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
Define and drive the roadmap for doubling developer productivity across: Duolingo — aligning engineering, product, and data science around a shared vision, sequencing the work, and holding teams accountable to measurable outcomes.
Lead organizational change management as engineering teams adopt new ways of: working — building alignment, communicating progress to executives and ICs alike, and helping teams internalize new processes and tooling.
Partner closely with Developer Amplification (DevAmp) Area leads to: accelerate developer productivity through AI-powered tooling, ensuring programs have clear goals, measurable impact, and sustained momentum across engineering squads.
Lead the delivery of strategic, high-impact cross-functional initiatives from: conceptualization to launch, operating with significant autonomy across multiple workstreams.
Partner with engineering, product, data science, QA, and executive leadership: to ensure communication and alignment; serve as the connective tissue between Duolingo strategy and day-to-day execution.
Leverage deep technical expertise to develop detailed plans with key: milestones and goals, identify and mitigate risks, resolve dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure timely and smooth launches.
What they're looking for
- Establish and evangelize engineering practices that drive step-change: improvements in developer productivity — coaching engineering leads and TPMs on new ways of working and how to measure their impact.
- Drive decisions when difficult tradeoffs must be made, including those with: cross-organizational or company-level impact; model how to navigate hard problems with analytical rigor and a calm, decisive presence.
- Identify systemic issues impacting delivery efficiency company-wide and take: swift, collaborative action to resolve them.
- Guide and develop other TPMs and engineering leads, scaling best practices: across teams and continuously improving how the organization operates.
