Director of Product Management, Duolingo
$196-426k
+ Equity
Language education platform
Open for applications
Language education platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$196-426k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Duolingo's mission is to give everyone access to a private tutor experience through technology, making learning fun and providing universal access to language education.
Role
Who you are
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Experience leading other product managers
- Experience generating outstanding results as a product manager in a consumer application, product, or software role
- Ability to utilize user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
- An instinct for creating simple and intuitive user experiences
- Proven ability to learn fast
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful and innovative
- Experience leading projects and teams
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Linguistics, or related field
Desirable
- Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or related field
- Professional experience in areas highly related to our work as product managers at Duolingo, such as software engineering, design, data analysis or language learning
What the job involves
- You'll be a key product leader in our outstanding Growth Area
- The Growth Area focuses on attracting new users, retaining current users, and bringing users back to Duolingo
- More users = more data (so we can teach better) and more paid subscribers (so we can invest in making the app even better, and keep the lights on!)
- The Growth Area’s goal is to make Duolingo so fun and delightful that our learners stick around to make real progress and tell their friends all about it!
- Lead other product managers
- Drive strategy for a product or product area
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Be responsible for hitting the key performance indicators you are entrusted with
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to discover feature ideas and validate them before development
- Work closely with UI/UX designers to ensure an excellent user experience in our product
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Perform quantitative analysis on features’ performance and find opportunities for optimization
- Be responsible for building features that make learning on Duolingo more fun, like the streak, leaderboard, achievements, and new ones you'll invent
Our take
Duolingo is a free to use language learning app, offering 95 courses across 38 distinct languages. It is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and has previously been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.
With over 500 million learners, the company has unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Its team of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve its effectiveness.
Alongside language courses, the company has created the Duolingo English Test which is an affordable and convenient language certification option accepted by more than 2,000 universities and institutions worldwide. Since its 2021 IPO, Duolingo has shown strong momentum and regular changes to the app have brought increased user engagement, retention, and stronger conversion.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% female employees
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2020
$35m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$10m
LATE VC
Total funding: $183.3m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for employees as well as eligible partners and dependents
- Mental health benefits such as therapy sessions and coaching to support you to be your best self
- Fertility benefits to support your family planning journey
- Fully paid parental and adoption leave
- Fully paid subscription to Care.com and paid backup days for dependents and your fur family
- 401(k) with generous match and immediate vesting
- 20 days of paid time off, with two additional weeks off for winter break
- First-time home buyer bonus (in Pittsburgh)
- Competitive salaries and equity
- Yearly stipend for professional development
- Transportation reimbursement for however you get to work
- Lunch prepared daily by our in-house chefs
- Annual international retreat for all full-time employees
- Monthly events celebrating our team and their amazing work
- On-site gym and massages
- Game room for taking brain breaks
Company values
- Learners First - Our mission and reason for existing is to make sure everyone in the world has access to high-quality education
- Take The Long View - If it works in the short-term but hurts Duolingo in the long-term, it's not right. We make decisions that keep us moving toward our big goals
- Prioritize Ruthlessly - We have millions of learners and only hundreds of employees, so our work must focus on initiatives that have high return on investment. Make your time matter
- Ship It - For a good idea to become reality, it needs a plan and a sense of urgency. So go go go!
- Test Everything - We measure and test everything so we can make informed decisions based on data
- We Haven’t Won Yet - Until every person who wants to learn is doing so with Duolingo, we need to keep innovating, pushing the envelope, and learning ways to get better
- Strive For Excellence - To change how the world learns, we must do world-class work. From the people we hire to the features we ship, we never settle for just okay
- All For One, One For All - We stay engaged and make choices that benefit the greater good-because Duolingo's success is our success
- Be Candid And Kind - We build things together with transparency and care for each other. We offer feedback compassionately but with excellence in mind, and receive it openly and as an opportunity to grow
Company HQ
East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA
Articles
Leadership
Luis von Ahn
(CEO)Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA sold to Google.
Severin Hacker
(CTO)PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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