The Role
As the Director of International Growth, you'll develop and execute global growth strategies, manage P&L accountability, and collaborate across teams to drive international market expansion.
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About Quizlet:
At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Our $1B+ learning platform serves tens of millions of students every month, including two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers and half of U.S. college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly.
We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
Let’s Build the Future of Learning
Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential.
About the Role:
We’re hiring a proactive, hands-on Director of International Growth to develop, own and execute the next phase of our global growth strategy. With nearly two decades of successful product market fit, we're now seeking a hands-on leader to accelerate our global growth.
You’ll take a strong foundation and increase growth by partnering across teams to develop measurable international growth plans across markets, channels, and products. This is an exciting, hands-on, individual contributor role where you’ll align on market profiles, shape the international business strategy, own a lean P&L, and drive your own execution. You will also collaborate closely across marketing, product, and content teams to deliver results. You’ll turn an existing and healthy international footprint into scaled growth—fast.
As our international leader and subject matter expert, you'll identify and prioritize the highest-opportunity markets, lead the international go-to-market initiatives, and partner with product teams to shape how we localize, monetize and scale engagement globally. You’ll ensure that our international growth strategy is aligned, operationalized, resourced, kept top of mind, and delivering results across the company.
We’re happy to share that this is an onsite position in our San Francisco office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency, team partnership, and supports growth as an employee and organization.
In this role, you will:
- Own and execute an international growth strategy end-to-end
- Drive lean P&L-level accountability for global markets
- Deliver on aggressive growth targets in partnership with cross functional teams
- Prioritize markets based on TAM, strategic fit, monetization potential, and other factors
- Align on user profiles, market selection, and international business goals
- Develop and manage monthly, quarterly, annual, and multi-year growth plans and targets
- Identify strongest international growth levers, develop requirements and prioritize them cross-functionally across GTMs, product roadmaps, and monetization strategies
- Influence LTV, ROI, and performance metrics in partnership with cross-functional teams
- Define and lead localization and content strategies by region
- Develop efficient and collaborative partnership rituals across Product, Marketing, Content, and Finance
- Ensure the international growth strategy and its impact are visible and integrated company-wide
What you bring to the table:
- 7-10+ years of proven experience in international expansion, global growth, or global strategy for consumer technology brands (edtech a plus)
- Strong operator: execution-first, systems thinker, moves fast
- Strategic enough to design and align plans, tactical enough to ship them
- Deep understanding of international consumer markets, growth levers, and localization
- Technical fluency in international payments and digital product systems
- Data-driven, analytical, and outcome-oriented
- Comfortable with ambiguity, autonomy, and working at speed
- Excellent collaborator and influencer across teams without formal authority
Bonus points if you have:
- Highly execution-focused: gets things done with minimal oversight
- Systems thinker: connects insights, data, products, channels, and workflows
- Strategic + proactive: drives alignment and follow-through
- Technically fluent: especially in payments, monetization, and edtech platforms
- Analytical + data-informed: prioritizes based on insight, not opinion
- Adaptable + agile: thrives in a fast-moving environment
- Collaborative influencer: aligns teams and moves work forward without disruption
- Hands-on: Practical, scrappy, business owner mindset
Compensation, Benefits & Perks:
- Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Salary transparency helps to mitigate unfair hiring practices when it comes to discrimination and pay gaps. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $215,000 - $250,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options
- Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance
- 20 vacation days that we expect you to take!
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, Dental, VSP Choice)
- Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth
- Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits
- 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice
Why Join Quizlet?
🌎 Massive reach: 60M+ users, 1B+ interactions per week
🧠 Cutting-edge tech: Generative AI, adaptive learning, cognitive science
📈 Strong momentum: Top-tier investors, sustainable business, real traction
🎯 Mission-first: Work that makes a difference in people’s lives
🤝 Inclusive culture: Committed to equity, diversity, and belonging
We strive to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome!
We work to create a holistic interview process, where both Quizlet and candidates have an opportunity to view what it would be like to work together, in exploring a mutually beneficial partnership.
We provide a transparent setting that gives a comprehensive view of who we are!
In Closing:
At Quizlet, we’re excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don’t check every box on the requirements list. We value unique perspectives and believe everyone has something meaningful to contribute. Our culture is all about taking initiative, learning through challenges, and striving for high-quality work while staying curious and open to new ideas. We believe in honest, respectful communication, thoughtful collaboration, and creating a supportive space where everyone can grow and succeed together.”
Quizlet’s success as an online learning community depends on a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
As an equal opportunity employer and a tech company committed to societal change, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join us!
To All Recruiters and Placement Agencies:
At this time, Quizlet does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and/or profiles.
Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website or to any Quizlet employee. Quizlet will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm nor will it be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. All unsolicited resumes received will be considered the property of Quizlet.
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The Company
What We Do
Quizlet is a leading consumer learning brand that builds learning tools to inspire and empower students and teachers. Our team is already supporting a user base of over 60 million active users a month. We're also among the top 20 U.S. websites and top education apps for iOS and Android - and it's only the beginning. We’re a fast-growing Series C startup, valued at $1 Billion and backed by Union Square Ventures, Costanoa Venture Capital, Icon Ventures, Owl Ventures, Altos Ventures and General Atlantic.
With our massive reach and focus on delivering high-quality innovative learning tools, we're having a major global impact on education.
