Senior Director of Engineering, New SubjectsActive$444K

The opportunity

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!

What you'll do

  • Drive the product and technical strategy across Music and Chess , balancing: short-term product impact with long-term strategic goals.

  • Partner strategically with Product, Design, Learning and AI to evolve our: strategy, including decisions on when and how to expand to additional subjects.

  • Lead multiple engineering directors and their teams as they tackle some of: the most interesting technical challenges in industry: AI-based content creation at scale, neural bots, and Unity-based gameplay.

  • Drive operational excellence across Duolingo’s engineering org , including: reliability, performance, developer productivity, and efficient execution at scale.

  • Contribute to Duolingo’s engineering hiring bar and talent systems , playing: a central role in hiring decisions, leveling, and organizational design to maintain a high-performance, high-density team.

  • Lead an organization that moves quickly, runs high-quality experiments, and: translates product insights into measurable business impact.

What they're looking for

  • Build and develop a strong leadership bench capable of bringing ambitious new products to market.
  • Experience leading consumer product engineering organizations (40+: engineers), ideally across multiple high growth product experiences.
  • Product instincts and experience partnering closely with senior product: leadership to define strategy, not just execute against it.
  • A track record of driving measurable impact on business outcomes , including: growing early product development through significant company scale.
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