Headway Inc is a global tech company, revolutionizing lifelong learning by creating digital products for over 170 million users worldwide. Our mission is to help people grow. We’re proud to be ranked 4th among the World’s Top EdTech Сompanies by TIME magazine. We believe lifelong learning should be accessible, personalized, and impactful to each individual. That’s how we change the world and why we bring together exceptional minds.
The core of our achievements is our team. We believe in people and shared values SELECT. That’s why, together with Oleksandra Khilienko, Head of Globalization at Headway Inc, we’re looking for a Globalization Product Manager to make sure every product we ship feels like it was built for the market it lands in.
The team you’ll be working with
This is a role that touches almost everything we ship globally. You’ll sit at the intersection of product management, user research, and linguistic strategy — working across product, engineering, design, and marketing, alongside the native-language reviewers who keep our products feeling local. Globalization at Headway isn’t bolted on at the end of the pipeline; it’s built into how products are made from the ground up. Your decisions will shape the experience of millions of users across very different languages, cultures, and markets.
You won’t be starting from a blank page. There’s a north star, a roadmap, real infrastructure, strong relationships with product teams and linguistic experts, and hard-won market knowledge. Your job is to run with all of that — investigate, form sharp hypotheses, and make the system meaningfully better where it counts.
This role is your calling if you
Think in systems but act with precision — holding a multi-market picture in your head while staying focused on what actually ships.
Are genuinely curious about how people in different cultures think, click, and decide and read nuance without defaulting to assumptions.
Are as comfortable in a data dashboard as in a conversation with a reviewer about translation tone.
Make sound calls with incomplete information, then iterate fast — ambiguity energizes you.
Balance linguistic quality with business reality — you know when to trade polish for speed.
Get global work prioritized by teams you don’t manage, through credibility rather than a title.
Move fluidly between strategy and operations, and improve things proportionately — fixing what’s actually broken and leaving what works.
Believe great globalization is invisible — every market should feel the product was made for them.
What you’ll do
Drive the globalization roadmap and push it upstream, so it’s built in from the start, not bolted on.
Turn market and user research into clear recommendations — what to commission, change, or localize — and partner with product teams and GMs who make the final call.
Make our products feel native in every market, including the genuinely complex ones, and grow original, locally-authored content.
Turn global behavioral data into real product and localization decisions and own the analytics that show they landed.
Set the bar for UX localization and linguistic quality across teams you don’t manage.
Strengthen the systems behind it: AI-assisted translation pipelines, vendor and reviewer programs, and the tooling that keeps globalization fast and reliable.
Experiment with AI as a core part of the job — spot the right use cases, run small measurable tests, weigh quality and brand risk, and evolve workflows as the technology does.
Who you might be
We’re open to two kinds of backgrounds:
The globalization expert ready to think like a product person — you know the craft (workflows, linguistic quality, experts, vendors, tools) and want to move beyond service delivery into product contribution.
The product manager ready to go deep on globalization — strong product judgment and analytical instincts, genuine curiosity about cultures and international users, and happy to roll up your sleeves fo
