Senior Engineering Manager, Retention
At a glance
Highlights
- Large scope projects
- Mentorship and collaboration
- World-class minds
- Half a billion learners
- Innovative experiments
Why this role might suit you
The Senior Engineering Manager role at Duolingo offers the chance to lead high-impact product engineering efforts in retention, work on large-scale experiments with a global user base, and shape the career growth of diverse engineering talent within a mission-driven organization.
Skills
About the role
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!
At Duolingo, you’ll 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. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s 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...
We’re 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 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 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
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