Duolingo’s business runs on two numbers: Daily Active Users and revenue. This role owns both. As VP of Product for Growth and Monetization, you'll lead our largest product organization through a team of experienced pillar leads. Your teams shape how learners come back every day and why they choose to pay. You'll run one of the highest-velocity experimentation engines in consumer tech, with a mandate to grow DAUs and revenue sustainably and never at the expense of learners. This role reports to the Chief Product Officer, joins Duolingo's Product Leadership and Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and is based in New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid (4+1) schedule.
Own DAUs and revenue, Duolingo's two hero metrics, and deliver both against forecast.
Manage the pillar leads who run Growth and Monetization, an org of roughly 20 PMs and our largest.
Coach and develop senior product leaders, and raise the bar for product talent across the company.
Partner with Engineering and Design leadership to make clear tradeoffs and ship quickly.
Build world-class product operating mechanisms: Clear north star metrics, planning and review rituals, and rigorous A/B testing.
Allocate resources across Growth and Monetization, balancing steady optimization with bigger swings.
Be the single voice for Growth and Monetization at the executive level: progress, risks, and the plan to hit both numbers.
Executive product leadership in consumer tech, with multi-year measurable impact on DAUs or revenue at scale.
High judgment and operational rigor, with a record of hitting forecasts without sacrificing user experience.
A track record of leading managers of managers and developing strong product leaders.
Experience leading through change: reorgs, new operating models, faster execution.
