Vice President of Growth

**Speak our language**

**We are Lingoda. Our mission is to build bridges through life-changing language learning.**

Lingoda is a fast-growing online language school offering life changing learning to its students. By fusing human-first teaching, intelligent technology and an expert curriculum, Lingoda provides a guided, seamless and personalised learning experience unmatched by competitors. With Lingoda, you're not just learning — you're teaming up with an expert who understands your goals and guides you to success, every step of the way.

As a company, we share a common interest with those who seek to create a welcoming and inclusive society, knowing that every language lesson is a step towards opportunity and a more connected world. We bring out the best in people with a positive culture. We challenge ourselves, and we challenge others. We work smart and make it happen. We believe in personal growth and inclusion.

We are currently looking for a **Vice President of Growth (all genders)** based in Berlin, or working remotely within Europe or the UK with monthly visits to Berlin

**Your mission with us**:

- Take charge of Lingoda’s established product portfolio of Lingoda Sprint and Lingoda Flex, and in doing so enable Super Serious Learners (SSL) to achieve their language goals and to enable Lingoda to achieve its commercial goals. Identify future growth opportunities outside of the established portfolio.

**Your tasks**:

- Ensure a relevant **value proposition** that drives competitive advantage and growth
- Ensure **P&L delivery** in line with budget and long range plans
- ** Challenge and influence the demand generation strategies** by monitoring KPIs to track progress, identify risks & opportunities, and by identify new marketing channels and revenue streams to drive growth
- ** Challenge and influence the Product, Tech and Digital Education teams´** delivery to constantly optimise towards customer acquisitions and customer lifetime value
- Work closely with all departments, such as Finance, Teachers, Students, Strategy (Pricing & Data), People, and Legal **to align efforts and optimise revenue generation for our products**. Foster strong relationships and effective communication channels across the organisation to ensure the seamless execution of revenue strategies and constantly break down barriers and obstacles in order to achieve the goals

**You bring to Lingoda**:

- ** Customer Centricity**:adept and experienced at creating winning value propositions for customers, own the value proposition to inspire successful acquisition and retention strategies for the SSL
- ** Growth hacker mindset**: Constantly seeking agile, entrepreneurial and innovative strategies to drive profitable growth and achieve targets. Sensitive to underperformance, able to react at pace, using concise and objective arguments to gain support to make tactical changes
- ** Action-orientation **and** results-focused**: A hands-on operator with good instincts for the customer, this role will take charge and ensure great **execution**, making things happen swiftly and efficiently. Recognizes that ideas are commodities and that execution trumps everything. Bias towards action, prioritising doing over excessive contemplation, with an 80% emphasis on execution and a 20% emphasis on analysis
- ** Leadership**: Inspires and leads others through both authority and influence, adept at building and motivating high-performing teams, including stakeholders who do not directly report to them, to collaboratively accomplish shared objectives. Experience in influencing stakeholders outside of your own reporting line to a joint business success
- ** Ambition and drive**: Relentless hunger for success, continuously pursuing ambitious goals and driving the organisation toward growth. Tenacious in the face of challenges, proactively identifies issues, and works towards finding effective solutions without giving up
- ** Data-Driven**: Strong focus on insight-driven decision-making, adept at formulating hypotheses, tracking and analysing results, and leveraging insights to drive growth. Takes **calculated risks** based on data-driven insights to optimise outcomes and seize opportunities
- ** P&L ownership and management**: Proven P&L management skills, effectively managing profit and loss to optimise business outcomes and drive financial success
- ** Effective Communication** and **Project Management**: Excels in clear communication, removing daily barriers, and demonstrates exceptional project management skills to drive collaborative growth initiatives

**What you can expect from Lingoda**:

- Approachable leaders and transparent communication - every voice counts at Lingoda
- Company events and colleagues who are always happy to socialise + budgets towards team building events
- An inclusive environment with great team spirit and passion for languages
- A well-structured and exciting onboarding process to set you up for success
- The pos