Senior Engineering Manager, Product
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. You’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
About the role
We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team focused on user growth. You will co-lead a cross-functional team to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement through a variety of features, while owning the team's roadmap, execution, and outcomes. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and product strategy as you’ll set direction for complex systems, foster an inclusive, high-performance culture, and create an environment for engineers to do impactful things. The role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.
Responsibilities
- Co-lead a cross-functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that drive meaningful user impact.
- Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Use data and rapid experimentation to inform decisions; partner with internal stakeholders to design A/B tests and translate insights into product improvements that measurably impact key product KPIs.
- Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
- Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long-term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver user experiences that serve user needs while being impactful towards business metrics.
- Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.
Requirements
- Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.
- A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.
- Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data-driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.
- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade-offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
Qualifications
Exceptional candidates will have:
- Experience leading cross-functional teams focused on driving core product outcomes in consumer products.
- Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company-level metrics.
- Background dealing with ambiguity and managing teams or projects with broad cross-functional scope.
Pay
The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
Salary Range: $204,000—$306,000 USD
Benefits
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.