Head of Experimentation Platform Engineering

Duolingo; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 204,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Manager and Team Lead for the Experiments Team to oversee the A/B testing system powering our product development lifecycle. You will manage our in-house Experiment Platform responsible for defining experiments, executing them in the app, and measuring outcomes, while remaining connected to product decisions.

You will lead and scale a team of engineers, collaborate with product and platform teams, and drive improved experimentation capabilities and faster feature shipping

Qualifications

• Experience leading and building a software engineering team.
• Track record of scalable infrastructure and large datasets.
• Experience with A/B testing and experiment infrastructure.
• Strong cross-functional leadership between product and platform teams.
• Willingness to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• Expand capabilities of the Experiment Platform for advanced A/B tests and statistical methods.
• Empower teams to confidently evaluate metrics and gate access to new functionality.
• Shape the future of accelerated feature shipping by enabling improved experiment automation and backend-based control.
• Scale the Experiment Platform to handle higher experiment velocity in a cost-efficient manner.
• Partner with product teams to devise measurement strategies for complex product scenarios.
• Shape the Duolingo product lifecycle through A/B testing.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

A/B testing

Cross-functional leadership

Location flexibility

Experiment Platform

Tools

Experiment Platform

Job description

Duolingo is seeking a Manager and Team Lead for the Experiments Team to oversee the A/B testing system powering our product development lifecycle. You will manage our in-house Experiment Platform responsible for defining experiments, executing them in the app, and measuring outcomes, while remaining connected to product decisions.

You will lead and scale a team of engineers, collaborate with product and platform teams, and drive improved experimentation capabilities and faster feature shipping