Director of Engineering, Math

About the role

Over the last few years, Duolingo has expanded beyond language learning into entirely new subjects: Math, Music, and Chess. These products reach millions of daily active users, are growing quickly, and represent a CEO-level bet that Duolingo can become a platform for learning anything.

This role is based in our New York, NY office on a hybrid (4+1) work schedule.

You will

• Drive the product and technical strategy for Math , balancing short-term product impact with long-term strategic goals.
• Partner strategically with Product, Design, Learning and AI to evolve our strategy, including decisions on when and how to expand to additional subjects.
• Lead multiple fast-moving engineering leaders and their teams as they tackle some of the most interesting technical challenges in industry, including AI content generation and AI tutoring.
• Lead an organization that moves quickly, runs high-quality experiments, and translates product insights into measurable business impact.
• Build and develop a strong leadership bench capable of bringing ambitious new products to market.
• Drive operational excellence across Duolingo’s engineering org , including reliability, performance, developer productivity, and efficient execution at scale.
• Contribute to Duolingo’s engineering hiring bar and talent systems , playing a central role in hiring decisions, leveling, and organizational design to maintain a high-performance, high-density team.

You have

• Experience leading consumer product engineering organizations (30+ engineers), ideally across multiple high growth product experiences.
• Product instincts and experience partnering closely with product leadership to define strategy, not just execute against it.
• A track record of driving measurable impact on business outcomes , including growing early product development through significant company scale.
• Experience building or scaling LLM-powered product features, with a strong interest in building engineering cultures that embrace new technologies.
• Deep experience building and scaling high-velocity, experiment-driven product organizations.
• A track record of building high-performance, inclusive teams, and making thoughtful, high-judgment talent decisions.
• Ability to influence senior executives and drive clarity in ambiguous, cross-functional situations .
• Ability to work from our New York, NY office on a 4+1 hybrid work schedule.