Staff Product Manager (Platform)

Barcelona

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!).