Senior Engineering Manager, Monetization

Duolingo
Pittsburgh, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 204,000 - 306,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Strategic thinking","Collaboration","Mentoring"]

Lead a cross-functional product engineering team responsible for high-impact, revenue-generating systems across ads and paid growth. Build scalable engineering capabilities, collaborate with data/ML teams, define strategy and milestones, and foster a high-performing, reliable, observability-focused engineering culture in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

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3 months ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Monetization

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Job Summary

Lead a cross-functional product engineering team responsible for high-impact, revenue-generating systems across ads and paid growth. Build scalable engineering capabilities, collaborate with data/ML teams, define strategy and milestones, and foster a high-performing, reliable, observability-focused engineering culture in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.
Location: Pittsburgh, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Co-lead a cross-functional pod with Product and Marketing to define strategy, success metrics, and an execution roadmap for Duolingo’s performance marketing engine, aligned to ROI guardrails and retained-user growth goals.
  • •Build and evolve the engineering systems that power paid growth at scale: creative experiment frameworks, audience/signal ingestion and privacy-safe list management, budget and bid optimization tooling, and reliable attribution and reporting pipelines.
  • •Collaborate with data science and ML partners to design experiments, apply personalization/targeting, and translate insights into product improvements and bookings growth.
  • •Own planning and execution for projects that directly impact revenue; identify the right team‑level metrics to optimize and protect delivery through clear milestones and risk management.
  • •Bring both technical and product perspectives to new ideas, enabling rapid hypothesis testing without sacrificing reliability, observability, or long‑term maintainability.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 204,000 - 306,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers.
  • •A track record of owning multi-engineer, multi-week technical projects to successful outcomes in a highly experimental, data-driven environment.
  • •Strong product instincts and excellent written/verbal communication, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, product, design, and analytics.
  • •Experience working closely with data, experimentation, or machine learning teams to inform prioritization and ship measurable impact (direct ML expertise not required).
  • •Demonstrated ability to raise the bar on engineering practices for reliability, scalability, and observability.
Experience:EducationAdsMonetizationEdtechAdvertising
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingCollaborationMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Advertising platformsMLData pipelinesObservabilityIOSAndroidBackend

Company Brief

Duolingo
Duolingo develops a gamified language-learning platform offering courses, practice exercises, and assessment tools for learners worldwide via web and mobile apps, using adaptive algorithms and motivational features to drive engagement and retention.
Industry: EdTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Pittsburgh, United States
Founded: 2011
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