Monetization Engineering Lead — Strategy & Growth

Duolingo; United States; On-site; USD 898,000 - 1,347,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking an engineering leader for monetization to drive strategic direction and execution across subscriptions, ads, and in‑app purchases. You will partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to ship native, high‑quality experiences that balance learner value with monetization performance.

You will own project roadmaps, lead multi‑engineer initiatives, and raise engineering standards to ensure reliability, scalability, and observability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers and monetization systems.
• Track record of multi‑engineer projects in a data‑driven environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication across engineering, product, design, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Co‑lead a cross‑functional pod with Product and Design to define strategy and roadmap for monetization initiatives.
• Ship experiences that feel native to Duolingo while optimizing monetization performance.
• Collaborate with data science and ML teams to design experiments and translate insights into product improvements.
• Own project planning and execution with clear milestones and risk management.
• Set engineering quality standards to improve reliability and maintainability.

Skills

Team leadership

Monetization systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Experimentation program

Data-driven decision making

Tools

StoreKit

Google Play Billing

Job description

Duolingo is seeking an engineering leader for monetization to drive strategic direction and execution across subscriptions, ads, and in‑app purchases. You will partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to ship native, high‑quality experiences that balance learner value with monetization performance.

You will own project roadmaps, lead multi‑engineer initiatives, and raise engineering standards to ensure reliability, scalability, and observability.