product manager for platform capabilities

Preply creates personalized language-learning experiences by connecting learners with tutors and combining human-led teaching with technology and AI. Its platform serves more than 100,000 tutors teaching over 90 languages to learners in 180 countries.

• 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, focusing on impact;
• Translate platform needs into clear product requirements and priorities;
• Partner with engineering to evaluate technical trade-offs and scalable platform solutions;
• 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 such as DORA and CI/CD reliability;
• Lead migrations and deprecations with empathy, clarity, and consistency;
• Work closely with EMs and Staff+ engineers, embedded with engineering teams.

• Strong product thinking combined with technical literacy in software engineering, developer tooling, or systems;
• Experience working with highly technical internal products such as platforms, tooling, infrastructure, 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;
• Conceptual understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure;
• Familiarity with modern distributed systems;
• Understanding of trade-offs between reliability and velocity, abstraction and flexibility, and standardization and team autonomy;
• Familiarity with 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.

• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com;
• Learning & Development budget and time off for self-development;
• Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance;
• Attractive relocation package for joining the Preply Barcelona Hub;
• Access to free mental health support platforms;
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain.