Staff Product Manager, Growth

<p data-renderer-start-pos="1475" data-local-id="f28bff94-2a2c-475c-b041-8f92a3552953">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!</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1703" data-local-id="e7057569-8b3c-4957-88c9-96b72c1faa7a">Our Product Managers (PMs) have ownership over product optimizations and features, from independently run experiments to <a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu1v1w _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu1r31 _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _syaz13af _1a3b1r31 _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" href="https://blog.duolingo.com/tag/product/?utm_source=greenhouse.comutm_medium=referralutm_campaign=pmblog_gh_091224" data-renderer-mark="true"><u data-renderer-mark="true">major product decisions</u></a>. 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. </p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2099" data-local-id="e3e4853c-d7fc-4da7-aa46-74df26bf5759">Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.</p> <hr> <h3><strong>About the role...</strong></h3> <p>Come and be a product lead for the Current User Retention Team, an extraordinary Growth team with a world-changing mission. Duolingo’s core story for the last 13 years has been about consistent user growth, and in the Growth Pillar you’ll be at the heart of it. You’ll work on some of Duolingo’s most famous features, helping build and invent product that drive retention and engagement: the streak, leaderboards, notifications, widgets. </p> <p>Our Current User Retention team can run upwards of 100 experiments a quarter, meaning that we’re learning what learners respond to at a breakneck pace, not only helping improve the product literally every day but also giving PMs the opportunity to develop a <em>much</em> stronger sense of what works (and what doesn’t). The core of the work in Growth at Duolingo is behavioral science - what helps people build a new habit, to continue learning even when it gets hard, and to go deeper in their learning so that they make real, meaningful progress. </p> <p>We look to PMs to drive the ideas and opportunities; rarely is our leadership team dictating features for teams to build, and some of our most successful and iconic growth features have been initiatives started by junior and senior PMs alike. At Duolingo, you’ll have the opportunity (and be expected) to chart new paths for growth within the product. </p> <p>Critical to our growth is that at the core of Duolingo, we’re not a game - we are a learning product. By helping grow and retain users, you’re helping people all over the world learn a language or a skill, gaining new opportunities in life. Improving the lives of millions of learners is a deeply held part of our mission, and your work is critical to achieving that. </p> <p>Join us at Duolingo and help shape the future of learning, one learner at a time. </p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>🧠 You will…</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the team’s roadmap, from idea to execution </li> <li>Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration</li> <li>Dig deep into data and external research to explore and validate feature ideas</li> <li>Drive product strategy for the team in close partnership with executive leadership</li> <li>Partner closely with product designers to ensure a fun, useful user experience in our product</li> <li>Work with engineers to help guide feature development, fro ... (truncated, view full listing at source)