Director of Data Products - London Location: London

Director of Data Products - London

Location

London

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Product Management

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

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.

If you are passionate about defining the future of data and AI-driven products and leveraging data as a core competitive asset, this is your opportunity to build an industry-leading capability from the ground up.

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 (e.g., cross-vertical personalization, company-wide decision support).

• 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, navigating trade-offs and resolving conflicts in a high-ambiguity environment.

Why you’ll love it at Preply

• An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture;
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons onPreply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development;
• A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance;
• Access to free mental health support platforms;
• 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.

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