Senior Director, Data Science and Analytics in London

• Senior Director, Data Science and Analytics
• Organisation Preply
• Application Deadline: 3 days remaining
• Set the strategy for Data Science & Analytics across Product Analytics, Marketing, Business Analytics, and Data Science, ensuring the team is focused on Preply’s highest-impact growth, marketplace, learning, and AI-enabled opportunities
• Lead and scale a high-performing organisation of around 35 people today, growing to 40–45, with clear expectations for quality, impact, leadership, hiring, development, and accountability
• Turn data into business impact by partnering with senior leaders to shape product, marketplace, marketing, and financial decisions that improve conversion, retention, monetisation, learner outcomes, tutor success, and long-term value
• Raise the bar on experimentation and measurement, helping Preply make high-quality decisions in complex environments where impact can be hard to measure
• Strengthen commercial and marketing decision-making through better measurement of acquisition quality, incrementality, lifetime value, payback, and budget allocation.
• Build scalable standards and ways of working for trusted metrics, consistent decision-making, high-quality analysis, and strong collaboration with Data Platform, Analytics Engineering, Experimentation, and Applied AI teams.
• Lead AI-powered self‑serve analytics to turn trusted metrics, analysis workflows and business context into AI‑enabled data products, helping the business use data to make faster, better decisions
• What You Need To Succeed
• Senior leadership experience leading analytics and data science teams in a high-growth product, marketplace, subscription, consumer, or other digital business, with at least 7+ years leading analytics or experimentation organisations - managing managers
• Strong business and strategic judgement, with the ability to connect data to company strategy, influence senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and make clear trade‑offs.
• Ideally having experience working closely together with finance and business teams
• 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, with the technical judgement to evaluate quality, ask the right questions, and raise standards across teams.
• Commercial and marketing analytics depth, including experience with incrementality, attribution, acquisition quality, payback, lifetime value, and budget recommendations.
• Proven ability to build and raise the bar for senior teams, including hiring, developing managers and senior ICs, setting expectations, improving performance, and creating a culture of high standards and accountability.
• Technical leadership, you must be able to challenge assumptions, raise standards, and ensure the organisation is making high‑quality, evidence‑based decisions that translate into measurable business impact.
• 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 health support platforms;
• The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).
• 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.
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