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...
Duolingo’s business runs on two numbers: Daily Active Users and revenue. This role owns both. As VP of Product for Growth and Monetization, you'll lead our largest product organization through a team of experienced pillar leads. Your teams shape how learners come back every day and why they choose to pay. You'll run one of the highest-velocity experimentation engines in consumer tech, with a mandate to grow DAUs and revenue sustainably and never at the expense of learners. This role reports to the Chief Product Officer, joins Duolingo's Product Leadership and Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and is based in New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid (4+1) schedule.
🧠 You will...
- Own DAUs and revenue, Duolingo's two hero metrics, and deliver both against forecast.
- Manage the pillar leads who run Growth and Monetization, an org of roughly 20 PMs and our largest.
- Coach and develop senior product leaders, and raise the bar for product talent across the company.
- Partner with Engineering and Design leadership to make clear tradeoffs and ship quickly.
- Build world-class product operating mechanisms: Clear north star metrics, planning and review rituals, and rigorous A/B testing.
- Allocate resources across Growth and Monetization, balancing steady optimization with bigger swings.
- Be the single voice for Growth and Monetization at the executive level: progress, risks, and the plan to hit both numbers.
✅ You have...
- Executive product leadership in consumer tech, with multi-year measurable impact on DAUs or revenue at scale.
- High judgment and operational rigor, with a record of hitting forecasts without sacrificing user experience.
- A track record of leading managers of managers and developing strong product leaders.
- Experience leading through change: reorgs, new operating models, faster execution.
- Cross-functional range, aligning Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Marketing on clear priorities.
- Deep fluency in growth and monetization for freemium and subscription products, grounded in experimentation.
- Ability to work from or relocate to New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid (4+1) schedule.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Delivered stellar results growing a leading consumer app, whether in DAUs or revenue.
- Demonstrated success balancing user growth and revenue expansion without degrading core user experience in a mission-driven product.
- Experience communicating product strategy and results to executive and board-level audiences.
- Developed product leaders who've gone on to run product orgs of their own.
- Familiarity with ads, subscriptions, and in-app purchase ecosystems, including experimentation at scale across these surfaces.
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!
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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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Skills Required
- Executive product leadership experience in consumer technology
- Multi-year measurable impact on daily active users or revenue at scale
- High judgment and operational rigor, with a record of hitting forecasts without sacrificing user experience
- Experience leading managers of managers and developing strong product leaders
- Experience leading through organizational change, including reorganizations, new operating models, and faster execution
- Cross-functional experience aligning Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Marketing
- Deep fluency in growth and monetization for freemium and subscription products, grounded in experimentation
- Ability to work from or relocate to New York, New York or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on a hybrid schedule
- Results growing a leading consumer application in daily active users or revenue
- Success balancing user growth and revenue expansion without degrading core user experience
- Experience communicating product strategy and results to executive and board-level audiences
- Experience developing product leaders who progressed to run product organizations
- Familiarity with advertising, subscription, and in-app purchase ecosystems, including experimentation at scale
Duolingo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Duolingo and has not been reviewed or approved by Duolingo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core engineering and product roles, with required jurisdictions showing posted ranges and immigration filings implying a strong base-salary floor. Public compensation snapshots indicate senior packages can scale higher, supporting a clear, market-aligned structure.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with mental-health resources and fertility support as core offerings. Coverage for dependents and strong wellness benefits are consistently highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — About 20 days of PTO plus a two‑week company winter break and paid holidays provide substantial time away. A formal sabbatical at 10 years further expands long‑term recharge options.
Duolingo Insights
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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