Summary
Andrew Pierce is a product leader with 12 years of experience designing and scaling ad products across major consumer platforms, currently leading Duolingo's ads business to fund universal access to education. He has driven monetization and self-service advertising at Spotify, Amazon DSP, and Instacart, and launched new surface monetization and youth well-being initiatives during a multi-year tenure at Meta. Known for bridging technical depth from a software engineering background with strategic product vision, he builds systems that scale to millions of users and advertisers. His experience spans both platform-facing tooling for large advertisers and consumer-facing ad products that support freemium models. Based in New York, he combines global ad tech scaling experience with a mission-driven focus on education and accessibility. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and data-informed, with a knack for turning complex ad infrastructure into product experiences that directly support business and user goals.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Software Engineering, Bachelors, Software Engineering at Monmouth University