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Leads Duolingo’s Growth and Monetization product organization, owning daily active users and revenue. Manages pillar leads and approximately 20 product managers, develops senior product leaders, drives experimentation, establishes operating mechanisms, allocates resources, and partners with Engineering, Design, Data, and Marketing leadership. The role reports to the Chief Product Officer and requires hybrid work in New York City or Pittsburgh.

Lead product design for Duolingo’s monetization experiences across subscriptions, ads, and in-app purchases. Define free and paid user journeys, shape product strategy and roadmap, partner with product managers and engineers, and expand the design language with designers and artists. Develop experiences spanning copy, animation, usability, and business impact while supporting experimentation, iterative improvement, and design talent development.

Lead product design for Duolingo’s monetization experiences across subscriptions, ads, and in-app purchases. Define free and paid user journeys, shape product strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, and artists, and contribute to Duolingo’s design language. Work spans broad concepts and tactical features while balancing copy, animation, user experience, experimentation, and business impact.

Own the stability and performance of Duolingo’s Android learning app at scale. Lead architectural improvements for startup and critical learning flows, evolve tracing and benchmarking tools, detect regressions automatically, and maintain performance metrics for experiment analysis. Partner with product teams to interpret performance data, resolve crashes, ANRs, memory leaks, and dropped frames, while mentoring engineers and promoting engineering excellence.

Own the stability and performance of Duolingo’s Android learning app. Lead architectural improvements for startup and critical learning flows, develop tracing and benchmarking tools, detect regressions, analyze performance metrics, and partner with product teams to resolve issues. Responsibilities include diagnosing ANRs, memory leaks, dropped frames, and crashes while mentoring engineers and promoting engineering excellence.

Build and operate reliable, scalable backend services and infrastructure. Collaborate with product, design, mobile, data science, and machine learning teams; own complex technical problems from design through production; lead project priorities and milestones; and maintain systems supporting score calculation, learning engagement, advertising, and observability.

Build and operate reliable, scalable backend services and infrastructure for Duolingo’s advertising systems. Responsibilities include collaborating with product, design, data science, machine learning, and ad operations; designing, developing, releasing, and maintaining backend systems; and owning project priorities and milestones through production. The role requires strong backend fundamentals, systems thinking, and experience with Java, Python, or Kotlin and database technologies.

The Head of Influencers & Community will strategize and execute on user-generated content, partnerships, and community engagement for growth. They will lead a team to optimize influencer programs and advocate networks, driving measurable business outcomes and connecting community activities to business results.

Develop, train, fine-tune, deploy, and monitor large-scale ML models (LLMs, speech, TTS, multimodal). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, run extensive experiments and evaluations, influence product strategy, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality AI solutions.

As Head of Influencers & Community, you will lead the strategy for influencer engagement, community growth, and user-generated content to drive measurable growth for Duolingo. Your role includes building partnerships, designing loyalty programs, and collaborating across teams to ensure community-driven initiatives support brand expansion.