Senior Tutor Development Specialist

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Employment Type

Full-time

Work Location Type

Hybrid

About the Position

At Preply, we are dedicated to creating transformative learning experiences. We empower individuals to discover the perfect tutor, craft personalized learning journeys, and stay motivated to grow. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled, and it’s making a real impact.

We’ve recently achieved unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our mission to revolutionize education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, over 100,000 tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries-and we’re just getting started. As a leading company, we are shaping the future of learning on a global scale.

Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at a global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Learning Design and Supply Operations to define and refine Preply’s teaching quality standards and develop a strategy to ensure tutor quality grows measurably, quarter by quarter, for both language and non-language subjects.
• Lead the pedagogical, content, and assessment strategy for our Initial Tutor Training program, ensuring it is best in class and appealing to one-to-one tutors globally.
• Continuously analyze teaching quality metrics and optimize tutor development content and strategy to enhance growth in teaching quality.
• Commission appropriate tutor development content and hire/train SMEs across subject areas, ensuring that tutor development programs set tutors up for success.
• Develop the Tutor Academy strategy, including pedagogical content, roadmap, and defining delivery methods, and contribute to the agenda and delivery for our annual Tutor Conference and regular webinar schedule.
• Develop assessment content and delivery strategy for tutor development programs with the Supply Engagement Team.
• Develop specific teaching strategies and assessment and course content requirements to meet client needs with our B2B Team.
• Align the strategy for future tutor development curriculum with the Learning Design team, ensuring it is aligned with the strategy for self-learning curriculum and in-lesson feature development.
• Work with the Customer Experience Team on the development of specific development content in relation to the teaching of children.
• Act as a thought leader on tutor development internally and externally, helping to raise the perception of Preply as a leader in tutor and teaching quality.

Requirements

• Significant experience in tutor development, ideally within an edtech or tutoring marketplace setting or within a well-respected training institution.
• Experience in designing and delivering high-quality tutor development at scale.
• Strong previous experience delivering one-to-one training in an online environment.
• Strong network in tutor development circles and demonstrable thought leadership around teaching quality.
• Excellent, inspiring communicator with deep facilitation skills and understanding of how to engage learners in online environments.
• Comfortable building video-based training content.
• Comfortable using AI tools to create learning content at scale.
• Comfortable using data tools (e.g., Amplitude, Looker) to evaluate performance and continuously improve learning impact.
• Confident working with subject matter experts and cross-functional teams (Product, Comms, Data) to build targeted, high-quality courses.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to Have

• Experience in global language tutoring marketplaces, ideally in cross-functional product or operations environments.
• Experience with tutor development for language subjects.
• Experience with tutor development for teaching young children.
• Experience with delivering training or tutor development for corporates.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance teaching and educator development or to develop content.
• Experience building partnerships with external providers, e.g., assessment, certification, or validation of training quality.
• Proficiency in additional languages (especially Spanish).

We Offer

• 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.
• Not in Barcelona or London? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub.
• 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!).

About the Company

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.