Growth Product Manager: Retention & DAU Strategy

Duolingo; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Product Manager to lead a new Growth team, owning strategy and execution to improve user retention and engagement. You will collaborate with design, writing, and engineering to ship high-impact features, run fast experiments, and translate learnings into scalable product strategy.

The role requires strong analytical judgment and a bias for rapid iteration. The role emphasizes ownership from ideation to launch, with a focus on DAU-driven growth and cross-functional impact

Qualifications

• Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager on a consumer mobile product.
• Significant experience working on growth or growth-adjacent product surfaces, ideally owning DAU/WAU or retention metrics.
• Experience owning product strategy and execution for a growth-related feature, including identifying new opportunities, prioritizing work, and driving launches from concept through iteration.
• Strong product instincts and analytical judgment, with the ability to use experiments and data to make meaningful decisions.
• Ability to independently drive alignment and make progress in ambiguous spaces without waiting to be told what to do.
• Excitement about moving quickly, learning from fast experimentation, and shaping product strategy.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution for a new growth team, from identifying opportunities to shipping and iterating on solutions.
• Drive the team’s roadmap across high-impact workstreams, with DAUs as the north star.
• Lead product features through their full lifecycle: ideation, prioritization, specification, development, launch, analysis, and iteration.
• Work closely with engineers, data scientists, ML/AI partners, product writers, and designers to create more retentive experiences.
• Improve core team metrics such as retention (short and long term), L7, and relevant feature adoption / usage.
• Partner closely with leadership to help shape the direction of one of Duolingo’s top teams for driving top-line impact.

Skills

Product management

Growth

DAU/retention metrics

Experimentation

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Business/Design/Psychology

Advanced degree

Job description

Duolingo is seeking a Product Manager to lead a new Growth team, owning strategy and execution to improve user retention and engagement. You will collaborate with design, writing, and engineering to ship high-impact features, run fast experiments, and translate learnings into scalable product strategy.

The role requires strong analytical judgment and a bias for rapid iteration. The role emphasizes ownership from ideation to launch, with a focus on DAU-driven growth and cross-functional impact