At a glance
- Location
- New York, NY
- Salary
- USD 181,600-272,400 · Base salary
About the role
- 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.
- This is a role for someone who operates at the strategic level: identifying opportunities, shaping programs, and driving outcomes that matter to the business.
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 - you've shifted how engineering organizations think and work, not just shipped projects.
- Strong executive presence and influence in a matrix environment - able to build conviction among skeptics, align competing priorities across senior leadership, and drive decisions without direct authority.
- Deep technical credibility - enough to challenge architectural assumptions, spot delivery risks early, and earn the trust of strong engineers.
- Proven ability to build and implement detailed plans that account for ambiguity, dependencies, and technical complexity - and to re-plan quickly when things change, without losing team confidence or momentum.
- A track record of standing up new programs or practices from scratch in ambiguous, high-visibility environments.
- Ability to relocate to NYC.
Workplace
- Based in New York City
Skills
- AWS
