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 integral scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.
Meet the team
You'll lead Preply's IT team: a lean, capable group that keeps a fast-moving, globally distributed company running every day. With strong foundations already in place,



the next chapter is about increasing automation, strengthening operational excellence, and evolving IT into a more strategic function. This is the role that will lead that transformation.
You’ll be both the architect and the hands-on operator: setting the vision and tooling strategy for the whole organization, while staying close enough to the systems to script, automate, and build alongside your team. You’ll report into senior technology leadership and work directly with C-level stakeholders to make IT a measurable driver of efficiency, cost control, and employee experience.

What you’ll be doing:
1. Strategy, vision and business enablement
- Own and evolve a multi-quarter IT roadmap tied directly to Preply’s business goals, treating IT as an enabler of growth rather than a cost center.
- Set the tooling strategy and standards across the organization: decide what we adopt, consolidate, and retire, and articu

📌 Director of IT (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona