Senior Engineering Manager, Monetization
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Job Location:
Pittsburgh, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!
At Duolingo youll 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. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
As a Senior Engineering Manager in Monetization youll lead a product engineering team responsible for core revenue-generating experiences including subscription packaging advertising and ML-powered personalization and targeting. Your team will build systems that help learners understand the value of Duolingos offerings surface the right experiences at the right time and fund our mission while keeping the product playful transparent and learner-first.
This role blends technical leadership strong product intuition and people management. Youll partner closely with product design data science and machine learning to define strategy ship high-quality systems and learn through continuous experimentation. Youll set direction for complex high-impact systems and create an environment where engineers do the best work of their careers.
:brain: You will...
- Form a tight partnership with your product manager to co-lead a cross-functional team aligning on strategy priorities and success metrics.
- Guide your team building and iterating on subscription and ad experiences that are intuitive scalable and measurable.
- Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning partners to design experiments apply personalization or targeting techniques and translate insights into product improvements.
- Own the planning and execution of projects that directly impact top-line metrics like revenue and identify which metrics to optimize for at the team level.
- Bring both technical and product perspectives to new ideas helping your team identify the fastest and most effective ways to test hypotheses.
- Set a high bar for engineering quality promoting practices that improve reliability scalability observability and long-term maintainability.
- Develop your team deeply understanding each engineers strengths and career goals and proactively providing mentorship and stretch opportunities to help them grow their impact.
- Set clear expectations and hold a high bar for performance regularly providing candid feedback addressing challenges decisively and maintaining a supportive environment where engineers feel valued engaged and empowered.
- Provide clarity and alignment transparently communicating the why behind decisions thoughtfully guiding your team through changes and ensuring everyone understands their role in achieving team and company goals.
:check: You have...
- 2 years of experience leading managing and building a team of software engineers.
- 5 years in software development focused on content or animation creation.
- A track record of owning the execution of successful technical projects that span multiple engineers over multiple weeks.
- Strong product instincts and comfort working in highly experimental data-driven environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience aligning diverse sets of stakeholders
- Experience working closely with data experimentation or machine learning teams (direct ML expertise not required).
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
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. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to skills experience education and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!
