Senior Product Manager, Notifications

EngineersOfAI; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Product Manager to lead the Notifications surface within our growth team. You will own strategy and execution for improving how learners receive and engage with notifications, including experiments, opt-in improvements, and exploring channels beyond email.

Collaborate with engineers, data science, ML/AI, design, and product writers to ship features end-to-end, measure impact on retention and engagement, and turn learnings into roadmap priorities.

Qualifications

• Experience driving product strategy and launches for consumer mobile apps.
• Strong background in notifications or lifecycle surfaces.
• Ability to own end-to-end product lifecycle from concept to iteration.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution for a major notifications surface, from identifying opportunities to shipping and iterating on solutions
• Drive the team’s roadmap across high-impact workstreams including new notification types, opt-in and reach, email, and alternative channels
• 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 effective and engaging notifications experiences
• Use experimentation and product intuition to uncover new opportunities, validate ideas quickly, and translate learnings into product strategy
• Improve core team metrics such as conversion, click-through rate, and opt-in, while balancing user reach and experience guardrails
• Explore how new formats, channels, and UX patterns can make notifications more personalized, engaging, and effective for different learners
• Partner closely with leadership to help shape the direction of one of Duolingo’s top teams for driving top-line impact

Skills

Product management

Notifications experience

Cross-functional teamwork

Experimentation

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 Notifications Team, one of Duolingo’s highest-impact Growth teams. Notifications are already among the most important drivers of top-line impact at the company, and we’re investing further in this area as a major lever for driving retention and engagement.

You’ll own product strategy and execution across a broad set of opportunities to make our notifications more effective, more engaging, and more valuable to learners. You’ll help identify new notification types, improve opt-in and reach, and explore how channels like email and other alternatives can play a stronger role in bringing learners back.

This is a highly cross-functional role spanning product, engineering, data science, ML/AI, design, and product writing. You’ll work closely with partners across disciplines 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 major notifications surface, from identifying opportunities to shipping and iterating on solutions
• Drive the team’s roadmap across high-impact workstreams including new notification types, opt-in and reach, email, and alternative channels
• 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 effective and engaging notifications experiences
• Use experimentation and product intuition to uncover new opportunities, validate ideas quickly, and translate learnings into product strategy
• Improve core team metrics such as conversion, click-through rate, and opt-in, while balancing user reach and experience guardrails
• Explore how new formats, channels, and UX patterns can make notifications more personalized, engaging, and effective for different learners
• 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 notifications or adjacent lifecycle surfaces, with a strong understanding of what makes outreach timely, effective, and valuable to users
• Experience owning product strategy and execution for notifications, including identifying new opportunities, prioritizing work, and driving launches from concept through iteration