Preply
Ed-Tech
SeniorDirector,DataScienceandAnalytics
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“Senior Director, Data Science and Analytics at Preply. Skills: Data Science leadership, Analytics leadership, Team building, Strategic planning, Stakeholder management, Experimentation and measurement expertise, Commercial and marketing analytics depth. Set the strategy for Data Science & Analytics across Product Analytics, Marketing, Business Analytics, and Data Science. Lead and scale a high-performing organisation”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve decision quality; Turn data into repeatable growth and impact; Ensure the organisation is making high-quality, evidence-based decisions that translate into measurable business impact; Improve conversion; Improve retention; Improve monetisation; Improve learner outcomes; Improve tutor success; Improve long-term value; Make high-quality decisions in complex environments where impact can be hard to measure; Strengthen commercial and marketing decision-making; Make faster, better decisions
Industry & Context.
Dive deep when needed into the quality of experiments, metrics, analysis, and recommendations; Challenge assumptions; Investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Senior leadership experience leading analytics and data science teams teams in a high-growth product, marketplace, subscription, consumer, or other digital business, at least 7+ years leading analytics or experimentation organisations, managing managers, business and strategic judgement, A track record of measurable impact across areas such as conversion, retention, monetisation, customer lifetime value, marketing efficiency, marketplace performance, or product engagement, Deep experimentation and measurement expertise, Commercial and marketing analytics depth, Proven ability to build and raise the bar for senior teams, Technical leadership
Nice to Have
experience working closely together with finance and business teams, the technical judgement to evaluate quality, ask the right questions, and raise standards across teams, hiring, developing managers and senior ICs, setting expectations, improving performance, and creating a culture of high standards and accountability
What You'll Do.
Set the strategy for Data Science & Analytics across Product Analytics
Lead and scale a high-performing organisation
Turn data into business impact by partnering with senior leaders to shape product
and financial decisions
Raise the bar on experimentation and measurement
Strengthen commercial and marketing decision-making
Build scalable standards and ways of working for trusted metrics
consistent decision-making
high-quality analysis
Lead AI-powered self-serve analytics
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with senior leaders across Preply’s to shape business strategy, improve decision quality, and turn data into repeatable growth and impact; Collaboration with Data Platform, Analytics Engineering, Experimentation, and Applied AI teams; Collaboration
Communication Scope
Influence senior stakeholders; Communicate openly and candidly
Full Job Description
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 global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day. MEET THE TEAM! We are looking for a Senior Director of Data Science & Analytics to lead Preply’s Product, Business, and Marketing Analytics and Data Science organisation. This is a senior leadership role with broad company impact. You will lead a multidisciplinary team of around 35 people today, growing to approximately 40–45 over the next 12 months, across Product Analytics, Marketing Analytics, and Business Analytics and Data Science. The team already plays a critical role in how Preply makes product, marketing, marketplace, learning and financial decisions. Your mandate is to raise the ambition, impact, and operating bar of this function as Preply scales. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Preply’s to shape business strategy, improve decision quality, and turn data into repeatable growth and impact. You will bring both strategic leadership and technical depth. At Preply, leaders are expected to set direction, build strong teams, influence executive decisions, and dive deep when needed into the quality of experiments, metrics, analysis, and recommendations. You do not
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