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Senior Product Manager (Notifications)

Duolingo

Skills

Required

  • independently drive alignment

Preferred

  • notifications
  • email
  • Development of insights
  • improve existing notification systems
  • personalized / ML-driven
  • template generation

Join Duolingo, a leading language-learning platform, as a Senior Product Manager for the Notifications Team. In this highly cross-functional role, you will own product strategy and execution for notifications, driving retention and engagement among our half a billion learners worldwide. You will work closely with engineers, data scientists, designers, and other partners to create more effective and engaging notification experiences.

USD 182,800 - 247,300

Responsibilities

  • Ownership of product optimizations and features, from independently run experiments to major product decisions.
  • Development of insights that lead to new product ideas and Duolingo’s next beloved feature.
  • Driving the team’s roadmap across high-impact workstreams including new notification types, opt-in and reach, email, and alternative channels.
  • Experience building and executing on roadmaps that improve existing notification systems while also creating new surfaces and capabilities
  • Significant experience working on notifications or adjacent lifecycle surfaces, with a strong understanding of what makes outreach timely, effective, and valuable to users
  • Experience working on personalized or ML-driven messaging systems, including targeting, ranking, experimentation, or template generation
  • Experience working cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, designers, writers, and ML/AI partners
  • Experience owning product strategy and execution for notifications, including identifying new opportunities, prioritizing work, and driving launches from concept through iteration
  • Experience working on notification-related channels beyond push, such as email, Live Activities, or other alternative channels, and a point of view on the role each can play in driving engagement

Requirements

  • Excitement about moving quickly, learning from fast experimentation, and shaping product strategy
  • Experience improving notification performance across areas such as new notification types, opt-in, reach, targeting, or channel strategy 
  • Ability to independently drive alignment and make progress in ambiguous spaces without waiting to be told what to do
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
  • Strong judgment for how to make notifications more engaging and effective while balancing user experience and long-term reachability 
  • Strong product instincts and analytical judgment, with the ability to use experiments and data to make meaningful decisions
  • Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager on a consumer mobile product
  • Experience working on consumer products with high-frequency engagement loops (e.g., health, wellness, fitness, mobile games)
  • Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent