Director of Product Management, Gamification

4 Days ago • 8 Years +
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Duolingo seeks a skilled Director of Product Management (Gamification) with 8+ years of experience in mobile gaming. This role involves driving product strategy, leading feature development, and conducting user research to create engaging monetization features for Duolingo's vast learner base.

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!

Our Product Managers (PMs) have ownership over product optimizations and features, from independently run experiments to major product decisions. Backed by strong analytical skills and business acumen, and inspired by access to senior leadership and transparency into how they make product decisions, our PMs develop insights that lead to new product ideas and Duolingo’s next beloved feature. 

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


About the role

We’re looking for an experienced mobile gaming Product Manager to work on an extraordinary Monetization team with a world-changing mission. You’ll invent and work on fun gamified features that drive monetization through a la carte purchases.

We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with brilliant peers. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

 

  You will...

  • Work with executive leadership to drive product strategy for a key team in the Monetization 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 in our product
  • 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 monetization, and achieve them!

 

  You have...

  • 8+ years of experience in mobile gaming
  • 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
  • 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, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent

 

  Exceptional candidates will have...

  • Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
  • Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing mobile games that have a strong IAP and/or subscription growth.

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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 your recruiter.

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.

About The Company

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.


Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.


Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.


Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. 


With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. 


Duolingo has raised US $138 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), NewView Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drive Capital, Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss.


Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor (2020), Forbes' "Next Billion Dollar Startups" (2019), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2018, 2019), Fortune's "Change the World" list (2019), TIME Magazine's Genius Companies (2018), Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" (2017, 2018, 2020), Inc.'s "Best Places to Work" (2018), Entrepreneur's "Top Company Cultures" (2018).

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