

What you need to succeed:

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

Why you’ll love it at Preply:

• 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.