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DuolingoDuolingoNew York, NY

Senior Manager, Scaling Operations

Leads a team owning operations for contingent workforce and vendor procurement, building scalable systems with AI and automation for content delivery. Partners cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to drive strategy and efficiency.

163k – 245k/yr
On-siteBusiness Operations

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Establish and implement a vision for freelance and vendor operations at the intersection of content systems and AI integration – defining success, setting roadmaps, and using AI and automation to deliver new learning content at scale while maintaining educational excellence.
  • Design durable, tech-forward workflows that replace manual coordination with self-service tooling: centralized contractor management, self-serve task assignment, and structured QC and feedback loops.
  • Identify the critical resources for scaling initiatives to succeed, both in terms of people and technology, and drive prioritization.
  • Manage a team of program managers.

Requirements

  • People management experience. Experience hiring and developing a team of program management staff.
  • Program management experience. Demonstrated strong operational leadership, such as experience running programs of large scale and complexity or building and scaling processes from the ground up.
  • Collaboration skills. Partner with functions across the company—such as engineering, product management, content development, and executive leadership—to ensure alignment across teams and stakeholders.
  • Tooling strategy experience. Tech-savviness. Curious about new technologies, define the roadmap for you and your teams to increase efficiency with automation. Strong, data-driven opinions about build vs buy tooling.
  • Strong communication skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Proven wins maturing a 0-to-1 operations function into a durable, instrumented system, including evaluation loops, anomaly detection, and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Experience partnering deeply with engineering on internal tooling and operating systems; comfortable shaping roadmaps and trade-offs alongside a tech lead.

Compensation

  • Salary Range: $163,200—$244,800 USD
  • Equity compensation and benefits included.

Skills

Program ManagementAIAutomationInternal ToolingData AnalysisWorkflow DesignContractor ManagementVendor ProcurementSelf-Service ToolingBuild Vs Buy
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