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Senior Growth Specialist

Preply

Preply

Sales & Business Development
Barcelona, Spain
Posted on Jun 7, 2025

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 personalized learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled – and it’s creating real impact. So far, 90,000 tutors have delivered over 20 million lessons to learners in more than 175 countries. Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters.

Meet the team!

At Preply, tutors are core to our mission of unlocking human potential through learning. As part of the Supply Operations team, you will own high-impact initiatives that help tutors (supply) succeed from the beginning of their journey on Preply. Your primary responsibilities will be identifying growth opportunities, building business cases, and owning programs from idea through execution in order to acquire and activate a high quality and engaged tutor base. You’ll also manage (and optimize where appropriate) our limited supply acquisition channels. This role reports to the Senior Growth Manager of Supply Operations and will work closely with the broader Supply Operations, Product, Data, and Marketing teams to drive supply growth.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Optimize tutor activation & engagement
    • Design and scale programs that help tutors reach activation milestones
    • Lead lifecycle improvements, CRM interventions, community nudges, and onboarding flows tied to tutor early success
  • Lead high-leverage Supply initiatives
    • Identify and own cross-functional growth projects that improve tutor performance and learner outcomes
    • Partner with Product teams to scope and deliver updates across surfaces such as onboarding, tutor profiles, search pages, and dashboards
    • Drive stakeholder alignment and resourcing, ensuring the most critical supply-side opportunities are prioritized and delivered
  • Maintain Supply acquisition
    • Manage a limited, high-quality acquisition stream – stepping in when gaps arise or strategic needs (subject, region, level, etc) emerge
    • Collaborate with Brand and Performance Marketing to shape messaging, targeting, and creative
  • Collaborate & influence cross-functionally
    • Act as the main point of contact for tutor activation & growth projects
    • Influence Product and Marketing roadmaps by making the case for supply-side investments and their expected ROI
    • Evangelize tutor-side learnings across the business to inform marketplace strategy
  • Make data-informed decisions
    • Build dashboards, analyze performance data, and identify bottlenecks to continuously optimize performance and identify new opportunities
    • Use tools like Looker, Amplitude, or SQL to pull insights and challenge assumptions

What you need to succeed:

  • 4+ years of experience in growth, lifecycle marketing, conversion rate optimization, or marketplace operations, ideally in a cross-functional environment
  • Proven experience leading initiatives from discovery to execution across multiple teams
  • Highly analytical, hands-on with data, & comfortable turning insights into action
  • Experience with paid marketing channel management, maintenance, & optimization
  • A growth mindset of always testing, learning, and scaling with a drive to get things done
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to cultivate collaborative relationships with team members and partners
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Previous (supply-side) marketplace experience is a plus
  • Previous experience driving or supporting user activation efforts is great to have

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;
  • 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!).

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 is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. Different opinions and viewpoints are key ingredients in our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company.

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. Together, we are The World Class.

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