# Lead Technical Recruiter, Product Management

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: Pittsburgh, PA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $163,200-$244,800 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8517116002
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ebff3f86-40c

## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. We're looking for a Lead Recruiter to own product hiring at Duolingo, partnering directly with our Chief Product Officer to build and shape the Product org from the ground up.

As a Lead Recruiter, you will own full-cycle recruiting for Product roles at all levels, building deep pipelines and consistently closing top talent. You will be a true partner to the CPO, shaping hiring strategy, prioritizing roles, and helping define what great Product talent looks like at Duolingo.

You will lead and influence without direct authority, working across recruiting, sourcing, and business stakeholders to align processes, calibrate expectations, and drive outcomes. You will drive sourcing strategy, using data to tell the story, diagnosing pipeline health, surfacing insights to leadership, and making decisions that balance speed with quality.

You will champion the candidate experience from first touch to offer close, making sure every interaction reflects Duolingo's brand and values. You will build the infrastructure, whether that's interview frameworks, leveling guidance, or hiring playbooks, that scales beyond you.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful depth in Product hiring. They will have experience partnering closely with senior leaders (VP/C-suite) to shape org strategy, not just fill seats. They will have a track record of hiring across levels, from PMs to Directors to VPs, with strong judgment on what 'great' looks like at each.

They will DRIVE sourcing strategy (roughly 25–30% of your time), going beyond inbound to build proactive outreach for senior and hard-to-fill roles. They will use data to tell the story , diagnosing pipeline health, surfacing insights to leadership, and making decisions that balance speed with quality.

They will CHAMPION the candidate experience from first touch to offer close, making sure every interaction reflects Duolingo's brand and values. They will build the infrastructure , whether that's interview frameworks, leveling guidance, or hiring playbooks , that scales beyond you.

Exceptional candidates will have experience leading or mentoring a recruiting team, even informally. They will have deep market knowledge of the Product talent landscape, including how to position Duolingo competitively. They will have a history of building repeatable hiring systems that improve quality and efficiency at scale.

## Skills

### Required
- Recruiting
- Product Management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Data Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Talent Development

### Nice to have
- Sourcing
- Pipeline Management
- Interview Frameworks
- Leveling Guidance
- Hiring Playbooks