Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

Duolingo
Pittsburgh, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Problem-solving","Stakeholder management"]

Lead a high-impact product engineering team in the Retention area, co-leading with a Product Manager to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement. Set the team's roadmap, drive cross-functional execution, and ensure reliability, scalability, and observability. Blend technical leadership with people management and product strategy to mentor engineers and shape a culture of high performance across Pittsburgh or New York.

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Duolingo
Duolingo
4 months ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

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Job Summary

Lead a high-impact product engineering team in the Retention area, co-leading with a Product Manager to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement. Set the team's roadmap, drive cross-functional execution, and ensure reliability, scalability, and observability. Blend technical leadership with people management and product strategy to mentor engineers and shape a culture of high performance across Pittsburgh or New York.
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 team with your product partner, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for retention and habit-building features.
  • •Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring system 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 retention 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 and operational excellence.

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of 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.
Experience:3+ yearsEdtechEducationSaaS
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringProblem-solvingStakeholder management
Languages:English

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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