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Preply

Director of IT

Preply

Director of IT leading strategic vision and automation at Preply. Transforming education through AI-enhanced learning and effective IT operations supporting global scale.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeBarcelona • 🇪🇸 SpainLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Jamf

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Build dashboards and reporting that give leadership a clear, current view of IT health, spend, and the status of every initiative.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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? 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;