Director of IT

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.

• 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 articulate why.
• Operate fluidly across altitudes: set direction with leadership one moment, and make sharp technical calls the next.
• Plan ahead, anticipating what a fast-scaling company will need from IT 12 to 18 months out, and building toward it.
• Bring an AI-first, automate-first mindset to how IT runs: provisioning, access, support deflection, and asset reconciliation.
• Lead by example. Build and ship automations yourself, and show both your team and the wider company what good looks like.
• Continuously surface AI tooling that makes employees’ lives easier, with a clear, opinionated view on where it adds value and where it’s just noise.
• Bring those AI-native ways of working to the rest of the organization, not just to IT.
• Lead, grow, and mature a lean IT team into a senior, process-driven function.
• Raise the technical bar across the team, coaching toward more technical, AI-fluent ways of working.
• Stay hands-on where it counts: scripting, automation, and MDM and identity configuration.
• Build the operating rhythm (SLAs, runbooks, prioritization) that lets the team scale its impact without scaling headcount one-for-one.
• Own international fleet and device lifecycle end to end, from procurement and enrollment to retirement, across multiple countries.
• Run identity, access, and endpoint management to a high standard of reliability for a distributed workforce.
• Manage the Barcelona hub’s on-site technology: the office network, meeting-room AV, and video conferencing tools and devices.
• Own the IT services behind company off-sites and events, from connectivity and AV to on-the-ground support, wherever the company gathers.
• Treat IT’s own security and compliance hygiene (endpoint compliance, identity hygiene, least privilege on IT-managed systems) as a core operating principle.
• Own visibility into what Preply spends on IT, SaaS, and software tools, and help Finance understand, forecast, and plan that spend.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement on contracts, renewals, and vendor rationalization.
• Drive cost and compliance efficiency: eliminate shadow IT, consolidate overlapping tools, and negotiate from a position of data.
• Build dashboards and reporting that give leadership a clear, current view of IT health, spend, and the status of every initiative.
• Provide crisp, proactive follow-ups on where things stand, so leadership never has to chase.
• Manage and influence C-level stakeholders directly, translating technical reality into business decisions.
• Make decisions from data, not anecdotes.

• 10+ years leading and growing IT teams or functions in a fast-scaling technology or SaaS company.
• A true architect and operator: you set strategy and stay hands-on. You’re still comfortable scripting, automating, and configuring MDM and identity systems yourself.
• Deep experience running international fleet and device management, identity, and endpoint management (e.g. Jamf, Okta, or equivalents).
• A strong command of SaaS and software spend management and FinOps practices, and comfort partnering with Finance on cost visibility and forecasting.
• An AI-first, automate-first operator: you’ve used AI to remove toil, and you bring a clear, opinionated point of view on tooling.
• A proven ability to manage and influence senior, C-level stakeholders.
• A data-driven approach: you rely on dashboards and reporting that drive real decisions, and you plan ahead.
• You treat IT’s own security and compliance hygiene as non-negotiable.
• Professional fluency in English.

• 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.
• The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).