# Staff Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $181,600-$272,400 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This is a high-impact L4 TPM role based in New York City, starting in one of Duolingo's fastest-moving pillars: Growth.

You'll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams and require someone who can bring structure, alignment, and momentum.

Responsibilities:

- Define and drive the roadmap for high-impact, cross-functional initiatives in the Growth pillar and beyond, aligning engineering and product leadership around a shared vision, sequencing the work, and holding teams accountable to outcomes.

- Lead organizational change management as engineering teams adopt new ways of working , building alignment, communicating progress to executives and ICs alike, and helping teams internalize new processes and tooling.

- Lead the delivery of strategic, high-impact cross-functional initiatives from conceptualization to launch, operating with significant autonomy across multiple workstreams.

- Partner with engineering, product, data science, QA, and executive leadership to ensure communication and alignment; serve as the connective tissue between Duolingo strategy and day-to-day execution.

- Leverage deep technical expertise to develop detailed plans with key milestones and goals, identify and mitigate risks, resolve dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure timely and smooth launches.

- Drive decisions when difficult tradeoffs must be made, including those with cross-organizational or company-level impact; model how to navigate hard problems with analytical rigor and a calm, decisive presence.

- Identify systemic issues impacting delivery efficiency company-wide and take swift, collaborative action to resolve them.

- Guide and develop other TPMs and engineering leads, scaling best practices across teams and continuously improving how the organization operates.

Requirements:

- Proven experience as a TPM, Engineering Lead, or Engineering Manager.

- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience.

- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale technical transformation programs with measurable organizational impact.

- Strong executive presence and influence in a matrix environment.

- Deep technical credibility.

- Proven ability to build and implement detailed plans that account for ambiguity, dependencies, and technical complexity.

- A track record of standing up new programs or practices from scratch in ambiguous, high-visibility environments.

- Ability to relocate to NYC.

Exceptional candidates will have:

- Strong knowledge of software engineering, systems engineering, or similar hands-on technical experience, in addition to program management experience.

- Strong conceptual fluency in LLM-based products and AI infrastructure.

- Experience running programs that include machine learning, large datasets, or AI/ML infrastructure.

- Experience working with AWS at scale.

## Skills

### Required
- Technical Program Management
- Engineering Leadership
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Strategic Planning
- Technical Expertise

### Nice to have
- LLM-based Products
- AI Infrastructure
- Machine Learning
- AWS

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