Director of Product Management, Learning

6 Minutes ago • All levels • Product Management • $240,000 PA - $432,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. 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. As Director of Product Management for the Short-form Learning Area, you'll own the core of Duolingo: the bite-sized, gamified lessons. You will manage a team of senior product managers to improve existing exercises, develop new ones, and use AI to teach effectively. You'll also partner with engineering and learning co-leads to ensure language learning on Duolingo is effective and delightful.
Must have:
  • 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)

Job Details

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.

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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

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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 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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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

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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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