Senior Engineering Manager
Core
Lead the Monetization Pillar to drive subscriptions, ads, and in-app purchases, ensuring business sustainability while delivering premium learner experiences.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Monetization)
Builds
Premium monetization experiences, subscription systems, and experimentation frameworks for Duolingo's learners.
Domain
EdTech / Consumer Mobile / Monetization Systems
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Engineering team leadership, hiring and talent development, cross-functional collaboration, product strategy, data-driven decision making, technical architecture guidance, quality standards enforcement, risk management, stakeholder alignment.
Preferred skills
Subscription systems at scale, billing and entitlements, StoreKit/Google Play Billing, paywall and upgrade flow design, high-velocity experimentation programs, ML-powered personalization, pricing and packaging strategy, subscriber retention and churn management, subscription economics metrics.
Technologies
StoreKit, Google Play Billing, ML frameworks, experimentation platforms.
Responsibilities
Co-lead a cross-functional pod to define strategy and execution roadmap for monetization teams; partner with design and product to ship native, delightful experiences; collaborate with data science and ML to design experiments and translate insights into growth; own planning and execution of revenue-impacting projects; set and uphold engineering quality standards for reliability and scalability; mentor engineers on best practices.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
