Staff Product Designer
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.
Design at Preply
At Preply, we believe learning with the right tutor can be life-changing. Designing products that help people build confidence, make progress, and unlock opportunity through learning is both a privilege and a responsibility. It takes a diverse, multidisciplinary team to build a product at this scale - and Design plays a central role in shaping how learners and tutors experience Preply every day.
Design at Preply is about creating bold, beautiful, and seamless experiences that feel intuitive, motivating, and human. We care deeply about craft - not just at the surface level, but in how experiences are shaped end-to-end - and about turning deep user understanding into products that meaningfully improve outcomes.
This is a senior and strategic IC role with broad influence. As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll operate beyond a single problem space, shaping direction across complex areas of the product and raising the bar for design quality through both your work and your influence on others.
What you’ll be doing:
Shape high-impact product experiences that help learners and tutors connect, engage, and succeed over time, influencing direction across complex areas of the product.
Co-create product strategy and experience direction in close partnership with Product, Engineering, and leadership, influencing priorities across interconnected initiatives.
Own design end-to-end across multi-threaded work, connecting long-term vision with high-quality execution.
Drive exploration, prototyping, and experimentation, pushing beyond existing patterns to meaningfully improve usability, effectiveness, and value.
Contribute to shared patterns and the design system, helping ensure consistency and coherence across the product.
Mentor and coach other designers through feedback, pairing, and critique, raising the bar through collaboration and example.
Engage actively in cross-functional discussions and workshops, helping teams navigate ambiguity and move toward clarity.
What you need to succeed:
Proven experience operating at a Staff Product Designer level, with ownership over broad, high-impact product areas.
A strong track record of co-creating product direction in close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and leadership.
Exceptional craft and product judgment, demonstrated through shipped work with clear impact.
Deep user empathy, with experience synthesizing research, data, and insight into confident design decisions.
Experience designing, building, or scaling AI-driven product features in user-facing products in a big plus.
Experience mentoring and coaching other designers, both informally and through regular feedback and critique.
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 and physical health support platforms;
The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).
…and more, depending on your location.
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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.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that 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.