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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

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At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

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Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. 

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Read our blog to learn more.

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About the role...

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As the Director of Product Management for the new Short-form Learning Area, you'll own the core of Duolingo: the bite-sized, gamified lessons that instruct learners in a fun and effective way. You will manage a team of senior product managers to improve our existing exercises, develop new ones, and use AI to teach as effectively as possible.

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In addition to your product leadership responsibilities, as Area Lead, you'll partner with your engineering and learning co-leads to lead a group of 75 cross-functional colleagues across engineering, product, design, and learning and curriculum. Together, you will make sure learning a language on Duolingo is effective and delightful. You'll also partner with other product leaders across the company to ensure we're delivering a cohesive experience across learning formats.

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Some of the problems you will own include...

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• Making every bite-sized exercise effective and delightful
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• Teaching grammar more effectively
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• Improving our Chinese, Japanese, and Korean courses
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• Using AI to customize the learning path
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  You will...

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• Create the vision and strategy for how we instruct better through short-form content
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• Be accountable for learning outcomes as co-lead of the ~75-person cross-functional Short-form Learning Area
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• Manage and develop a team of senior product managers
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• Level up your team's product craft and velocity, so we're producing higher-quality work, faster
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• Lead through example by using AI to improve your craft, and encouraging your team to do the same
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• Propose and own key initiatives that improve the entire product org (e.g., AI adoption, interviewing, performance management)
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  You have...

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• A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
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• Experience leading other product managers
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• Experience generating outstanding results as a product manager in a consumer application, product, or software role
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• Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions
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• An instinct for creating simple, delightful, and intuitive user experiences
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