Principal Product Manager

Description

Summary: Seeking a senior Product IC to lead strategic initiatives, clarify ambiguous problems, and elevate product thinking across the organization. Highlights: 1. Operate as the most senior IC in Product, leading strategic bets. 2. Raise the bar for product thinking across the team. 3. Influence direction and make others better through leadership without authority. **Lingokids is on a mission to help families raise amazing kids through Playlearning. Ready to join us on this exciting journey?** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lingokids is a global leader in educational technology, helping over **185 million families** worldwide raise amazing kids through **Playlearning**,our unique approach that blends education with play. Our mission is to empower children with modern learning experiences, combining educational subjects with essential life skills to help them grow into confident, conscious, and resilient lifelong learners. Beyond our award\-winning app, we’ve built a **multi\-platform educational universe**, including our **“*****Baby Bot”*** **and “*****Baby Bot’s Backyard Tales”*** **shows, Podcasts, and Music Publishing**. Our content, developed in collaboration with top education experts and Oxford Press University, ensures an engaging, high\-quality learning experience in a **safe, ad\-free environment**. This dedication to excellence has earned Lingokids multiple industry awards across app, podcast, and video categories, including **Best Original Learning App by Kidscreen Awards, National Parenting Product Awards by NAPPA Awards, and Best Parenting Product by Good Housekeeping,** among many others! #### **If you want to be part of a team that's redefining the future of education, we’d love to hear from you!** **What you'll do:** ------------------- * Operate as the most senior IC in Product, working horizontally across the company's most important strategic bets and ensuring they reinforce each other rather than compete. * Connect the dots between these bets that no single team sees on their own; where a decision in one area creates risk or opportunity in another. * Frame the highest\-stakes product decisions facing the company. Bring clarity to ambiguous problems and help the organization make better bets, especially when the data doesn't give a clean answer. * Partner with the VP of Product as a strategic thought partner on company\-level product direction. * Go deep when it matters; shaping a critical flow, pressure\-testing a team's strategy, or reframing how we think about a problem. * Raise the bar for product thinking across the team through your own practice. **What you'll bring:** ---------------------- * Proven track record of driving measurable business outcomes across multiple product areas, not just shipping features, but owning the metrics that matter and demonstrating clear impact on growth, retention, or revenue. You've been the person leadership turns to when a problem spans boundaries. * Experience navigating major product inflection points: repositioning a product, scaling through a growth phase, or rethinking a value proposition; not just optimizing what already existed. * Experience leading without authority: you've influenced direction, raised the bar for teams around you, and made others better, whether or not they reported to you. We're not just looking for someone who manages well; we're looking for someone others naturally follow. * Exceptional communication skills that flex across audiences: able to inspire a company\-wide audience with compelling storytelling around product vision, and equally able to break down a complex problem into a clear, actionable plan for the teams doing the work. You write and present with precision and clarity. * Experience managing complex, cross\-functional stakeholder environments: able to create alignment across engineering, design, data, content, and business teams, and move forward decisively even when there isn't full consensus. * Strong analytical foundation paired with sharp product and UX instincts: you can go deep on data to inform decisions, but you also fight for delightful user experiences and won't settle for "the numbers say it's fine" when the experience feels wrong. * Ability to operate with high autonomy: comfortable making judgment calls, escalating the right things, and owning outcomes without needing close direction. #### **Must have:** * Experience in mobile\-first consumer products. * Experience with subscription or freemium business models. * Experience working in a scaling startup environment where the organization is still evolving and you need to build as you go. #### **Nice to have:** * Background in the kids/family space or dual\-audience products where the user and the buyer are different people. * Exposure to content partnerships, licensed IP, or entertainment/gaming products. **English is a must:** We’re a multicultural team providing a service in **English**, so while certifications aren’t necessary, fluency is essential. As a fully remote company, clear and effective **spoken and written communication**, especially in asynchronous and long\-form formats, is key to collaborating successfully. ##### **Life at Lingokids:** **Career Growth:** Your growth drives our success! We invest in your development up to **€2,000 per year** for books and training; so you can keep learning and growing with us. **Remote\-Friendly:** Work from where you’re most productive, home or our offices in Madrid, anywhere within a **2\-hour difference from Spain (GMT\+1\)**. The choice is yours! **Stock Options:** Your contribution matters! You'll receive **stock options**, giving you the opportunity to own part of the company and share in its success. **Home Office Setup:** Create your ideal workspace with a **€400 allowance** for setup and **€35/month** for remote work expenses, because comfort fuels creativity! **Meal Allowances:** Get **€60/month** on your Cobee card to enjoy meals at restaurants or food delivery, good food makes everything better! **Flexible Compensation:** Manage your **meal, transport and childcare expenses** easily with **Cobee**, integrating them directly into your payroll. **Health Insurance**: Access **private health coverage** at exclusive rates through Adeslas, seamlessly deducted from your payroll, quality care made simple. **Language Lessons:** Learning never stops! Enjoy **free language classes** in Spanish and English, to sharpen your skills and stay connected in a global team. **Visa Sponsorship:** If you need a **visa to work in the EU**, we’ll handle the process and cover the costs to make your transition seamless. **Company events**: Yes! We’re a fully remote team spread across different countries, but we love getting together from time to time in different corners of Spain, for team gatherings and recharging at our amazing off\-sites! ### **Passion matters more than perfection** Didn’t check every box for this role? No worries! We’re looking for passionate, driven individuals who believe in our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d still love to hear from you! ### **Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion** At Lingokids, diversity isn’t just a checkbox—it’s at the heart of everything we do. Just like we teach kids to embrace differences, we celebrate them in our team, knowing that the best ideas come from unique perspectives. We’re all about creating a space where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to be their authentic selves. No matter your background, identity, or story, if you’re passionate about making a difference in education, we want you here.