Duolingo
Product Manager, Chess
🇺🇸 New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $148K - $240K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ September 28th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead product development and roadmap for the chess curriculum.
- Create novel lesson formats focusing on chess skills such as openings, midgame tactics, endgames, and planning.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to validate curriculum improvements.
- Collaborate with product designers and engineers to ensure a fun and effective learning experience.
- Run experiments to evaluate and refine teaching methods.
- Required skills include Python and SQL proficiency.
- Must have an Elo rating of 1400+ on Lichess and experience as a Product Manager in a software company.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent required.
- Salary range is $147,900 to $240,400 USD.
- Exceptional candidates may have experience teaching chess, competing in tournaments, or using chess engines.
Product Manager, Chess Full Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Itâs a big mission, and thatâs where you come in!
At Duolingo, youâll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Youâll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds â while doing work thatâs 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...
Duolingoâs new chess course has quickly reached millions of daily active learners â and weâre just getting started. As we continue to grow, we need our curriculum to teach learners effectively, retain learners with appropriately challenging puzzles, and teach everything from piece movement to complex lines. We are looking for a proven product leader who will own the development of Duolingoâs chess curriculum â from defining our teaching strategy to ideating and shipping new teaching formats. Come build with a high-powered, ambitious team thatâs making the game of chess more delightful and accessible than ever.
You will...
- Lead product development of the chess curriculum. You will define the roadmap for what we should teach and how we teach it.
- Develop novel lesson formats and learning features that teach core chess skills (ie: openings, midgame tactics, endgames, planning).
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate curriculum changes.
- Partner with product and learning designers to ensure a fun, delightful, and effective learning experience.
- Work with engineers to implement and guide feature development.
- Run experiments to update, evaluate, and iterate on how we teach.
You have...
- An Elo rating 1400+ (Lichess).
- 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 decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to problem-solve, be curious, and innovative.
- Experience leading successful projects and teams.
- Bachelorâs Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent.
- Proficiency with Python and SQL.
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience teaching chess in an academic or extracurricular setting.
- Experience competing in chess tournaments.
- Proficiency using or implementing chess engines.
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.
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.
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