Senior Product Manager, Duolingo
Learning R&D
Language education platform
Job no longer available
Language education platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
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
- Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager at a software company
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Ability to apply user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform product decisions
- An instinct for creating simple and intuitive user experiences
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful, curious, and innovative
- Experience leading projects and teams
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
Desirable
- Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, or equivalent
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app based
What the job involves
- We are looking for a product leader to work on an extraordinary Learning team with a world-changing mission
- You will lead the product strategy and develop critical learning features to provide a more effective and engaging experience for our learners
- Work with executive leadership to drive the strategy for a key team in the Learning Area
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Partner with product designers to ensure a fun and delightful user experience
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Perform experiment analysis on features and find opportunities for optimization
- Define your key performance indicator(s) which drive user growth, and achieve them!
Our take
Duolingo is a free to use language learning app, offering 100+ courses in more than 40 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 registered users, 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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 HQ
East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Luis von Ahn
(CEO & Co-founder)Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA sold to Google.
Severin Hacker
(CTO & Co-founder)PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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