Senior Engineering Manager, Retention

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...

Were hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team in the Retention area. You will co-lead a cross-functional team with a Product Manager co-lead to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement while owning the teams roadmap execution and outcomes. This role blends technical leadership people management and product strategy as youll set direction for complex systems foster an inclusive high-performance culture and create an environment for engineers to do impactful things. The role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.

You will...

• 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.
• Collaborate closely with product design research and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive learner experiences across inapp and outofapp surfaces (e.g. notifications emails widgets).
• Define team OKRs ruthlessly prioritize and remove roadblocks so the team ships impactful work that moves company metrics.

You have...

• 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 datadriven 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 tradeoffs evolve quality standards and mentor engineers on best practices.
• The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh PA or New York NY.

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Experience leading teams focused on retention engagement growth or habitformation features in consumer products.
• Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on companylevel metrics.
• Background managing teams with broad crossfunctional scope.

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