Director of Product - Data products - Barcelona

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.

Meet the team

This is a pivotal product role at Preply. You will be responsible for building and scaling a brand new product function focused on data products and expertise, driving the company's transition into a truly data-powered organization.

You will be the architect and advocate for how data transforms Preply's product vision, working transversally across the entire organization, from Growth to Learning Products. You will bring the 'so what' behind complex data, machine learning and engineering infrastructure products and own the business impact delivered by these products.

What You'll Be Doing

As the Director of Data Products, you will be at the core of Preply's data products transformation, owning the vision, execution, and impact of critical data product squads.

• Build the Vision of Preply’s data products: Define and champion the strategic vision for how data will transform Preply's products alongside your data and engineering partners. Lead continuous product discovery to deeply understand the needs of internal product teams, data practitioners, and end users. Translate these insights into a prioritized data product roadmap that balances immediate impact with long-term scalability.
• Drive impact: Own the end-to-end success of Preply’s data product portfolio, with clear accountability for adoption, business impact, and ROI. Define and track success metrics such as experiment velocity, decision latency, revenue uplift, and learner/tutor outcomes enabled by data products.
• Lead and scale the team: Hire, coach, and develop top talent in the new data products function.
• Platform & Innovation: This role is an exciting mix of scalable platform and data product innovation.
  • You will own the ML/LLM platform teams as well as foundational Data Platform and Analytics Engineering teams, ensuring robust, scalable, and governed data access.
  • You will also transform the platform into an innovation engine by creating high-impact, product-first data tools that deliver a clear competitive advantage and supercharge the entire organization's product roadmap, including how we scale and structure our rich datasets.
  • Partner closely with Data, Applied AI and Engineering leadership to define robust, scalable, and future-proof data, ML and LLM products.
• Business Impact: Anchor all technical and expert thinking into clear, tangible business impact, ensuring our data investments drive competitive advantage and deliver measurable value to learners and tutors.
• Transversal Leadership: Work across all major product verticals (e.g., Growth, Tutor Acquisition, Learning Experience) to identify, build, and integrate high-impact data products.
• Experimentation: Own the experimentation function and platform directly, driving a culture of data-informed product iteration and learning.

What You'll Need

• Experience in Data-as-a-Product: Demonstrated experience coming from companies where data is explicitly considered a product. Demonstrated ability to connect data and ML investments to business outcomes, including revenue growth, cost efficiency, unit economics, and strategic differentiation.
• Scalability and System Thinking: Demonstrated ability to design data products and infrastructure that scale horizontally across the entire organization, moving beyond single-use-case solutions to enable systemic impact.
• Experimentation experience: Deep expertise in A/B testing and experimentation best practices in a large scale organization.
• Technical Depth & Impact: Comfortable going deep into architecture, understanding complex data/ML infrastructure, and translating that technical expertise into tangible business value and product outcomes.
• ML & LLM Expertise: Strong practical experience or deep understanding of the application of Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLM) in product development.
• Leadership & Management: Proven success in managing and scaling highly technical and data driven product teams, mentoring leaders, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
• Product Acumen: A strong product mindset, able to define the "why" and "what" for complex data capabilities and align them with overall company goals.
• Exceptional Communication: The ability to communicate complex data concepts and strategic visions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Stakeholder management & influence: Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data, and Applied AI.

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;