We are looking for a sharp, structured, and outcome-driven Head of Business Performance & Execution to help Babbel operate at its best.
In this senior role, you’ll be responsible for how we translate strategy into action — leading our OKR and business review processes, ensuring operational follow-through, and enabling high-priority cross-functional initiatives to succeed. You’ll also manage a small but mighty team of project managers and operational problem-solvers, helping the organization set up the right governance, metrics, and systems for performance.
This is a highly cross-functional role with exposure to Executive leadership and impact across both B2C and B2B.
You will:
- Lead Babbel’s strategic planning & performance cadence — including OKRs, target-setting, and Management Business Reviews.
- Provide a clear view of company-wide execution — tracking progress, risks, and interdependencies across teams.
- Partner with Finance, Product, and Data to ensure high-quality performance insights drive business decisions.
- Manage and grow a team of project managers / business operators, responsible for solving cross-cutting challenges (e.g. launching steering committees, rolling out metrics frameworks like DORA, optimizing org-wide processes).
- Run a lightweight, scalable PMO layer, supporting prioritization, initiative tracking, and operational governance.
- Create the structure and tooling for better decision-making and follow-through — without unnecessary process overhead.
- Be a thought partner to senior leaders across the business, helping them connect strategy, people, and performance.
You have:
- 6+ years in Business Operations, Strategy, PMO, or Performance roles in tech/scale-ups
- Experience leading cross-functional execution and/or company-wide planning cycles (OKRs, quarterly business reviews, strategic initiative tracking)
- Strong people leadership skills — able to coach, delegate, and mobilize others
- Exceptional clarity and structure in both thinking and communication
- Comfort with data, dashboards, and decision-support frameworks — ideally with experience working alongside Analytics or FP&A teams
- Track record of setting up governance (e.g. steering committees, program tracking, metric frameworks)
- Comfortable balancing long-term thinking with day-to-day business realities
- Bonus points: Familiarity with DORA metrics, agile ops at scale, or hybrid B2B/B2C environments
Babbel is growing — and with growth comes complexity. This role is about helping us stay aligned, focused, and fast as we scale. You’ll help leadership make smarter decisions, give teams the structure they need to execute, and build a performance muscle that compounds over time.
Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:
- Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical. Plus family and life situation counseling
- Decide how, when and from where you want to work with our flexible working hours and remote friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU) or work from our fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms
- Learn and grow with the internal learning opportunities, and use a yearly learning & development budget for external training. Learn languages with Babbel for free with your full access to Babbel
- Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership
- Be part of our employee communities (such as Femgineers, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events
Diversity at Babbel
As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs. Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. If you have a disability or special need, feel welcome to inform us, so that we can provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.
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What We Do
Babbel is the top-selling language learning platform. Driven by our purpose – to create mutual understanding through language – we build products that help people connect and communicate across cultures. Through self-study lessons with Babbel, instructor-led live classes with Babbel Live, Babbel for Business, our own podcast series, and our magazine, our users can focus on using a new language in real situations with real people. And it works: studies with Yale University, City University of New York, and Michigan State University prove that Babbel gets users to speak with confidence. The key is a blend of humanity and technology. More than 60,000 lessons in 15 languages are hand-crafted by more than 200 linguists, and user behaviour is constantly analysed to shape and improve the learner experience. The Babbel team is as diverse as our content. Based in Berlin, Germany, and New York, USA, 1,000+ Babbelonians from over 80 nationalities represent the diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and perspectives that make each person unique. Building genuine connections with our users is what sets Babbel apart, making it the world's leading language-learning platform with more than 16 million subscriptions sold. Founded in 2007 as the pioneering online language learning platform, we've grown steadily over the years. In 2023, Babbel was honoured with a place on Fast Company's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies, ranking 4th in the Education category
