Staff Product Manager, Core App Experience

Duolingo•Pittsburgh, NY

7h•$204,000 - $306,000

About The Position

As a Staff Product Manager on Duolingo’s Core App Experience team, you will own app-wide systems, states, and shared surfaces that help create a coherent experience for all users. You will partner with engineering and product design peers to simplify foundational experiences and build frameworks and patterns that make the app easier to use, adapt, and extend. The role involves improving the app experience for more than 58 million daily users, balancing long-term investments with launches that improve the experience today, collaborating with product managers across the company, and bringing clarity and impact to an ambiguous problem space. You will own core app mechanics, surfaces, and functionality, including user accounts, home messages, and session end. You will improve product quality through quick interventions that address acute pain points and build systems and frameworks that balance a high-quality app experience with individual product teams’ goals. The posted base salary range is $204,000–$306,000 USD, supplemented by equity compensation; salary depends on factors including experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons.

Requirements

Experience building systems and frameworks that improve quality at a major mobile product company.
Experience turning a broad mandate into a high-ROI roadmap that includes near-term launches and long-term investments.
An extremely high bar for quality and strong product sense.
Drive to fix problems, even when they do not fit neatly within the role’s scope.

Responsibilities

Own core app mechanics, surfaces, and functionality, such as user accounts, home messages, and session end.
Improve product quality with quick interventions that address acute pain points.
Build systems and frameworks that balance a high-quality app experience with individual product teams’ goals.
Partner with engineering and product design to simplify foundational experiences and create frameworks and patterns that make the app easier to use, adapt, and extend.
Work with product managers across the company to understand their needs while maintaining a high bar for the overall app experience.
Develop a roadmap combining near-term launches with long-term investments.