Senior Product Manager, Growth

Quick Facts

• Role: Product lead within the Growth pillar (growth team)

• Focus: Improve user retention and habit-building; DAUs as north star

Description

You will own product strategy and execution across opportunities to improve user retention, helping users build language-learning habits. You will work closely with Product Design and Product Writing to ensure users understand and appreciate new features, and with Engineering to deliver them. You will run fast experiments, turn insights into product strategy, and drive retentive experiences with a variety of growth features such as streaks, quests, leaderboards, and notifications.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution for a new growth team, from identifying opportunities to shipping and iterating on solutions

• Drive the team’s roadmap across high-impact workstreams, with DAUs as the north star

• Lead product features through their full lifecycle: ideation, prioritization, specification, development, launch, analysis, and iteration

• Work closely with engineers, data scientists, ML/AI partners, product writers, and designers to create more retentive experiences

• Improve core team metrics such as retention (short and long term), L7, and relevant feature adoption/usage

• Partner closely with leadership to help shape the direction of one of the company’s top teams for driving top-line impact

Requirements

• Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager on a consumer mobile product

• Significant experience working on growth or growth-adjacent product surfaces, ideally owning DAU/WAU or retention metrics

• Experience owning product strategy and execution for a growth-related feature, including identifying new opportunities, prioritizing work, and driving launches from concept through iteration

• Strong product instincts and analytical judgment, with the ability to use experiments and data to make meaningful decisions

• Ability to independently drive alignment and make progress in ambiguous spaces without waiting to be told what to do

• Excitement about moving quickly, learning from fast experimentation, and shaping product strategy

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent

Benefits

• Salary Range: $182,800 — $247,300 USD (base salary supplemented by equity compensation; subject to change)

• Benefits: holistic well-being benefits (details provided on the benefits page)

• Accommodations: assistance to ensure interviews fairly assess skills; accommodations@duolingo.com

• Equal Employment Opportunity

• Fraud warning and applicant privacy notice (handled during application)