Senior Product Manager, Notifications & Growth

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

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Product Lead for the Notifications Team to own strategy and execution across opportunities for more effective, engaging notifications. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, ML/AI professionals, designers, and writers to ship fast experiments and translate learnings into strategy.

You’ll drive roadmap across new notification types, opt-in reach, email, and alternative channels, continually improving metrics while balancing reach and user experience.

Qualifications

• Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager on a consumer mobile product.
• Significant experience with notifications or adjacent lifecycle surfaces.
• Experience owning product strategy and execution for notifications, including identifying new opportunities, prioritizing work, and driving launches from concept through iteration.
• Experience improving notification performance across areas such as new notification types, opt-in, reach, targeting, or channel strategy.
• Strong judgment for how to make notifications more engaging and effective while balancing user experience and long-term reachability.
• Experience working on personalized or ML-driven messaging systems, including targeting, ranking, experimentation, or template generation.
• Strong product instincts and analytical judgment, with the ability to use experiments and data to make meaningful decisions.

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 expertise

ML/AI familiarity

Experimentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Experimentation platforms

Product analytics tools

Job description

Duolingo is seeking a Product Lead for the Notifications Team to own strategy and execution across opportunities for more effective, engaging notifications. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, ML/AI professionals, designers, and writers to ship fast experiments and translate learnings into strategy.

You’ll drive roadmap across new notification types, opt-in reach, email, and alternative channels, continually improving metrics while balancing reach and user experience.