Duolingo is looking to enhance its educational product experience for its half a billion learners worldwide by strengthening its Design team and its leadership capabilities.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product design as a people manager at a similar or later-stage tech company, including experience managing managers
- Experience sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding for your team, as well as spot promising design talent
- Consistent track record of successfully managing people, including developing talent on your teams and recruiting a diverse team that reflects our learners
- Experience defining and influencing product strategy
- Experience ideating, building and prototyping with AI tools, like ChatGPT and Cursor
- A awareness and appreciation for the precise application of data and metrics in product design
- A portfolio of extraordinary visual design and craft as done by their teams
Responsibilities
- Grow and lead a skilled, diverse, inclusive team of designers and leaders that consistently delivers high-quality products
- Mentor and develop the skills, talents, and careers of the designers and design managers on your team, coaching them to success and impact
- Collaborate closely with leaders in other functions (Product and Engineering) to ensure that product areas are both planning well and hitting their metrics
- Build a thriving culture where designers do high-quality work and uphold our noteworthy product experience
- Design and scale the organization, partnering closely with Leadership and Talent Acquisition on headcount budgeting and forecasting
- Use a mix of internal and third-party AI tools at every step of your creative process
- Experience defining and influencing product strategy
Other
- Exemplary written and verbal communication skills that lead to effective and concrete output
- Attention to detail and a focus on excellence
- Organizational savviness, and the ability to build relationships with leaders of all functions
- Worked at a company with very high design standards
- Shipped AI-driven products
- Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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