# Senior Product Design Manager

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: Pittsburgh, PA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000-$300,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

Duolingo's designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun.

Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion learners around the world.

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Product Design Manager to lead and grow a high-performing team shaping delightful, effective experiences used by millions of learners.

You will...

- Grow and lead a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers and design leaders who consistently deliver high-quality work and learner-focused outcomes.

- Develop your team's skills and careers, giving clear, actionable feedback and coaching toward greater scope and impact.

- Partner deeply with Product and Engineering leaders to set strategy, plan effectively, and hit product and business metrics.

- Uphold and elevate a high bar for design craft and usability across end-to-end experiences, from visual design to interaction details and animation.

- Use data and experimentation to inform decisions, measure outcomes, and iterate for impact.

- Work directly with executives and our CEO in building excellent products.

- Champion a creative, learner-first culture that balances bold bets with rigorous, data-driven improvements.

## You have...

- 8+ years in product design with proven people management experience at a comparable tech company.

- A track record of building, scaling, and developing high-performing design teams and recruiting diverse talent.

- Experience partnering with PM and Engineering to define strategy, plan roadmaps, and deliver measurable results.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate product rationale and design feedback clearly to executives and cross-functional partners.

- A strong grasp of data-informed design; comfortable setting success metrics and reviewing experiments.

- Fluency in modern design tools and practices; able to give incisive, craft-level feedback even when not the hands-on designer.

- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, or New York City, NY.

## Exceptional candidates will have...

- A portfolio that showcases exceptional outcomes and craft through the work of their teams.

- Experience owning large end-to-end projects, while also being able to deliver at speed.

- Demonstrated organizational savvy with strong relationships across functions and levels.

- A love for the craft and a care for their people.

## Benefits

- Salary Range: $200,000-$300,000 USD

- Equity compensation and world-class benefits

## Skills

### Required
- product design
- people management
- data-informed design
- modern design tools

### Nice to have
- portfolio showcasing exceptional outcomes
- experience owning large end-to-end projects

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