Senior Product Manager, Growth

Duolingo; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Product Manager to lead growth initiatives aimed at improving user retention and daily active users. You will own the strategy and execution of a new growth team, collaborating with design, writing, engineering, and data science to deliver engaging experiences.

You will drive end-to-end feature life cycles from ideation to iteration, using experiments and data to inform decisions and scale successful ideas across the user base.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager for a consumer mobile product.
• Ownership of growth-related features with retention metrics.
• Strong product instincts and data-driven decision making.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous spaces and drive alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution for a new growth team, shipping and iterating on solutions.
• Drive the team road map across high-impact workstreams with DAUs as the north star.
• Lead features through ideation, prioritization, development, launch, analysis, and iteration.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, ML/AI partners, writers, and designers to improve retention.
• Improve core metrics like retention and feature adoption.
• Partner with leadership to shape direction of a top Duolingo team.

Skills

PM experience

Growth product

DAU/WAU focus

Cross-functional alignment

Experimentation

Analytical judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!

Our Product Managers (PMs) have ownership over product optimizations and features, from independently run experiments to major product decisions. Backed by strong analytical skills and business acumen, and inspired by access to senior leadership and transparency into how they make product decisions, our PMs develop insights that lead to new product ideas and Duolingo’s next beloved feature.

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

About The Role

Come and be a product lead within our Growth Pillar. Growth is core to our mission at Duolingo; helping users find and build a habit with language learning is tied to our ability to make the product fun and engaging every single day. We work on a wide variety of features that build and strengthen habits, like streaks, quests, leaderboards, notifications, and are always inventing new features to address user needs.

You’ll own product strategy and execution across a broad set of opportunities to improve our user retention, with an eye towards DAUs as our north star. Our app is extremely visual, so you’ll work closely with Product Design and Product Writing to make sure users understand and appreciate any new feature, and you’ll work closely with Engineering to understand how we bring it to life. We’re looking for someone who can work cross-functionally to develop new ideas, run fast experiments, and turn what we learn into product strategy that helps more learners build lasting habits.

You will

• 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

You have

• 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

Exceptional candidates will have

• Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
• Experience working on consumer products with high-frequency engagement loops (e.g., health, wellness, fitness, mobile games)
• Strong judgment for how to balance short and long term retention, particularly in a freemium app with monetization (either IAPs or subscriptions) as a guardrail

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

Salary Range

$182,800—$247,300 USD

Benefits

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Accommodations

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Duolingo 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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