Duolingo

Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

$204K–$306KFull-time · New York, NY
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About the role...

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team focused on user growth. You will co-lead a cross-functional team to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement through a variety of features, while owning the team's roadmap, execution, and outcomes. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and product strategy as you'll 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 partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that drive user growth.

- Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure 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 operational excellence.

- Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver user experiences that serve user needs while being impactful towards business metrics.

- Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.

✅ You have...

- 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.

- 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 habit-formation features in consumer products.

- Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company-level metrics.

- Background managing teams with broad cross-functional scope.

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.

We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

Salary Range:

$204,000 - $306,000 USD

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