Senior Engineering Manager, Language Learning

United States Digital Space LLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 204,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

the company in the United States is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Short Form Experience Team of seven engineers. You will guide features in core learning experiences and partner with PM, design, and data science to ship high‑impact, data‑driven improvements.

You will drive execution, mentor engineers, and maintain a healthy culture while delivering measurable learning outcomes. Relocation to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY is expected for the role.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and growing a software engineering team.
• Track record of shipping multi‑engineer projects with measurable business impact.
• Strong product instincts in data‑driven environments and experience with analytics partners.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across teams.

Responsibilities

• Co‑lead a cross‑functional team with partners in product management and align on strategy and success metrics.
• Drive project execution from spec to implementation, with reliability and observability.
• Use data and experiments to inform decisions and translate insights into product improvements.
• Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent and foster a healthy team culture.
• Set engineering quality standards and manage tech debt and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver user‑facing experiences.
• Define team OKRs and remove roadblocks to enable best work.

Skills

Team leadership

Shipping complex projects

Data‑driven decisions

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring engineers

Architectural guidance

Tools

A/B testing tools

Data analytics

Job description

Our mission at the company is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At the company, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data‑driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world‑class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.

Join our life‑changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role

As an engineering manager and team lead of the Short Form Experience Team, you'll manage a team of 7 engineers to build features that make up the core of the learning experience on the company.

Our short‑form lessons are where learners spend the majority of their time on the app, and this team's mission is to make these sessions more effective and engaging. Your team will work on adding new exercises that support our learners in practicing skills like recall and production in bite‑sized formats, as well as creating other ways to help learners build foundational skills in a new language.

We're looking for managers who are passionate about improving how we teach while leading engineers in a highly cross‑functional team!

You will

• Co‑lead a cross‑functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that help us teach better.
• Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Use data and rapid experimentation to inform decisions; partner with internal stakeholders to design A/B tests and translate insights into product improvements that measurably impact learning KPIs.
• Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
• Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long‑term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver user experiences that serve user needs while being impactful towards business metrics.
• Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.

You have

• Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.
• A track record of shipping multi‑engineer, multi‑week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.
• Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data‑driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.
• Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade‑offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.
• The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

Exceptional candidates will have

• Experience leading cross‑functional product‑focused teams in consumer products.
• Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company‑level metrics.
• Background dealing with ambiguity and managing broad‑scoped projects.

Salary Range

$204,000 — $306,000 USD

Benefits

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Accommodations

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact [e-mail].

Equal Employment Opportunity

the company is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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