Director of Product Management, Learning

<p>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!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. </p> <p style="text-align: left;">Read <a href="https://blog.duolingo.com/?utm_source=greenhouse.comutm_medium=referralutm_campaign=generalblog_gh_091224">our blog</a> to learn more.</p> <hr> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the role...</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Some of the problems you will own include...</p> <ul> <li>Making every bite-sized exercise effective and delightful</li> <li>Teaching grammar more effectively</li> <li>Improving our Chinese, Japanese, and Korean courses</li> <li>Using AI to customize the learning path</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><img class="" style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://i.ibb.co/JB9S2cD/icon-brain-16px.png" alt="icon-brain-16px" width="17" data-is360="0"> You will...</strong></p> <ul> <li>Create the vision and strategy for how we instruct better through short-form content</li> <li>Be accountable for learning outcomes as co-lead of the ~75-person cross-functional Short-form Learning Area</li> <li>Manage and develop a team of senior product managers</li> <li>Level up your team's product craft and velocity, so we're producing higher-quality work, faster</li> <li>Lead through example by using AI to improve your craft, and encouraging your team to do the same</li> <li>Propose and own key initiatives that improve the entire product org (e.g., AI adoption, interviewing, performance management)</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><img id="geom_inter_1726854542099_26_1" class="" style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://i.ibb.co/0F2Z121/icon-check-16px.png" alt="icon-check-16px" width="17" data-is360="0"> You have...</strong></p> <ul> <li>A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education</li> <li>Experience leading other product managers</li> <li>Experience generating outstanding results as a product manager in a consumer application, product, or software role</li> <li>Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions</li> <li>An instinct for creating simple, delightful, and intuitive user experiences</li> </ul> <hr><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.</strong></p> <p><em>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. </em><em>The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but ... (truncated, view full listing at source)