Senior Director of Engineering, New Subjects

The role

You will co-lead new subjects including Math, Music, and Chess. You will drive product and technical strategy, manage multiple engineering directors, and build the organization that delivers these products.

What you will do

• Drive the product and technical strategy across Math, Music and Chess
• Partner strategically with Product, Design, Learning and AI to evolve strategy
• Lead multiple engineering directors and their teams
• Drive operational excellence across Duolingo's engineering org
• Contribute to Duolingo's engineering hiring bar and talent systems
• Lead an organization that runs high-quality experiments
• Build and develop a strong leadership bench

Required qualifications

• Experience leading consumer product engineering organizations (100+ engineers)
• Product instincts and experience partnering with senior product leadership
• Track record of driving measurable impact on business outcomes
• Experience building or scaling LLM-powered product features
• Deep experience building and scaling high-velocity, experiment-driven product organizations
• Track record of building high-performance, inclusive teams
• Ability to influence senior executives and drive clarity in ambiguous situations
• Ability to work from our New York, NY office on a 4+1 hybrid work schedule

Nice to have

• ideally across multiple high growth product experiences

About the company

Duolingo's mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. The company is expanding beyond language learning into Math, Music, and Chess.