Senior Product Strategy & Operations Manager

Senior Product Strategy & Operations Manager 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! Preply is growing quickly. Once a scrappy startup, we’re now firmly in scale-up mode — continuously evolving how we work to match our growth. The Preply product and technology teams are now substantially larger than they were a few years ago, and therefore it is critical to us that, as we scale, we maintain the pace and dynamism that has brought so much success for Preply over the past years. For this reason we are hiring our first Senior Product Strategy & Operations Manager to help us take our Product team to the next level, to ensure the ways we work across our product organisation are first class, and to make sure we’re able to manage the tricky balance of execution, collaboration, speed, quality, focus, communication, and much more. This is a key role in the product team and will report directly to the Chief Product Officer. This role provides unrivalled access to the day-to-day of how Preply runs its product and technology organisation. You’ll be at the heart of our planning and decision-making, and will support the team at every level. Your closest partner will be the CPO and VP-level product leaders, and you’ll work closely day-to-day with Product Managers, Designers, Engineering leaders and others. If you are equally passionate about delivering amazing product experiences, and building effective organizations that work collaboratively and at high velocity, this role if for you. It sits at the heart of a world-class product organization — helping it evolve and scale for the next phase of growth. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING - Operational cadence: Set up and run the operational rhythm of the Product org, leading rituals such as Product Reviews, Roadmap Reviews, and OKR cycles. - Driving alignment: Own the quarterly and annual product planning processes to ensure strong cross-team alignment so everyone is pulling in the same direction. - Team transformation: Define how our Product, Design, and Tech teams will scale — identifying challenges and bottlenecks, and designing effective ways for teams to collaborate and grow. - OKR leadership: Drive goal-setting and tracking across the team, ensuring each squad is focused on outcomes and supported in hitting their targets. - Strategic initiatives: Lead or support diverse strategic initiatives — such as how we balance speed and quality as a team, or how to approach pricing in our marketplace — from scoping and analysis to stakeholder alignment and delivery. - Organizational improvement: Constantly look for ways to improve how we operate - identifying pain points, proposing solutions, and driving implementation for better ways of working, tooling, and processes. WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED - Hands-on experience working closely with product teams: you’ve operated in or alongside product squads in fast-growing, product-led tech companies, and understand their day-to-day reality. - Deep understanding of modern product organizations and team dynamics: how empowered product squads work, and how to enable them to deliver at scale. - System ... (truncated, view full listing at source)