Senior Product Recruiter

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Lead Recruiter to own product hiring, partnering with the Chief Product Officer to build an exceptional talent pipeline. You'll manage the full recruitment cycle for Product roles, influencing hiring strategy and fostering a superior candidate experience.

The ideal candidate has over 7 years of recruiting experience, particularly in Product roles, and is skilled in data-driven hiring. The position is based in New York, NY, with a flexible onsite schedule.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a focus on Product hiring.
• Experience partnering closely with senior leaders to shape org strategy.
• Strong data fluency to drive pipeline metrics and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Product roles from ICs to senior leaders.
• Shape hiring strategy with the CPO, prioritizing roles and defining talent.
• Use data to communicate pipeline health and insights to leadership.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting experience

Data fluency

Strong judgment

Experience with senior leaders

Ability to work onsite in New York

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 that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

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

About the role

We're looking for a Lead Recruiter to own product hiring at Duolingo — partnering directly with our Chief Product Officer to build and shape the Product org from the ground up. This isn't just executing on a req list. You'll help define what great looks like, influence how we think about product talent, and build the processes and relationships that make hiring a competitive advantage. If you love blending strategy with hands‑on execution, operating at the intersection of recruiting and business, and leaving your fingerprints on a world‑class team, this is the role for you.

You will

• Own full‑cycle recruiting for Product roles at all levels — ICs to senior leaders — building deep pipelines and consistently closing top talent.
• Be a true partner to the CPO, shaping hiring strategy, prioritizing roles, and helping define what great Product talent looks like at Duolingo.
• Lead and influence without direct authority, working across recruiting, sourcing, and business stakeholders to align processes, calibrate expectations, and drive outcomes.
• Drive sourcing strategy (roughly 25–30% of your time), going beyond inbound to build proactive outreach for senior and hard‑to‑fill roles.
• Use data to tell the story — diagnosing pipeline health, surfacing insights to leadership, and making decisions that balance speed with quality.
• Champion the candidate experience from first touch to offer close, making sure every interaction reflects Duolingo's brand and values.
• Build the infrastructure — whether that’s interview frameworks, leveling guidance, or hiring playbooks — that scales beyond you.

You have

• Ability to work onsite in New York, NY, Monday–Thursday, with Friday optional
• 7+ years of full‑cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful depth in Product hiring
• Experience partnering closely with senior leaders (VP/C‑suite) to shape org strategy, not just fill seats
• A track record of hiring across levels — from PMs to Directors to VPs — with strong judgment on what “great” looks like at each
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ownership mindset to create structure where it doesn’t exist
• Strong data fluency — you know how to use pipeline metrics to drive conversations and influence decisions

Exceptional candidates will have

• Experience leading or mentoring a recruiting team, even informally
• Deep market knowledge of the Product talent landscape, including how to position Duolingo competitively
• A history of building repeatable hiring systems that improve quality and efficiency at scale
• And, of course, an impressive Duolingo streak.

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 compe