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# Staff Product Manager (Platform)

- **Company:** Preply Inc.
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £74,988.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Computer Literacy, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5885927150

## About the Role

* Strong product thinking combined with technical literacy in software engineering, developer tooling, or systems
 * Experience working with highly technical internal products (platforms, tooling, infra, or developer-facing systems)
 * Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and conflicting priorities
 * Proven ability to challenge priorities and drive alignment across internal stakeholders
 * A bias for leverage, defaults, and standards, grounded in the belief that standardization unlocks creativity
 * Solid conceptual understanding of/familiarity with:
 + Cloud platforms and infrastructure
 + Modern distributed systems
 + Trade-offs between Reliability vs velocity, Abstraction vs flexibility, Standardization vs team autonomy
 + SLOs, DORA metrics, and cost efficiency metrics.
 * Ability to review and challenge technical RFCs and architecture proposals at a conceptual, outcome-oriented level
 * Nice-to-have: prior hands-on experience as a software engineer or Engineering Manager before transitioning into Product

## Description

The role focuses on defining and evolving paved paths used by engineering teams, translating engineering constraints into clear product decisions, and measuring and reducing developer friction. You will also drive the adoption of platform capabilities and navigate hard trade-offs between flexibility and standardization.
What you'll be doing:

 * Maintain product charters for platform products, including users, problem statements, non-goals, and success metrics
 * Define and own the vision, roadmap, and OKRs for core platform capabilities
 * Identify and prioritize developer pain points using qualitative and quantitative signals with the focus on impact
 * Translate platform needs into clear product requirements and priorities
 * Partner with engineering to evaluate technical trade-offs and solutions, focusing on scalable platform capabilities rather than custom solutions for individual teams
Drive adoption of platform standards across teams

 * Define and track success metrics such as developer productivity, reliability, and cost efficiency
 * Align platform investments with company growth and scaling goals
 * Run discovery through developer interviews, Dev Experience surveys, support interruptions, incident reviews, and platform metrics (e.g. DORA, CI/CD reliability)
 * Lead migrations and deprecations with empathy, clarity, and consistency
 * Work closely with EMs and Staff+ engineers, spending most of your time embedded with engineering teams


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