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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. Nice to have: * Experience in a remote-first or globally distributed company. * Familiarity with a modern cloud, identity, and endpoint stack (e.g. GCP, AWS, Okta, Jamf, Jira, Confluence, Slack). * A track record of maturing an early-stage IT function into a structured, senior team. * Hands-on experience with office IT: on-site networking, meeting-room AV and video conferencing, and the technology behind off-sites and company events. ## Description You'll lead Preply's IT team: a lean, capable group that keeps a fast-moving, globally distributed company running every day. With strong foundations already in place, the next chapter is about increasing automation, strengthening operational excellence, and evolving IT into a more strategic function. This is the role that will lead that transformation. You'll be both the architect and the hands-on operator: setting the vision and tooling strategy for the whole organization, while staying close enough to the systems to script, automate, and build alongside your team. You'll report into senior technology leadership and work directly with C-level stakeholders to make IT a measurable driver of efficiency, cost control, and employee experience. What you'll be doing: 1. Strategy, vision and business enablement * 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. 2. AI-native operations and automation * 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. * Bring those AI-native ways of working to the rest of the organization, not just to IT. 3. Team leadership and capability maturity * 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. 4. Global infrastructure, fleet and workplace technology * 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. 5. Procurement, software spend and FinOps * Own visibility into what Preply spends on IT, SaaS, and software tools, and help Finance understand, forecast, and plan that spend. * Partner with Finance and Procurement on contracts, renewals, and vendor rationalization. * Drive cost and compliance efficiency: eliminate shadow IT, consolidate overlapping tools, and negotiate from a position of data. 6. Data, dashboards and stakeholder management * Build dashboards and reporting that give leadership a clear, current view of IT health, spend, and the status of every initiative. * Provide crisp, proactive follow-ups on where things stand, so leadership never has to chase. * Manage and influence C-level stakeholders directly, translating technical reality into business decisions. * Make decisions from data, not anecdotes. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Stack Overflow: Community and AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/600-stack-overflow-community-and-ai) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Cloud as the new mainframe: why the cloud hype does not reflect the dev reality](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/797-cloud-as-the-new-mainframe-why-the-cloud-hype-does-not-reflect-the-dev-reality) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Should Tech Managers Be Developers First? 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