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 for the Current User Retention Team, an extraordinary Growth team with a world-changing mission. Duolingo’s core story for the last 13 years has been about consistent user growth, and in the Growth Pillar you’ll be at the heart of it. You’ll work on some of Duolingo’s most famous features, helping build and invent product that drive retention and engagement: the streak, leaderboards, notifications, widgets.
Our Current User Retention team can run upwards of 100 experiments a quarter, meaning that we’re learning what learners respond to at a breakneck pace, not only helping improve the product literally every day but also giving PMs the opportunity to develop a much stronger sense of what works (and what doesn’t). The core of the work in Growth at Duolingo is behavioral science - what helps people build a new habit, to continue learning even when it gets hard, and to go deeper in their learning so that they make real, meaningful progress.
We look to PMs to drive the ideas and opportunities; rarely is our leadership team dictating features for teams to build, and some of our most successful and iconic growth features have been initiatives started by junior and senior PMs alike. At Duolingo, you’ll have the opportunity (and be expected) to chart new paths for growth within the product.
Critical to our growth is that at the core of Duolingo, we’re not a game - we are a learning product. By helping grow and retain users, you’re helping people all over the world learn a language or a skill, gaining new opportunities in life. Improving the lives of millions of learners is a deeply held part of our mission, and your work is critical to achieving that.
Join us at Duolingo and help shape the future of learning, one learner at a time.
🧠 You will…
- Own the team’s roadmap, from idea to execution
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Dig deep into data and external research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Drive product strategy for the team in close partnership with executive leadership
- Partner closely with product designers to ensure a fun, useful user experience in our product
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development, from the feasibility of a new feature to a new affordance that we haven’t taken advantage of yet
- Perform experiment analysis on features to be immediately turned into opportunities for future optimization
- Work fast,
✅ You have…
- Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager at a consumer mobile app
- Experience building and executing on roadmaps that enhance existing features while also creating net new features that have significant impact
- Ability to act independently, driving alignment up and down within the organization without waiting to be told what to do
- Ability to dig into an experiment to identify data and insights that inform meaningful decisions
- Appetite for throughput - you can’t wait to ship the next experiment, both to drive impact and to start learning about how your change impacted the user experience
- Desire to find and assess patterns or features from other apps or games that can be adapted and applied to Duolingo
- Experience working closely with product design to create simple and intuitive user experiences that still ship impact
- Experience leading product teams of engineers, designers and even other PMs
- 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 growth and retention feature sets in mobile games or gamified products
- Experience leading a team that shipped 50+ experiments a quarter
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
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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 [email protected].
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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What We Do
Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages. Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Some of our products include: 1. Duolingo: The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language! 2. DET (Duolingo English Test): A modern language proficiency tool designed for today's international students and institutions. It offers an English proficiency score, video interview, and writing sample in an accessible, efficient, and secure testing experience. 3. Duolingo Math: An app that can make math be fun. For everyone. Students can focus on elementary math, which covers classroom topics, or adults can focus on brain training, which strengthens mental math skills and covers more advanced topics. 4. Duolingo ABC: An educational learning app that offers immersive lessons to teach preschool to second grade kids reading fundamentals. Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best. Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives. Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. Duolingo has been named: 2022 Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022 Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company 2021 Forbes Best Startup Employers 2020, 2018, 2017, 2013 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company 2020 Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor 2018 Inc. Best Places to Work 2018 Entrepreneur Top Company Culture List University Program Awards: 2022 Handshake Early Talent Award 2022 Untapped Top Internship Programs 2022 OneReq Internship Program Trailblazer Award
Why Work With Us
Our global team works together to make language learning fun, free, and effective for anyone who wants to learn, wherever they are. Best of all, you get to work alongside Duo (literally)!
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