Overview

As the first Platform Product Manager, you will shape internal platform products to reduce developer friction, boost reliability, and accelerate delivery. You'll define vision and roadmaps for core platform capabilities and promote standardization across engineering teams. You'll translate technical needs into clear requirements, partner with engineers on scalable solutions, and measure impact on productivity and cost.

This role sits at the intersection of product and platform, enabling rapid growth at a integral scale while keeping developer experience central.

Compensaciones / Beneficios Lessons allowance for learning on Preply.com

Learning & Development budget

Time off for self-development

Competitive package with equity and health insurance

Relocation package to Barcelona Hub

Mental health support platforms available? (explicit) yes? but keep as listed: mental health support platforms, gym/wellbeing initiatives

Responsabilidades Maintain product charters with users, problems, non-goals, and success metrics

Define and own vision, roadmap, and OKRs for core platform capabilities

Identify and prioritize developer pain points using qualitative and quantitative signals

Translate platform needs into clear requirements and priorities

Partner with engineering to evaluate trade-offs for scalable platform capabilities

Drive adoption of platform standards across teams

Define and track success metrics (productivity, reliability,



cost efficiency)

Align platform investments with growth and scaling goals

Conduct discovery via developer interviews, surveys, incident reviews, and platform metrics

Lead migrations and deprecations with empathy and clarity

Collaborate closely with EMs and Staff+ engineers, embedded with engineering teams

Requisitos principales Strong product thinking with technical literacy in software engineering, developer tooling, or systems

Experience with highly technical internal products (platforms, tooling, infra, or developer-facing systems)

Ability to operate in ambiguity and conflicting priorities

Proven ability to challenge priorities and align stakeholders

Bias for leverage, defaults, and standards to unlock creativity

Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure; modern distributed systems

Understanding of trade-offs between reliability vs velocity, abstraction vs flexibility, standardization vs autonomy

Knowledge of SLOs, DORA metrics, and cost efficiency metrics

Ability to review RFCs and architecture proposals at a conceptual, outcome-oriented level

Nice-to-have: hands-on software engineering or Engineering Manager background

Collaborative mindset

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking with bias for actionable results

Cloud platforms and infrastructure

Modern distributed systems

SLOs, DORA metrics, cost efficiency metrics

📌 Staff Product Manager (Platform) (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona