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Preply

Online language-learning marketplace connecting live tutors

Director B2B Finance

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
London, UK+1 moreMore locations: Barcelona, Spain
HybridHybrid work is indicated for the Barcelona and London locations.
Finance & BankingCorporate Finance & FP&A

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate must have 8–12+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic finance, or business operations in B2B software as a service, marketplaces, or enterprise go-to-market environments.
  • The candidate must have deep fluency in B2B go-to-market metrics, including customer acquisition cost payback, annual contract value, gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, pipeline velocity, magic ratio, and gross margin.
  • The candidate must have a proven track record building financial infrastructure across go-to-market, Legal, Product, and Treasury.
  • The candidate must have hands-on experience with deal desks, pricing, and accounts receivable management.
  • The candidate must actively use artificial intelligence tools to accelerate analysis, build models, and automate reporting.
  • The candidate must be able to communicate effectively across functions and translate financial complexity into decisions.
  • The candidate must be comfortable building frameworks and executing quickly in a globally distributed, high-growth environment.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with the Vice President of Finance and Head of B2B to drive the growth and profitability roadmap, with visibility into annual contract value, gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, and unit economics.
  • Build and own the B2B forecast model covering pipeline-to-revenue conversion, bookings, margin, and cash.
  • Lead financial storytelling for B2B performance across board discussions, investment decisions, and pricing strategy.
  • Introduce artificial intelligence-powered tooling, automated variance analysis, and scalable reporting infrastructure to move financial planning and analysis from manual to predictive.
  • Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations on funnel economics, quota design, and incentive alignment.
  • Own the deal desk, balancing growth, discounting discipline, and legal compliance.
  • Build and maintain a key performance indicator framework connecting pipeline health, bookings, margin, and cash.
  • Formalize contracting, deal governance, and terms of service with Legal.
  • Maintain appropriate contract entities across global markets for tax efficiency and compliance.
  • Integrate Salesforce, enterprise resource planning, and analytics systems into a single source of truth for B2B reporting.
  • Champion artificial intelligence-native workflows, including prompt-driven analysis and automated data pipelines, to improve the team's analytical capabilities.

About the company

Preply is an online language-learning marketplace that connects learners with live tutors for 90+ languages across 180 countries. Through the platform, students can choose a language, browse tutors, schedule lessons, and receive video-based instruction from tutors around the world. Lessons are supported by an AI co-pilot toolkit that helps with practice, personalization, and learning data to aid the tutoring process. What sets Preply apart is its large, global network of more than 100,000 tutors, a broad language catalog, and a focus on combining human teaching with AI-assisted tools, backed by strong funding and profitability signals (it became EBITDA-positive) and a recent €127 million Series D to expand AI/data capabilities, product and engineering hiring, and global growth. The company’s goal is to make language learning accessible and effective for learners anywhere by scaling high-quality tutoring worldwide and enhancing it with AI-driven tools.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$321.9M

Headquarters

Brookline, Massachusetts

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • January 2026 funding gave Preply $150 million for AI and global expansion.
  • May 2026 tender offered employees liquidity at the same $1.2 billion valuation.
  • September 2026 research kept pushing 1:1 tutoring over self-study apps.

What critics are saying

  • June 2, 2026 outage took Preply offline for 28 minutes, exposing reliability risk.
  • Kyiv's 150-person office faces Russian strikes, sheltering, and power outages.
  • If learners accept AI-only speaking practice, Preply's tutor marketplace loses its reason to exist.

What makes Preply unique

  • Preply owns live, one-on-one tutoring across 90+ languages and 180 countries.
  • January 2026 Series D validated a human-led marketplace, not a content library.
  • AI copilots summarize lessons, generate homework, and improve tutor matching.

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Health Insurance

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Mental Health Support

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PR Newswire
Oct 14th, 2026
Preply hires ex-Stitch Fix, Rubrik people chief and Duolingo data head after $150M Series D

Preply, the online language learning marketplace, has hired two senior executives in the US. Lillian Reaume joins as chief people officer, and Bilal Zia joins as vice president of data science and analytics. Reaume previously held the same role at Stitch Fix and Rubrik, and worked at Amazon. Zia was head of data science and analytics at Duolingo and has also worked at Amazon and the World Bank. The hires follow a $150M Series D round led by WestCap earlier this year, which valued Preply at $1.2 billion. The company connects learners in 180 countries with more than 150,000 tutors teaching over 90 languages. "Their leadership across people and data will be essential as we scale globally and strengthen our presence in the US," said Kirill Bigai, co-founder and chief executive officer.

WhalesBook Private Limited
Aug 23rd, 2026
Preply hits $1.2B valuation with $150M Series D, achieving EBITDA profitability

Preply has achieved unicorn status with a $1.2 billion valuation following a $150 million Series D funding round. The online language learning marketplace connects over 100,000 tutors with learners in 180 countries and reported turning EBITDA positive in the 12 months prior to the funding. The company remains private and is not listed on any stock exchange. Unlike traditional EdTech platforms, Preply operates as a marketplace between independent tutors and students, avoiding the high costs of proprietary content creation. The platform faces operational risks including competition from AI and automated translation tools. A significant portion of its operations and workforce is based in Kyiv, Ukraine, creating potential business continuity concerns. Quality control across its decentralised tutor network also requires constant oversight.

Preply
May 4th, 2026
Inside Preply’s First Employee Tender: How Equity Turned Into Real Value

Preply shares how its first employee tender gave staff early access to equity value, with insights from leadership and employees on why it matters.

PR Newswire
Jan 21st, 2026
Preply raises $150M at $1.2B valuation for AI-enhanced, human-led language learning

Preply, the global language learning marketplace, has raised $150 million in a Series D round led by WestCap, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. Goldman Sachs International acted as sole placement agent. The platform connects over 100,000 tutors with students in 180 countries, offering one-on-one lessons in more than 90 languages. Preply combines human tutoring with AI-powered tools, with research showing students progress up to three times faster than average benchmarks. The Preply 2025 Efficiency Study found 96% of learners consider human tutoring essential for progress. Since its Series C round, Preply has more than tripled its bookable tutors and added 40 new languages whilst achieving positive EBITDA. The funding will expand AI capabilities and accelerate global growth. Total funding now stands at approximately $299 million.

PR Newswire
Jan 21st, 2026
Preply Raises $150 Million to Shape the Future of Education through Human-Led, AI-Enhanced Learning

/PRNewswire/ -- Preply, the #1 global language learning marketplace, today announced the closing of its Series D round, securing $150 million in funding led by...