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Duolingo is hiring a Director of Product Management, Learning to lead the Short-form Learning Area focused on bite-sized, gamified language lessons. This role involves managing senior product managers and partnering with cross-functional teams to enhance existing exercises, develop new ones, and integrate AI to optimize learning effectiveness.

Highlights

Lead the vision and strategy for short-form instructional content in language learning.
Manage a team of senior product managers and co-lead a 75-person cross-functional team across engineering, product, design, and learning.
Improve existing bite-sized exercises and develop new ones, focusing on effectiveness and user delight.
Enhance teaching of grammar and improve Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language courses.
Leverage AI to customize learning paths and improve teaching methods.
Drive key initiatives across the product organization, including AI adoption and performance management.
Require experience leading product managers and delivering exceptional results in consumer applications or software roles.
Use quantitative and qualitative data to inform product decisions and create intuitive user experiences.
Salary range between $240,000 and $432,000 USD, complemented by equity compensation and benefits.
Collaborate with engineering and learning teams to ensure effective and delightful language learning.

Director of Product Management, Learning Full Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

Read our blog to learn more.

About the role...

As the Director of Product Management for the new Short-form Learning Area, you'll own the core of Duolingo: the bite-sized, gamified lessons that instruct learners in a fun and effective way. You will manage a team of senior product managers to improve our existing exercises, develop new ones, and use AI to teach as effectively as possible.

In addition to your product leadership responsibilities, as Area Lead, you'll partner with your engineering and learning co-leads to lead a group of 75 cross-functional colleagues across engineering, product, design, and learning and curriculum. Together, you will make sure learning a language on Duolingo is effective and delightful. You'll also partner with other product leaders across the company to ensure we're delivering a cohesive experience across learning formats.

Some of the problems you will own include...

Making every bite-sized exercise effective and delightful
Teaching grammar more effectively
Improving our Chinese, Japanese, and Korean courses
Using AI to customize the learning path

You will...

Create the vision and strategy for how we instruct better through short-form content
Be accountable for learning outcomes as co-lead of the ~75-person cross-functional Short-form Learning Area
Manage and develop a team of senior product managers
Level up your team's product craft and velocity, so we're producing higher-quality work, faster
Lead through example by using AI to improve your craft, and encouraging your team to do the same
Propose and own key initiatives that improve the entire product org (e.g., AI adoption, interviewing, performance management)

You have...

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 use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions
An instinct for creating simple, delightful, and intuitive user experiences

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.

Salary Range:

$240,000—$432,000 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

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 accommodations@duolingo.com.

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.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

Original Job Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

Read our blog to learn more.

About the role...

Some of the problems you will own include...

Making every bite-sized exercise effective and delightful
Teaching grammar more effectively
Improving our Chinese, Japanese, and Korean courses
Using AI to customize the learning path

You will...

Create the vision and strategy for how we instruct better through short-form content
Be accountable for learning outcomes as co-lead of the ~75-person cross-functional Short-form Learning Area
Manage and develop a team of senior product managers
Level up your team's product craft and velocity, so we're producing higher-quality work, faster
Lead through example by using AI to improve your craft, and encouraging your team to do the same
Propose and own key initiatives that improve the entire product org (e.g., AI adoption, interviewing, performance management)

You have...

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 use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions
An instinct for creating simple, delightful, and intuitive user experiences

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

Salary Range:

$240,000—$432,000 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

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