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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
Duolingo's Monetization pillar builds the systems that fund our mission — from subscription packaging and advertising to ML-powered personalization, performance marketing, and beyond. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead a cross-functional product engineering team working on high-impact, revenue-generating systems that help Duolingo grow sustainably while keeping the product playful, transparent, and learner-first. Your team will build and scale systems across ads and paid growth — building signal and audience pipelines, powering creative experimentation, improving ad quality, optimizing budget allocation, and strengthening attribution and ROI guardrails. You'll partner closely with product, design, data science, machine learning, and marketing to define strategy and deliver results. Just as importantly, you'll create an environment where engineers do the best work of their careers — coaching, developing talent, and fostering a high-performing team culture.
🧠 You will...
- Co-lead a cross-functional pod with Product and Marketing to define strategy, success metrics, and an execution roadmap for Duolingo’s performance marketing engine, aligned to ROI guardrails and retained-user growth goals.
- Build and evolve the engineering systems that power paid growth at scale: creative experiment frameworks, audience/signal ingestion and privacy-safe list management, budget and bid optimization tooling, and reliable attribution and reporting pipelines.
- Collaborate with data science and ML partners to design experiments, apply personalization/targeting, and translate insights into product improvements and bookings growth.
- Own planning and execution for projects that directly impact revenue; identify the right team‑level metrics to optimize and protect delivery through clear milestones and risk management.
- Bring both technical and product perspectives to new ideas, enabling rapid hypothesis testing without sacrificing reliability, observability, or long‑term maintainability.
- Set and uphold engineering quality standards and practices that improve reliability, scalability, and operability across Ads systems.
✅ You have...
- Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers.
- A track record of owning multi‑engineer, multi‑week technical projects to successful outcomes in a highly experimental, data‑driven environment.
- Strong product instincts and excellent written/verbal communication, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, product, design, and analytics.
- Experience working closely with data, experimentation, or machine learning teams to inform prioritization and ship measurable impact (direct ML expertise not required).
- Demonstrated ability to raise the bar on engineering practices for reliability, scalability, and observability.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Prior experience with advertising platforms, ad tech integrations, or building ad surfaces in mobile apps.
- Experience improving ad quality and monetization through experimentation, targeting, or programmatic levers, in partnership with business teams.
- Familiarity with COPPA‑compliant or kid‑friendly ad solutions and the trade‑offs of untargeted inventory.
- Background collaborating with sales/biz ops on direct or programmatic campaigns and translating market feedback into product improvements.
- Experience leading teams that span multiple platforms (iOS, Android, backend) and partnering on ML‑powered personalization within consumer apps.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
Duolingo's Monetization pillar builds the systems that fund our mission — from subscription packaging and advertising to ML-powered personalization, performance marketing, and beyond. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead a cross-functional product engineering team working on high-impact, revenue-generating systems that help Duolingo grow sustainably while keeping the product playful, transparent, and learner-first. Your team will build and scale systems across ads and paid growth — building signal and audience pipelines, powering creative experimentation, improving ad quality, optimizing budget allocation, and strengthening attribution and ROI guardrails. You'll partner closely with product, design, data science, machine learning, and marketing to define strategy and deliver results. Just as importantly, you'll create an environment where engineers do the best work of their careers — coaching, developing talent, and fostering a high-performing team culture.
🧠 You will...
- Co-lead a cross-functional pod with Product and Marketing to define strategy, success metrics, and an execution roadmap for Duolingo’s performance marketing engine, aligned to ROI guardrails and retained-user growth goals.
- Build and evolve the engineering systems that power paid growth at scale: creative experiment frameworks, audience/signal ingestion and privacy-safe list management, budget and bid optimization tooling, and reliable attribution and reporting pipelines.
- Collaborate with data science and ML partners to design experiments, apply personalization/targeting, and translate insights into product improvements and bookings growth.
- Own planning and execution for projects that directly impact revenue; identify the right team‑level metrics to optimize and protect delivery through clear milestones and risk management.
- Bring both technical and product perspectives to new ideas, enabling rapid hypothesis testing without sacrificing reliability, observability, or long‑term maintainability.
- Set and uphold engineering quality standards and practices that improve reliability, scalability, and operability across Ads systems.
✅ You have...
- Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers.
- A track record of owning multi‑engineer, multi‑week technical projects to successful outcomes in a highly experimental, data‑driven environment.
- Strong product instincts and excellent written/verbal communication, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, product, design, and analytics.
- Experience working closely with data, experimentation, or machine learning teams to inform prioritization and ship measurable impact (direct ML expertise not required).
- Demonstrated ability to raise the bar on engineering practices for reliability, scalability, and observability.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Prior experience with advertising platforms, ad tech integrations, or building ad surfaces in mobile apps.
- Experience improving ad quality and monetization through experimentation, targeting, or programmatic levers, in partnership with business teams.
- Familiarity with COPPA‑compliant or kid‑friendly ad solutions and the trade‑offs of untargeted inventory.
- Background collaborating with sales/biz ops on direct or programmatic campaigns and translating market feedback into product improvements.
- Experience leading teams that span multiple platforms (iOS, Android, backend) and partnering on ML‑powered personalization within consumer apps.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Director of Data Science & Analytics, User Growth
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
This person will own all aspects of product data science, forecasting, and business intelligence for User Growth. They will lead a team of 6 to 10 data scientists spanning staff to junior levels, with a mandate to coach, develop, and grow their careers while also expanding the team by hiring exceptional talent over time. The ideal candidate combines deep technical fluency in causal inference, statistical/ML modeling, and experimentation with genuine leadership ability: the kind of person who raises the bar for everyone around them.
This role reports to the Head of Data Science & Analytics and partners closely with executive leadership in Engineering, Product, Design, and Finance.
🧠 You will...
- Set the analytical vision and roadmap for User Growth data science, ensuring the team's work is tightly aligned with company-level priorities and pillar-level goals.
- Lead a team of 6 to 10 data scientists. Manage their performance, coach their development, and build a culture of intellectual rigor, creative problem-solving, and shipping impact. Grow the team over time by attracting and hiring outstanding talent.
- Own the design, execution, and interpretation of experiments and causal analyses that drive decisions on user acquisition, activation, retention, and reengagement. Establish and defend the methodological standards (A/B testing, guardrail metrics, measurement frameworks) that ensure we learn reliably from every test.
- Develop and maintain user growth forecasting systems. Partner with Finance and Product to deliver credible, timely forecasts of key growth metrics and ensure leadership has the quantitative foundation to set targets and allocate resources.
- Drive business intelligence strategy within Growth, including the metrics layer, self-serve dashboards, and the analytical infrastructure that enables the broader team to operate with data fluency.
- Translate complex analytical findings into clear narratives for senior leadership. Influence strategic decisions through a combination of technical depth and effective communication.
- Collaborate across organizational boundaries with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Finance to embed data science into every phase of product development.
- Stay current on advances in applied economics, statistical methodology, machine learning, and AI, and bring those advances into the team's practice where they create real value.
✅ You have...
- A graduate degree in Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field. A PhD is a strong signal but not a strict requirement; what matters is demonstrated depth and originality in analytical thinking.
- Deep expertise in causal inference, experimentation, and machine learning models. You are the person others come to when the measurement problem is hard.
- Proven ability to build, lead, and grow a high-performing data science team. You have a track record of hiring well, developing people across levels, and creating an environment where talented scientists do the best work of their careers.
- Strong command of SQL, Python or R, and the data engineering ecosystem. You do not need to write production pipelines, but you need to go deep when the work requires it.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to distill complex quantitative work into crisp, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Experience operating at a high-growth, data-intensive consumer technology company.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience developing and implementing a long-range analytical vision that shaped product strategy and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated success in building forecasting systems or attribution models at scale.
- A background in economics or a related field that brings structural thinking and causal reasoning to product problems, not just pattern recognition.
- Experience navigating the transition from growth-stage to scaled public company, including the analytical demands that come with investor-grade reporting and forecasting.
- Experience with AI and machine learning as applied to user behavior modeling, notification optimization, or personalization.
- An impressive Duolingo streak.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Duolingo is the world's most popular learning app. Beyond our core learning product, we also offer English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new subjects into the Duolingo app, where people can develop their Math and Music skills.
We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!
You'll be a product manager in our Learning Pillar and will be responsible for developing products that make learning a new language fun and effective, regardless of one's level. We've recently introduced a number of new ways to learn, including Stories, DuoRadio, Adventures, and Video Call, and are always looking for better ways to teach. You will partner with your cross-functional peers to build delightful learning experiences, shape our overall learning strategy, and impact the lives of tens of millions of learners.
🧠 You will...
- Be responsible for improving the learning experience through delightful and impactful products
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Establish the strategy for your focus area, and build alignment across product teams, cross-functional partners, and the leadership team
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Perform experiment analysis on features and find opportunities for optimization
- Execute with urgency and excellence
✅ You have...
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Experience generating outstanding results as a product manager
- Ability to utilize user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
- Top-tier design sense -- every pixel matters at Duolingo
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful, curious, and innovative
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Duolingo is the world's most popular learning app. Beyond our core learning product, we also offer English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new subjects into the Duolingo app, where people can develop their Math and Music skills.
We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!
You'll be a product manager in our Learning Pillar and will be responsible for developing products that make learning a new language fun and effective, regardless of one's level. We've recently introduced a number of new ways to learn, including Stories, DuoRadio, Adventures, and Video Call, and are always looking for better ways to teach. You will partner with your cross-functional peers to build delightful learning experiences, shape our overall learning strategy, and impact the lives of tens of millions of learners.
🧠 You will...
- Be responsible for improving the learning experience through delightful and impactful products
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Establish the strategy for your focus area, and build alignment across product teams, cross-functional partners, and the leadership team
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Perform experiment analysis on features and find opportunities for optimization
- Execute with urgency and excellence
✅ You have...
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Experience generating outstanding results as a product manager
- Ability to utilize user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
- Top-tier design sense -- every pixel matters at Duolingo
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful, curious, and innovative
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you’ll improve how engineers build and run services, helping ensure our compute platform is reliable at scale for our learners and fellow Duo engineers.
The Compute team builds and operates the core compute platform that powers our applications. We build paved roads (self-service platform primitives, templates, and tooling) and we operate them so product engineers can focus on shipping features with confidence.
This role is based in our Pittsburgh office and requires in-office presence Monday through Thursday.
🧠 You will...
- Build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes, across different regions and cloud providers.
- Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production by evolving our GitOps and deployment patterns, making rollouts safer and faster.
- Raise the operational bar: define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts, write runbooks, and participate in on-call/incident response to keep the platform dependable.
- Enable effective self-service by turning platform capabilities into reusable abstractions.
✅ You have...
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering and shipping pragmatic solutions in production environments.
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals (networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching/storage concepts).
- Experience working on production systems (through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work).
- Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Clear written and verbal communication skills—comfortable writing docs/runbooks and collaborating across teams.
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience managing a production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
- Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and the operational patterns that make them reliable.
- Experience with service mesh / zero-trust networking patterns (e.g., Istio mTLS, traffic management, authorization policies).
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you’ll improve how engineers build and run services, helping ensure our compute platform is reliable at scale for our learners and fellow Duo engineers.
The Compute team builds and operates the core compute platform that powers our applications. We build paved roads (self-service platform primitives, templates, and tooling) and we operate them so product engineers can focus on shipping features with confidence.
This role is based in our Pittsburgh office and requires in-office presence Monday through Thursday.
🧠 You will...
- Build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes, across different regions and cloud providers.
- Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production by evolving our GitOps and deployment patterns, making rollouts safer and faster.
- Raise the operational bar: define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts, write runbooks, and participate in on-call/incident response to keep the platform dependable.
- Enable effective self-service by turning platform capabilities into reusable abstractions.
✅ You have...
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering and shipping pragmatic solutions in production environments.
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals (networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching/storage concepts).
- Experience working on production systems (through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work).
- Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Clear written and verbal communication skills—comfortable writing docs/runbooks and collaborating across teams.
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience managing a production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
- Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and the operational patterns that make them reliable.
- Experience with service mesh / zero-trust networking patterns (e.g., Istio mTLS, traffic management, authorization policies).
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Director, Internal Communications to build and lead an internal communications function that keeps Duos informed, aligned, and inspired. You will set the strategy and standards for how information flows at Duolingo, partner closely with senior leaders to communicate company priorities and change with clarity, and establish measurement so we can continuously improve reach and impact. This role sits within Global Communications and will work cross-functionally with People, Finance, Legal, IT, and executive offices. The scope and ownership areas reflect the current internal comms remit defined by the Comms org for 2026.
🧠 You will...
- Define and own Duolingo’s internal communications strategy, principles, and annual priorities; evolve systems and standards as the company scales.
- Lead planning and execution for cross-company forums and moments (e.g., Parliament, company-wide Q&As, ERG town halls), including message development, presenter preparation, FAQs, and follow-ups.
- Partner with senior leaders on company change communications (strategy shifts, org changes, program or policy updates), building clear cascades and manager toolkits that drive understanding and consistency.
- Establish internal communication standards and guidance on channels (Slack, memos, live forums), including templates, norms, and employee guardrails for public/social communication.
- Create measurement for internal comms effectiveness; analyze reach, clarity, and engagement to identify improvements and inform leadership.
- Build and lead a high-performing internal comms capability: set operating rhythms, define workflows with People/Chief of Staff teams, and manage vendors or contractors as needed.
- Prepare executives and spokespersons for internal moments with talking points, decks review for message clarity, and coaching.
- Partner with onboarding teams to ensure new hires understand how we communicate and where to find information.
- Anticipate issues and coordinate with Comms, Legal, People, and IT to ensure timely, accurate, and trusted internal updates.
✅ You have...
- 10+ years in communications with significant experience leading internal/employee communications at a fast-paced, product-led or tech company.
- Proven track record building or transforming internal comms strategies, systems, and standards at scale, with clear measurement of impact.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills; able to translate complex strategies into clear, concise messages and toolkits for executives and managers.
- Experience planning and running company-wide forums and change communications with cross-functional partners (People, Legal, Finance, IT).
- Strong executive presence and coaching ability; comfortable preparing senior leaders for high-visibility moments.
- Operational excellence: adept at standing up workflows, calendars, templates, and feedback loops that increase clarity and speed.
- High judgment, discretion, and issue management skills in a public company environment.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, or New York City.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience standing up a new internal communications function and hiring/leading a small, high-impact team.
- Demonstrated success creating manager cascade programs with measurable understanding lift.
- Background partnering directly with a CEO/Founder and Chief People Officer on company-wide communications.
- Familiarity with Slack-at-scale and live forum production norms, with clear channel governance and templates.
- Experience building metrics frameworks for internal comms tied to trust, engagement, and clarity.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Director, Internal Communications to build and lead an internal communications function that keeps Duos informed, aligned, and inspired. You will set the strategy and standards for how information flows at Duolingo, partner closely with senior leaders to communicate company priorities and change with clarity, and establish measurement so we can continuously improve reach and impact. This role sits within Global Communications and will work cross-functionally with People, Finance, Legal, IT, and executive offices. The scope and ownership areas reflect the current internal comms remit defined by the Comms org for 2026.
🧠 You will...
- Define and own Duolingo’s internal communications strategy, principles, and annual priorities; evolve systems and standards as the company scales.
- Lead planning and execution for cross-company forums and moments (e.g., Parliament, company-wide Q&As, ERG town halls), including message development, presenter preparation, FAQs, and follow-ups.
- Partner with senior leaders on company change communications (strategy shifts, org changes, program or policy updates), building clear cascades and manager toolkits that drive understanding and consistency.
- Establish internal communication standards and guidance on channels (Slack, memos, live forums), including templates, norms, and employee guardrails for public/social communication.
- Create measurement for internal comms effectiveness; analyze reach, clarity, and engagement to identify improvements and inform leadership.
- Build and lead a high-performing internal comms capability: set operating rhythms, define workflows with People/Chief of Staff teams, and manage vendors or contractors as needed.
- Prepare executives and spokespersons for internal moments with talking points, decks review for message clarity, and coaching.
- Partner with onboarding teams to ensure new hires understand how we communicate and where to find information.
- Anticipate issues and coordinate with Comms, Legal, People, and IT to ensure timely, accurate, and trusted internal updates.
✅ You have...
- 10+ years in communications with significant experience leading internal/employee communications at a fast-paced, product-led or tech company.
- Proven track record building or transforming internal comms strategies, systems, and standards at scale, with clear measurement of impact.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills; able to translate complex strategies into clear, concise messages and toolkits for executives and managers.
- Experience planning and running company-wide forums and change communications with cross-functional partners (People, Legal, Finance, IT).
- Strong executive presence and coaching ability; comfortable preparing senior leaders for high-visibility moments.
- Operational excellence: adept at standing up workflows, calendars, templates, and feedback loops that increase clarity and speed.
- High judgment, discretion, and issue management skills in a public company environment.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, or New York City.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience standing up a new internal communications function and hiring/leading a small, high-impact team.
- Demonstrated success creating manager cascade programs with measurable understanding lift.
- Background partnering directly with a CEO/Founder and Chief People Officer on company-wide communications.
- Familiarity with Slack-at-scale and live forum production norms, with clear channel governance and templates.
- Experience building metrics frameworks for internal comms tied to trust, engagement, and clarity.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Below you can find more information about the teams we're hiring for:
Subscription Crossgrades Team:
As an Android engineer on the Subscription Crossgrades Team, you’ll build features that help learners discover and subscribe to the Duolingo plan that best fits their goals. Our team’s mission is to make subscription purchases convenient, compelling, and clear, so that learners can unlock Duolingo’s most powerful tools for long-term success. You’ll work on improving how we present subscription options across the app, highlight the value of our offerings, and craft delightful, high-impact conversion moments. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about creating seamless, user-centered purchase flows and subscription experiences.
Current User Retention Team:
As an Android engineer on the Current User Retention team, you will build and optimize features that help learners stick with their language goals day after day. You will work on several high-profile features, including Streaks and Quests, that make it motivating and rewarding for learners to keep coming back to learn on Duolingo. You’ll collaborate with product and design partners to ship experiment-driven features end-to-end. You’ll craft polished in-app experiences and use data to understand how your work shapes learner behavior at scale. We’re looking for engineers who are excited about rapid experimentation and building delightful experiences that keep learners engaged.
🧠 You will...
- Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
- Develop, release, and maintain native Android application features in Kotlin
- Mentor and set technical direction for junior engineers on the team
✅ You have...
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Programming experience in Kotlin on Android
- The ability to communicate technical issues effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Strong programming experience building reactive Android apps
- Demonstrated self-direction, with a desire both to learn new techniques and mentor others
- Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
- Experience writing unit tests and testable code
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
This person will own all aspects of product data science, forecasting, and business intelligence for User Growth. They will lead a team of 6 to 10 data scientists spanning staff to junior levels, with a mandate to coach, develop, and grow their careers while also expanding the team by hiring exceptional talent over time. The ideal candidate combines deep technical fluency in causal inference, statistical/ML modeling, and experimentation with genuine leadership ability: the kind of person who raises the bar for everyone around them.
This role reports to the Head of Data Science & Analytics and partners closely with executive leadership in Engineering, Product, Design, and Finance.
🧠 You will...
- Set the analytical vision and roadmap for User Growth data science, ensuring the team's work is tightly aligned with company-level priorities and pillar-level goals.
- Lead a team of 6 to 10 data scientists. Manage their performance, coach their development, and build a culture of intellectual rigor, creative problem-solving, and shipping impact. Grow the team over time by attracting and hiring outstanding talent.
- Own the design, execution, and interpretation of experiments and causal analyses that drive decisions on user acquisition, activation, retention, and reengagement. Establish and defend the methodological standards (A/B testing, guardrail metrics, measurement frameworks) that ensure we learn reliably from every test.
- Develop and maintain user growth forecasting systems. Partner with Finance and Product to deliver credible, timely forecasts of key growth metrics and ensure leadership has the quantitative foundation to set targets and allocate resources.
- Drive business intelligence strategy within Growth, including the metrics layer, self-serve dashboards, and the analytical infrastructure that enables the broader team to operate with data fluency.
- Translate complex analytical findings into clear narratives for senior leadership. Influence strategic decisions through a combination of technical depth and effective communication.
- Collaborate across organizational boundaries with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Finance to embed data science into every phase of product development.
- Stay current on advances in applied economics, statistical methodology, machine learning, and AI, and bring those advances into the team's practice where they create real value.
✅ You have...
- A graduate degree in Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field. A PhD is a strong signal but not a strict requirement; what matters is demonstrated depth and originality in analytical thinking.
- Deep expertise in causal inference, experimentation, and machine learning models. You are the person others come to when the measurement problem is hard.
- Proven ability to build, lead, and grow a high-performing data science team. You have a track record of hiring well, developing people across levels, and creating an environment where talented scientists do the best work of their careers.
- Strong command of SQL, Python or R, and the data engineering ecosystem. You do not need to write production pipelines, but you need to go deep when the work requires it.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to distill complex quantitative work into crisp, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Experience operating at a high-growth, data-intensive consumer technology company.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience developing and implementing a long-range analytical vision that shaped product strategy and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated success in building forecasting systems or attribution models at scale.
- A background in economics or a related field that brings structural thinking and causal reasoning to product problems, not just pattern recognition.
- Experience navigating the transition from growth-stage to scaled public company, including the analytical demands that come with investor-grade reporting and forecasting.
- Experience with AI and machine learning as applied to user behavior modeling, notification optimization, or personalization.
- An impressive Duolingo streak.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team working on Notifications. You will co-lead a cross-functional team to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement through our notifications pipeline, while owning the team's roadmap, execution, and outcomes. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and product strategy as you’ll set direction for complex systems, foster an inclusive, high-performance culture, and create an environment for engineers to do impactful things. The role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.
🧠 You will...
- Co-lead a cross-functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for notifications and other out-of-app messaging.
- Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring system reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Use data and rapid experimentation to inform decisions; partner with internal stakeholders to design A/B tests and translate insights into product improvements that measurably impact retention KPIs.
- Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
- Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long-term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver notification experiences that are cohesive across in‑app and other out‑of‑app surfaces (e.g., widgets).
- Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks so the team ships impactful work that moves company metrics.
✅ You have...
- Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.
- A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.
- Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data‑driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.
- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade‑offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience leading teams focused on retention, engagement, growth, or habit‑formation features in consumer products.
- Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company‑level metrics.
- Background managing teams with broad cross‑functional scope.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team working on Notifications. You will co-lead a cross-functional team to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement through our notifications pipeline, while owning the team's roadmap, execution, and outcomes. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and product strategy as you’ll set direction for complex systems, foster an inclusive, high-performance culture, and create an environment for engineers to do impactful things. The role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.
🧠 You will...
- Co-lead a cross-functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for notifications and other out-of-app messaging.
- Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring system reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Use data and rapid experimentation to inform decisions; partner with internal stakeholders to design A/B tests and translate insights into product improvements that measurably impact retention KPIs.
- Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
- Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long-term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver notification experiences that are cohesive across in‑app and other out‑of‑app surfaces (e.g., widgets).
- Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks so the team ships impactful work that moves company metrics.
✅ You have...
- Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.
- A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.
- Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data‑driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.
- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade‑offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience leading teams focused on retention, engagement, growth, or habit‑formation features in consumer products.
- Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company‑level metrics.
- Background managing teams with broad cross‑functional scope.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Recruiter II to hire exceptional talent for Duolingo’s Business, Marketing, and Creative teams. You’ll run full‑cycle searches, partnering closely with hiring managers to define profiles, build strong pipelines, and deliver a white‑glove candidate experience. You’ll balance speed and quality, use data to inform decisions, and help maintain Duolingo’s high talent bar.
🧠 You will...
- Own full‑cycle recruiting for roles in our Design, Marketing, and Business functions (intake, sourcing, assessments, offers), driving efficient, high‑quality hiring outcomes.
- Partner with hiring managers to align on role requirements, interview plans, and timelines; help set clear expectations and keep searches on track.
- Support intake meetings and recruiting syncs by sharing updates, surfacing insights, and recommending next steps.
- Review candidate portfolios and help assess design quality and craft in alignment with Duolingo’s aesthetic and standards.
- Execute strong recruiting operations: manage timelines, track progress, and proactively communicate status updates and risks.
- Deliver an excellent candidate experience with timely communication, structured assessments, and clear feedback loops from first touch to close.
- Use data to inform your work: monitor funnel health, identify trends, and suggest improvements to your searches.
- Use a mix of internal and third-party tools, including AI.
✅ You have...
- 3+ years of full‑cycle recruiting experience, including sourcing and closing for creative, business, and/or marketing roles.
- Experience hiring for moderately complex roles (e.g., industry hires, early-career or internship roles, or program management roles).
- Portfolio review experience, with the ability to recognize creative excellence.
- Ability to manage multiple searches at once while maintaining strong organization and candidate experience.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; you build trust and keep hiring partners aligned.
- Experience using recruiting data (e.g., pipeline metrics, conversion rates) to inform your approach.
- Experience ideating, building, and experimenting with AI tools, like ChatGPT.
- Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to support recruiting workflows.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience recruiting across multiple creative disciplines.
- Deep knowledge of the creative and marketing hiring landscape, including current trends and platforms.
- Experience recruiting in tech, startups, or high-growth companies.
- Experience with tools like Gem, Brighthire, Guide, and Greenhouse.
- A deep alignment with Duolingo’s mission.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Recruiter II to hire exceptional talent for Duolingo’s Business, Marketing, and Creative teams. You’ll run full‑cycle searches, partnering closely with hiring managers to define profiles, build strong pipelines, and deliver a white‑glove candidate experience. You’ll balance speed and quality, use data to inform decisions, and help maintain Duolingo’s high talent bar.
🧠 You will...
- Own full‑cycle recruiting for roles in our Design, Marketing, and Business functions (intake, sourcing, assessments, offers), driving efficient, high‑quality hiring outcomes.
- Partner with hiring managers to align on role requirements, interview plans, and timelines; help set clear expectations and keep searches on track.
- Support intake meetings and recruiting syncs by sharing updates, surfacing insights, and recommending next steps.
- Review candidate portfolios and help assess design quality and craft in alignment with Duolingo’s aesthetic and standards.
- Execute strong recruiting operations: manage timelines, track progress, and proactively communicate status updates and risks.
- Deliver an excellent candidate experience with timely communication, structured assessments, and clear feedback loops from first touch to close.
- Use data to inform your work: monitor funnel health, identify trends, and suggest improvements to your searches.
- Use a mix of internal and third-party tools, including AI.
✅ You have...
- 3+ years of full‑cycle recruiting experience, including sourcing and closing for creative, business, and/or marketing roles.
- Experience hiring for moderately complex roles (e.g., industry hires, early-career or internship roles, or program management roles).
- Portfolio review experience, with the ability to recognize creative excellence.
- Ability to manage multiple searches at once while maintaining strong organization and candidate experience.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; you build trust and keep hiring partners aligned.
- Experience using recruiting data (e.g., pipeline metrics, conversion rates) to inform your approach.
- Experience ideating, building, and experimenting with AI tools, like ChatGPT.
- Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to support recruiting workflows.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience recruiting across multiple creative disciplines.
- Deep knowledge of the creative and marketing hiring landscape, including current trends and platforms.
- Experience recruiting in tech, startups, or high-growth companies.
- Experience with tools like Gem, Brighthire, Guide, and Greenhouse.
- A deep alignment with Duolingo’s mission.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Our Product Managers (PMs) have ownership over product optimizations and features, from independently run experiments to major product decisions. Backed by strong analytical skills and business acumen, and inspired by access to senior leadership and transparency into how they make product decisions, our PMs develop insights that lead to new product ideas and Duolingo’s next beloved feature.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
Duolingo is the world's most popular learning app. Beyond our core learning product, we also offer English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new subjects into the Duolingo app, where people can develop their Math, Music, and Chess skills.
As the Senior Product Manager for the Duolingo English Test, you'll drive product changes across the entire user experience: acquisition funnel, monetization, security, and test development. In addition to your product responsibilities, you'll partner with 90 cross-functional colleagues across engineering, AI research, design, marketing and more.
Together, you’ll make sure that students can gain access to educational opportunities by taking an English test from the comfort of their home. With over 6,000 partner institutions, we are disrupting the high-stakes language-assessment market. If you love making a difference in the world through technology, this is the place for you.
🧠 You will...
- Establish the strategy for how we scale the test to more users globally
- Be responsible for improving the test experience and work closely with UI/UX designers
- Collaborate with AI researchers to develop novel features to improve the test’s security and efficacy
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Execute with urgency and excellence
✅ You have...
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Experience generating outstanding results as a product manager
- Ability to utilize user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
- Top-tier design sense -- every pixel matters at Duolingo
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful, curious, and innovative
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
- Professional experience in areas highly related to our work as product managers at Duolingo, such as software engineering, design, data analysis, or language learning
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Narrative Designer to add delight and depth to our characters by shaping how they behave and show up across new learning experiences beyond Language—like Math, Music, and more.
🧠 You will...
- Own and evolve a character experience within a New Subjects area (e.g., Math, Music)
- Write dialog and UI strings that capture our characters’ established style and tone
- Integrate character personality into lessons and core product moments
- Shape how characters behave across surfaces, balancing systems that guide their performance
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to define and iterate on character-driven features
✅ You have...
- Excellent creative writing skills and expertise in crafting character-rich dialog
- Strong ability to mine the zeitgeist for themes (and memes!) to keep content fresh and fun
- Deep experience collaborating with engineering, art, and product management partners
- Experience working on interactive products or systems (not just linear content)
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Game design experience, especially a deep understanding of narrative system design
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Narrative Designer to add delight and depth to our characters by shaping how they behave and show up across new learning experiences beyond Language—like Math, Music, and more.
🧠 You will...
- Own and evolve a character experience within a New Subjects area (e.g., Math, Music)
- Write dialog and UI strings that capture our characters’ established style and tone
- Integrate character personality into lessons and core product moments
- Shape how characters behave across surfaces, balancing systems that guide their performance
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to define and iterate on character-driven features
✅ You have...
- Excellent creative writing skills and expertise in crafting character-rich dialog
- Strong ability to mine the zeitgeist for themes (and memes!) to keep content fresh and fun
- Deep experience collaborating with engineering, art, and product management partners
- Experience working on interactive products or systems (not just linear content)
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Game design experience, especially a deep understanding of narrative system design
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Senior Accountant, Indirect Taxes to own day-to-day indirect tax operations and strengthen compliance across sales/use tax in the U.S. and VAT/GST in international markets. You’ll partner closely with our external partners on filings and registrations, resolve notices and audits, and build scalable processes that keep us accurate and on time. In addition, you’ll lead operational touchpoints that improve tax data quality - especially vendor onboarding/1099 readiness - and take ownership of fixed assets accounting to ensure clean books and strong controls. This role sits within Accounting (not a role manager) and collaborates frequently with AP, FP&A, and Internal Audit. The team is co-sourcing all corporate income tax/provision work with an external co-source provider; your focus is indirect taxes and adjacent accounting operations.
🧠 You will...
- Lead U.S. sales and use tax compliance end-to-end: nexus monitoring, data prep, return review/approval flows with partners, payment scheduling, and notice resolution.
- Coordinate international VAT/GST compliance with external partners, supporting registrations, return reviews, and audits; ensure timely, accurate filings and documentation.
- Own tax data readiness across procure-to-pay: strengthen vendor onboarding to capture complete tax documentation and IDs, and establish year-round 1099 preparedness to avoid year-end crunch.
- Serve as the primary operational liaison to our indirect tax partners (indirect tax advisor and co-sourced tax provider), facilitating calendars, data requests, and status tracking.
- Own fixed assets accounting: maintain the subledger, validate capitalization vs. expense judgments, perform monthly close activities, and prepare reconciliations with clear support.
- Build and document scalable processes and SOX-ready controls for indirect tax and fixed assets; maintain tight, current procedures and evidence.
- Partner cross-functionally (AP, FP&A, Internal Audit) to resolve issues quickly, align on timelines, and drive a single source of truth for tax-impacted data.
- Track and report compliance status, upcoming deadlines, and risk items; proactively flag issues and propose practical remediations.
✅ You have...
- 3–5 years of experience in indirect tax operations and/or public company accounting, with hands-on exposure to U.S. sales/use tax and international VAT/GST workflows.
- Experience partnering with external tax advisors on registrations, return preparation/review, audits, and notices; adept at organizing inputs and driving to on-time filings.
- Exposure to AP/procure-to-pay workflows and an interest in improving vendor onboarding and year-end information reporting (e.g., 1099) over time.
- Exposure to fixed assets accounting (or a strong willingness to learn) - including subledger administration, capitalization vs. expense decisions, monthly close tasks, and reconciliations.
- Excellent documentation and organization; ability to stand up repeatable processes and maintain audit-ready evidence.
- Clear, concise communication and stakeholder management across Accounting, partners, and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work on-site in Pittsburgh, PA (or New York, NY, as applicable to company policy for accounting roles).
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience coordinating multi-country VAT/GST compliance with global partners and fiscal reps.
- Prior work implementing or improving sales/use tax engines and related P2P data flows.
- Experience designing and operating SOX controls for tax and fixed assets processes.
- Background in consumer tech or subscription businesses with digital services and cross-border VAT.
- CPA or equivalent certification with indirect tax emphasis.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Senior Accountant, Indirect Taxes to own day-to-day indirect tax operations and strengthen compliance across sales/use tax in the U.S. and VAT/GST in international markets. You’ll partner closely with our external partners on filings and registrations, resolve notices and audits, and build scalable processes that keep us accurate and on time. In addition, you’ll lead operational touchpoints that improve tax data quality - especially vendor onboarding/1099 readiness - and take ownership of fixed assets accounting to ensure clean books and strong controls. This role sits within Accounting (not a role manager) and collaborates frequently with AP, FP&A, and Internal Audit. The team is co-sourcing all corporate income tax/provision work with an external co-source provider; your focus is indirect taxes and adjacent accounting operations.
🧠 You will...
- Lead U.S. sales and use tax compliance end-to-end: nexus monitoring, data prep, return review/approval flows with partners, payment scheduling, and notice resolution.
- Coordinate international VAT/GST compliance with external partners, supporting registrations, return reviews, and audits; ensure timely, accurate filings and documentation.
- Own tax data readiness across procure-to-pay: strengthen vendor onboarding to capture complete tax documentation and IDs, and establish year-round 1099 preparedness to avoid year-end crunch.
- Serve as the primary operational liaison to our indirect tax partners (indirect tax advisor and co-sourced tax provider), facilitating calendars, data requests, and status tracking.
- Own fixed assets accounting: maintain the subledger, validate capitalization vs. expense judgments, perform monthly close activities, and prepare reconciliations with clear support.
- Build and document scalable processes and SOX-ready controls for indirect tax and fixed assets; maintain tight, current procedures and evidence.
- Partner cross-functionally (AP, FP&A, Internal Audit) to resolve issues quickly, align on timelines, and drive a single source of truth for tax-impacted data.
- Track and report compliance status, upcoming deadlines, and risk items; proactively flag issues and propose practical remediations.
✅ You have...
- 3–5 years of experience in indirect tax operations and/or public company accounting, with hands-on exposure to U.S. sales/use tax and international VAT/GST workflows.
- Experience partnering with external tax advisors on registrations, return preparation/review, audits, and notices; adept at organizing inputs and driving to on-time filings.
- Exposure to AP/procure-to-pay workflows and an interest in improving vendor onboarding and year-end information reporting (e.g., 1099) over time.
- Exposure to fixed assets accounting (or a strong willingness to learn) - including subledger administration, capitalization vs. expense decisions, monthly close tasks, and reconciliations.
- Excellent documentation and organization; ability to stand up repeatable processes and maintain audit-ready evidence.
- Clear, concise communication and stakeholder management across Accounting, partners, and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work on-site in Pittsburgh, PA (or New York, NY, as applicable to company policy for accounting roles).
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience coordinating multi-country VAT/GST compliance with global partners and fiscal reps.
- Prior work implementing or improving sales/use tax engines and related P2P data flows.
- Experience designing and operating SOX controls for tax and fixed assets processes.
- Background in consumer tech or subscription businesses with digital services and cross-border VAT.
- CPA or equivalent certification with indirect tax emphasis.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Below you can find more information about the teams we're hiring for:
DevX AI Team
The DevX AI team empowers engineers at Duolingo to be more effective by introducing AI-infused tools that simplify workflows and reduce friction and toil. As a Software Engineer II on the team, you’ll contribute to building and improving AI-driven developer tools used across Duolingo’s engineering organization. You’ll work on projects that improve day-to-day developer workflows. You will help build and maintain systems that integrate AI into the software lifecycle, including contributing to production MCP infrastructure that connects to AI coding agents, with a focus on reliability, usability, and measurable impact.
🧠 You will...
- Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
- Develop, release, and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure
- Lead individual project priorities, milestones, and ensure we're always shipping
- Experience onboarding AI tools and changing engineering processes
- Focus on streamlining engineering processes with AI tools
✅ You have...
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience programming in Java, Python, or Kotlin
- Solid understanding of one or more database technologies
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Industry experience building high-traffic APIs using public cloud providers
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
This role is a critical part of our growth efforts. You’ll write the words that motivate our learners to keep up their daily habit, and you’ll explore messaging and tones of voice that strike a chord with our audience. As a writer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
🧠 You will...
- Write copy that encourages learning and keeping up a daily habit
- Flex the Duolingo voice in copy across the Duolingo app and related surfaces
- Write our (in)famous push notifications
- Come up with new messaging angles to test
- Write in the voice of our characters, from Lily to Falstaff
- Partner with product designers and product managers on new product interactions based on data and insights
- Focus on a few projects at a time and drive them to completion
- Support experiments and share insights so product wins can have a greater impact
- Work with our localization team to ensure A+ translation
- Report to the Director of Product Writing. We sit within the Design department, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo
✅ You have...
- A portfolio with compelling UX writing examples for a consumer app
- 3+ years of experience in both UX writing and consumer copywriting, including push notifications and emails
- A gift for expressing complicated things in plain language
- A creative turn of phrase that helps you write about the same thing several ways
- An ability to turn around revisions quickly
- A desire to write all day, every day
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York City
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience collaborating with translators
- Experience taking direction from senior writers
- Experience adapting to new tools and technology
- A Duolingo streak!
Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
This role is a critical part of our growth efforts. You’ll write the words that motivate our learners to keep up their daily habit, and you’ll explore messaging and tones of voice that strike a chord with our audience. As a writer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
🧠 You will...
- Write copy that encourages learning and keeping up a daily habit
- Flex the Duolingo voice in copy across the Duolingo app and related surfaces
- Write our (in)famous push notifications
- Come up with new messaging angles to test
- Write in the voice of our characters, from Lily to Falstaff
- Partner with product designers and product managers on new product interactions based on data and insights
- Focus on a few projects at a time and drive them to completion
- Support experiments and share insights so product wins can have a greater impact
- Work with our localization team to ensure A+ translation
- Report to the Director of Product Writing. We sit within the Design department, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo
✅ You have...
- A portfolio with compelling UX writing examples for a consumer app
- 3+ years of experience in both UX writing and consumer copywriting, including push notifications and emails
- A gift for expressing complicated things in plain language
- A creative turn of phrase that helps you write about the same thing several ways
- An ability to turn around revisions quickly
- A desire to write all day, every day
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York City
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience collaborating with translators
- Experience taking direction from senior writers
- Experience adapting to new tools and technology
- A Duolingo streak!
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
Core App Performance Team
The Core App Experience team is in charge of improving the user experience in core flows of the iOS and Android apps to drive user growth. Sitting in between the intersection of technical and product work, you will drive technical improvements in app open, session start and end, and improving the offline experience. We're looking for engineers who are willing to deep dive into the codebase and provide their suggestions on how to improve the everyday experience of our users.
🧠 You will...
- Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
- Develop, release, and maintain native iOS applications, primarily in Swift
- Mentor and set technical direction for junior engineers across the company
✅ You have...
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- A solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Programming experience in Swift
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Strong proficiency in Swift, with proven ability to build and maintain production-level applications
- Strong technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development for iPhone/iPad using Swift with Cocoa Touch and related frameworks
- Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
- Experience with multithreaded programming
- Experience writing unit tests and testable code
- Knowledge of iOS SDK performance tools and optimization techniques
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
We are hiring for multiple levels for any one of the following teams. Leveling is usually determined once all interviews are completed.
Math Team
As an iOS engineer on the Math team, you will help build the technology that changes how people around the world learn Math. The features that you ship will help learners to develop core math skills in a fun, engaging way. We’re looking for engineers who love building new products and features.
Notifications Team
As an iOS engineer on the Notifications team, you will build features that empower learners to build long-term habits by improving how we schedule, personalize, and deliver notifications. You will design and implement meaningful notification experiences while collaborating with backend, data science, and product teams. Notifications are fundamental to Duolingo, and we’re looking for engineers who are energized about experimenting and shipping features end-to-end.
Core App Performance Team
The Core App Experience team is in charge of improving the user experience in core flows of the iOS and Android apps to drive user growth. Sitting in between the intersection of technical and product work, you will drive technical improvements in app open, session start and end, and improving the offline experience. We're looking for engineers who are willing to deep dive into the codebase and provide their suggestions on how to improve the everyday experience of our users.
🧠 You will...
- Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
- Develop, release, and maintain native iOS applications, primarily in Swift
- Mentor and set technical direction for junior engineers across the company
✅ You have...
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- A solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Programming experience in Swift
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Strong proficiency in Swift, with proven ability to build and maintain production-level applications
- Strong technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development for iPhone/iPad using Swift with Cocoa Touch and related frameworks
- Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
- Experience with multithreaded programming
- Experience writing unit tests and testable code
- Knowledge of iOS SDK performance tools and optimization techniques
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
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. This isn't just executing on a req list. You'll help define what great looks like, influence how we think about product talent, and build the processes and relationships that make hiring a competitive advantage. If you love blending strategy with hands-on execution, operating at the intersection of recruiting and business, and leaving your fingerprints on a world-class team, this is the role for you.
🧠 You will...
- Own full-cycle recruiting for Product roles at all levels — ICs to senior leaders — building deep pipelines and consistently closing top talent.
- Be a true partner to the CPO, shaping hiring strategy, prioritizing roles, and helping define what great Product talent looks like at Duolingo.
- Lead and influence without direct authority, working across recruiting, sourcing, and business stakeholders to align processes, calibrate expectations, and drive outcomes.
- Drive sourcing strategy (roughly 25–30% of your time), going beyond inbound to build proactive outreach for senior and hard-to-fill roles.
- Use data to tell the story — diagnosing pipeline health, surfacing insights to leadership, and making decisions that balance speed with quality.
- Champion the candidate experience from first touch to offer close, making sure every interaction reflects Duolingo's brand and values.
- Build the infrastructure — whether that's interview frameworks, leveling guidance, or hiring playbooks — that scales beyond you.
✅ You have...
- Ability to work onsite in New York, NY, Monday–Thursday, with Friday optional
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful depth in Product hiring
- Experience partnering closely with senior leaders (VP/C-suite) to shape org strategy, not just fill seats
- A track record of hiring across levels — from PMs to Directors to VPs — with strong judgment on what "great" looks like at each
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ownership mindset to create structure where it doesn't exist
- Strong data fluency — you know how to use pipeline metrics to drive conversations and influence decisions
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience leading or mentoring a recruiting team, even informally
- Deep market knowledge of the Product talent landscape, including how to position Duolingo competitively
- A history of building repeatable hiring systems that improve quality and efficiency at scale
- And, of course… an impressive Duolingo streak.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
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. This isn't just executing on a req list. You'll help define what great looks like, influence how we think about product talent, and build the processes and relationships that make hiring a competitive advantage. If you love blending strategy with hands-on execution, operating at the intersection of recruiting and business, and leaving your fingerprints on a world-class team, this is the role for you.
🧠 You will...
- Own full-cycle recruiting for Product roles at all levels — ICs to senior leaders — building deep pipelines and consistently closing top talent.
- Be a true partner to the CPO, shaping hiring strategy, prioritizing roles, and helping define what great Product talent looks like at Duolingo.
- Lead and influence without direct authority, working across recruiting, sourcing, and business stakeholders to align processes, calibrate expectations, and drive outcomes.
- Drive sourcing strategy (roughly 25–30% of your time), going beyond inbound to build proactive outreach for senior and hard-to-fill roles.
- Use data to tell the story — diagnosing pipeline health, surfacing insights to leadership, and making decisions that balance speed with quality.
- Champion the candidate experience from first touch to offer close, making sure every interaction reflects Duolingo's brand and values.
- Build the infrastructure — whether that's interview frameworks, leveling guidance, or hiring playbooks — that scales beyond you.
✅ You have...
- Ability to work onsite in Pittsburgh, PA, Monday–Thursday, with Friday optional
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful depth in Product hiring
- Experience partnering closely with senior leaders (VP/C-suite) to shape org strategy, not just fill seats
- A track record of hiring across levels — from PMs to Directors to VPs — with strong judgment on what "great" looks like at each
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ownership mindset to create structure where it doesn't exist
- Strong data fluency — you know how to use pipeline metrics to drive conversations and influence decisions
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience leading or mentoring a recruiting team, even informally
- Deep market knowledge of the Product talent landscape, including how to position Duolingo competitively
- A history of building repeatable hiring systems that improve quality and efficiency at scale
- And, of course… an impressive Duolingo streak.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We are looking for an experienced AI Research Engineer to join our Duolingo Monetization team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as an AI research engineer, with extensive experience across various machine learning techniques including large language models, multi-armed bandits, and more. They will have experience at all levels of the ML stack, including feature engineering, developing training data, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, quality evaluations, deployment, and monitoring. On the Monetization team, we’re building AI systems to improve the learning experience while driving our business, including deploying our research into bandit models to balance revenue and retention. Given the broad set of AI domains, broad experience in AI/ML is highly desirable.
🧠 You will...
- Join a full-stack team of frontend, backend and other AI Research engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Contribute to the development and training of bandit models and large-scale neural network models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs, to align the models’ outputs with company objectives.
- Participate in and help drive strategic product and business decision making as a member of the Monetization leadership group.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in machine learning, particularly in LLMs and bandits, and apply this knowledge to drive advancements in our projects.
- Mentor team members, providing guidance and support in their professional development.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and efficient machine learning solutions.
✅ You have...
- Proven experience as an AI research engineer, for example, in LLMs, bandits, computer vision, or related fields.
- Strong background in training and fine-tuning large models in an applied setting.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning or artificial intelligence, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to manage and inspire a team.
- Deep understanding of machine learning concepts, frameworks, and best practices.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re looking to hire a Staff Product Researcher to join our Product Research team to work directly with Designers and Product Managers to help us build a high-quality experience for our learners. You’ll help shape a product used by millions of users around the world by integrating research into Duolingo’s unique product development process and generating insights that guide teams in choosing what to build and how to build it.
This is a high-impact, fast-paced role for a mixed-method researcher who can drive clarity in ambiguous spaces, influence product decisions, and deliver actionable insights at the pace of product development.
🧠 You will...
- Set research direction with cross-functional partners by identifying the highest-impact questions and translating them into a clear, prioritized research projects
- Lead end-to-end research across the product lifecycle, including 0→1 discovery on big bets, concept testing, and post-launch UX/UI iterations
- Develop strong product intuition to generate insights and product ideas that connect the learner experience to product strategy, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes
- Build durable visibility for research: establish systems for sharing outputs and deliver regular, decision-focused updates that keep stakeholders aligned
- Elevate research impact through leadership beyond your own projects: mentor other researchers, uplevel our research practices, and introduce innovative methods/tooling when it increases speed and rigor
✅ You have...
- 8+ years of experience leading product research for consumer-facing digital products, including owning complex problem spaces
- Mixed-method, collaborative research experience working with designers and product managers
- Experience using AI tools throughout the research process
- Demonstrated ability to generate clear and concise insights that deliver successful product outcomes
- Experience thriving in high-velocity environments while maintaining strong research rigor and craft
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience conducting international research or working with globally diverse audiences
- Familiarity with SQL
- Experience in consumer tech or gaming
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
With our learning app, we have developed a successful business by making learning fun. As our reach grows, we aim to teach even better and set the standard for language proficiency with the Duolingo Score. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the Duolingo Score team, define the vision, and drive product development to establish a globally recognized scoring system. Read our blog to learn more.
You will...
- Work with executive leadership to drive product strategy for the Duolingo Score team
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Partner with product designers to ensure a fun and delightful user experience in our product
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Perform experiment analysis on features and find opportunities for optimization
- Define your key performance indicator(s) that drive user growth, and achieve them!
You have...
- Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager at a software company
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Ability to utilize user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
- An instinct for creating simple and intuitive user experiences
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful, curious, and innovative
- Experience leading projects and teams
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
Duolingo reaches hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, and the Efficacy Research Lab exists to answer a fundamental question: Does that learning actually last? This is one of the most important research programs in consumer education, with a scale, dataset, and real-world impact that few academic or industry environments can match.
We’re looking for an exceptional research leader to guide the Lab through its next chapter, expanding its scope from Language into Math and future subjects. In this role, you will set the strategic vision for efficacy research at Duolingo, manage and develop a small team of researchers, and partner closely with senior leaders across the company. This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll shape the agenda, lead high-impact work, and remain deeply involved in the science.
This role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.
🧠 You will...
- Set the vision and strategic direction for Duolingo’s Efficacy Research Lab, with language learning as the primary focus and a growing mandate across Math and future subject areas.
- Lead the design and execution of rigorous efficacy research, from framing the right questions through study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and communication of results.
- Serve as a player-coach to a team of 3 researchers: setting priorities, providing scientific guidance, and contributing directly to the work where your expertise has the greatest leverage.
- Partner with Product, Learning Design, and company leadership to ensure efficacy research meaningfully informs product strategy and improves learner outcomes.
- In collaboration with Marketing and Communications, shape how Duolingo communicates learning outcomes externally, translating rigorous research into clear, credible narratives for learners, parents, educators, partners, and the press.
- Build and manage external research partnerships, from identifying collaborators and shaping proposals to overseeing execution and final deliverables.
- Represent Duolingo externally as a thought leader in learning science and efficacy research.
✅ You have...
- Research leadership and scientific credibility. PhD in education, learning sciences, cognitive science, educational psychology, psychometrics, or a related field, plus 12+ years of relevant experience. You have led ambitious research programs evaluating the effectiveness of educational products or interventions and have a strong record of peer-reviewed publications and/or other influential research outputs.
- Expertise in rigorous applied research. You can define a research agenda, design and evaluate studies using methods such as randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs, and large-scale observational analyses, and deliver findings that drive consequential decisions.
- Industry judgment and pragmatism. You know how to apply high scientific standards in a product environment. You understand the tradeoffs between ideal and feasible research designs and can deliver credible, decision-useful insights on business and product timelines. Meaningful industry experience is required.
Deep understanding of learning. You have deep expertise in how people learn and can connect measured outcomes to the mechanisms that drive them, making you a trusted partner to product and learning teams. - Exceptional communication and influence. You communicate clearly and persuasively across audiences, from researchers and executives to external stakeholders, and can translate complex findings into actionable recommendations and compelling public narratives.
- Advanced quantitative and technical skills. You bring deep expertise in statistics and quantitative methods, are fluent in R or Python, and are comfortable working with SQL and large-scale datasets.
- People leadership. You have experience managing and developing researchers, setting a high bar for quality, and helping a small team do its best work.
- Operational strength. You are highly organized and able to lead multiple research initiatives simultaneously across internal and external stakeholders.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience leading efficacy research across multiple subject areas, such as language, math, or science.
- Experience in EdTech and/or consumer technology.
- Experience working with large-scale behavioral data in a product or consumer technology environment.
- Experience serving as an external representative for a research organization, including with press, partners, or academic audiences.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
This role is an important part of the Design team, partnering with other designers and cross-functional teammates on features across our mobile apps, website, and communications. From polishing learner flows to supporting campaigns and community moments, you’ll help shape friendly, intuitive experiences that feel distinctly Duolingo. We care deeply about craft, so you’ll grow your skills while contributing to work that’s both user-friendly and fun, sweating the details to get them just right.
🧠You will...
- Design and prototype simple, playful learning experiences for the Duolingo app
- Drive large work streams across your team with independence—you’ll lead!
- Be a peer leader and mentor across Duolingo Design
- Work with other designers and artists to expand Duolingo’s design language
- Partner with engineers and product managers to define what we build, and how we get there
- Consider every part of a finely crafted experience: animation, copy, UI to business impact
✅ You have...
- An online portfolio featuring simple consumer mobile apps
- The highest bar for visual design and interaction details
- Fluency in creating high fidelity prototypes quickly
- Experience shipping products at scale in a product organization
- The ability to explain your work and decisions simply and concisely
- A big appetite for feedback to help you make your best work
- A bravery in solving hard problems within ambiguity and complexity
⭐Exceptional candidates will have...
- The desire to make decisions fast
- Know-how using AI and LLMs to make interesting ideas from scratch
- Deep understanding for brand, and a brand’s role in business
- Skills shaping motion and animation for user interfaces
- A track record of career growth within previous companies
- A reputation of being a top performer and is sought after by other leaders
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the Role
Duolingo’s Creative Technologists sit at the intersection of design, animation, and engineering—turning ambitious ideas into interactive, production-ready experiences that reach millions of learners. As a Creative Technology Manager, you’ll both manage a team of Creative Technologists and directly elevate how we use art, motion, and interactivity to create delightful, performant, and scalable learning experiences. You’ll lead the prototyping of new ideas, build production-ready systems, and shape the tooling that enables teams to move faster. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Creative Technology and is based in Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
🧠 You will...
- Act as the technical lead for cross-functional partners (product designers, product managers, and engineers) to unblock bold ideas and drive them from concept through delivery
- Develop your team’s skills and careers, giving clear, actionable feedback and coaching toward greater scope and impact
- Create and evolve complex animated UI using Rive or similar technologies for high-visibility features across the app
- Collaborate directly with iOS and Android engineers to design asset functionality, troubleshoot, and optimize performance
- Shape our design and animation ecosystem (Rive, Figma, Unity, internal tools) by developing tools, automations, and systems that scale high-quality output
✅ You have...
- 5+ years in roles adjacent to creative technology (e.g., technical animation, gameplay scripting, CG supervision, pipeline/TD work) with proven people management or leadership experience.
- A portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates:
- High-quality visuals delivered within real-world performance constraints
- Reducing complexity while achieving product goals
- Systems thinking (e.g., reusable animation or interaction systems)
- Tooling that meaningfully improves team workflows
- Prototyping savvy and end-to-end problem solving
- Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, C++, or similar).
- Excellent communication skills, including fluency in design-to-engineering handoffs, and communicating technical constraints to non-technical partners.
- Experience operating in highly ambiguous environments and independently driving projects with cross-functional dependencies.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience creating interactive animation for mobile products at scale
- Proficiency with Rive for building UI and designing complex user interactions
- A strong motion and design sensibility across 3D or 2D animation pipelines (Maya, Blender, Houdini, or Toon Boom, etc.)
- Understanding of game design principles, especially for learning contexts
- A passion for the craft and a care for their people.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
With our learning app, we have developed a successful business by making learning fun. As our reach grows, we aim to teach even better and set the standard for language proficiency with the Duolingo Score. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the Duolingo Score team, define the vision, and drive product development to establish a globally recognized scoring system. Read our blog to learn more.
You will...
- Work with executive leadership to drive product strategy for the Duolingo Score team
- Drive product features through their entire creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
- Perform qualitative and quantitative research to explore and validate feature ideas
- Partner with product designers to ensure a fun and delightful user experience in our product
- Work with engineers to help guide feature development
- Perform experiment analysis on features and find opportunities for optimization
- Define your key performance indicator(s) that drive user growth, and achieve them!
You have...
- Experience generating outstanding results as a Product Manager at a software company
- A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
- Ability to utilize user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
- An instinct for creating simple and intuitive user experiences
- Demonstrated ability to be resourceful, curious, and innovative
- Experience leading projects and teams
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or equivalent
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Corporate Counsel (Marketing) to be a legal partner to our Marketing team. You will advise on marketing and advertising initiatives across channels, ensuring our campaigns are compliant, creatively bold, and executed at pace. You’ll review and negotiate marketing agreements, clear rights for content, establish practical guardrails, and help teams move fast while managing risk. You’ll work closely with cross‑functional partners and outside counsel when needed, and contribute to lightweight processes and templates that scale with our marketing engine.
🧠 You will...
- Serve as day‑to‑day legal advisor to Marketing on campaigns, social content, creator programs, experiential activations, and press moments — helping teams ship on time with clear, practical guidance.
- Review and negotiate marketing agreements, including talent/influencer contracts, production SOWs, vendor/MSAs, licensing, NDAs, and promotional terms; create and improve templates and playbooks to increase speed and consistency.
- Own rights and clearances for marketing assets, and advise on usage windows, territories, and platforms; partner with stakeholders to avoid takedowns and disputes.
- Advise on advertising and consumer protection laws (e.g., endorsements/disclosures, substantiation, contests/sweepstakes), and maintain guardrails that enable bold but compliant creative.
- Track and socialize updates to relevant regulations and platform policies; run brief trainings for marketers and creators on disclosures, usage rights, and brand safety.
- Assist in other legal matters depending on interest and need.
✅ You have...
- J.D. (or international equivalent) and active bar membership in good standing.
- 4-8+ years of relevant legal experience (e.g., clerkship, law firm, in-house), including familiarity with multiple relevant areas of law (e.g., copyright, trademark, right of publicity and NIL, advertising, claim substantiation) and experience advising on marketing and advertising campaigns, including social media.
- Strong contract drafting/negotiation skills across talent/influencer, production, licensing, and vendor agreements; comfort balancing risk with business goals and speed.
- Clear, concise communication tailored to creative and non‑legal stakeholders; ability to give actionable guidance and explain trade‑offs under tight timelines.
- Proven cross‑functional partnership and judgment in fast‑moving environments; ability to prioritize, create lightweight processes, and keep teams unblocked.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Strong interest in Duolingo and its mission.
- Deep familiarity with social media marketing including working with social media agencies, particularly outside the United States.
- Experience handling marketing-related disputes.
- Experience with contests, sweepstakes, or promotional offers.
- Experience working in the music or entertainment industry.
- Interest in learning new areas of law and how they interact with new technologies such as targeted advertising, globalization, social media, and generative AI.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Senior Talent Attraction Partner to partner closely with our industry-leading recruiting team, driving both outbound and referral talent efforts. In this role, you’ll be on the front lines of identifying, engaging, and inspiring top talent to join our mission.
🧠 You will...
- Partner with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to develop and implement tailored sourcing strategies for high-volume and niche technical roles, with a key focus on Design and Creative roles..
- Proactively build and maintain a strong pipeline of top-tier technical talent using a mix of outbound sourcing and CRM re-engagement
- Attend intake meetings to deeply understand each role’s requirements
- Conduct recruiter screens to evaluate technical alignment and share calibrated recommendations with the hiring manager.
- Own the creation of market maps and talent intelligence reports that provide total addressable market (TAM) insights, inform sourcing strategies, and help prioritize pipeline efforts.
- Run A/B tests on outreach strategies and continuously iterate to improve candidate funnel performance.
- Balance speed and precision, reaching out to volume at scale without sacrificing personalization or quality of engagement.
✅ You have...
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of sourcing experience with a focus on quality outbound support for Design and Creative roles
- Proven ability to develop and nurture relationships with diverse and hard-to-reach talent pools.
- Proficiency in G-Suite, Greenhouse, and sourcing tools (Gem and SeekOut).
- Fluent in Boolean logic and skilled in CRM re-engagement searches to unlock value from talent communities.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and iterating on sourcing strategies as business needs evolve.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A data-driven approach that balances speed and precision in candidate engagement.
- Experience reviewing portfolios.
- A long-running Duolingo streak (bonus points 😄).
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
Duolingo reaches hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, and the Efficacy Research Lab exists to answer a fundamental question: Does that learning actually last? This is one of the most important research programs in consumer education, with a scale, dataset, and real-world impact that few academic or industry environments can match.
We’re looking for an exceptional research leader to guide the Lab through its next chapter, expanding its scope from Language into Math and future subjects. In this role, you will set the strategic vision for efficacy research at Duolingo, manage and develop a small team of researchers, and partner closely with senior leaders across the company. This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll shape the agenda, lead high-impact work, and remain deeply involved in the science.
This role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.
🧠 You will...
- Set the vision and strategic direction for Duolingo’s Efficacy Research Lab, with language learning as the primary focus and a growing mandate across Math and future subject areas.
- Lead the design and execution of rigorous efficacy research, from framing the right questions through study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and communication of results.
- Serve as a player-coach to a team of 3 researchers: setting priorities, providing scientific guidance, and contributing directly to the work where your expertise has the greatest leverage.
- Partner with Product, Learning Design, and company leadership to ensure efficacy research meaningfully informs product strategy and improves learner outcomes.
- In collaboration with Marketing and Communications, shape how Duolingo communicates learning outcomes externally, translating rigorous research into clear, credible narratives for learners, parents, educators, partners, and the press.
- Build and manage external research partnerships, from identifying collaborators and shaping proposals to overseeing execution and final deliverables.
- Represent Duolingo externally as a thought leader in learning science and efficacy research.
✅ You have...
- Research leadership and scientific credibility. PhD in education, learning sciences, cognitive science, educational psychology, psychometrics, or a related field, plus 12+ years of relevant experience. You have led ambitious research programs evaluating the effectiveness of educational products or interventions and have a strong record of peer-reviewed publications and/or other influential research outputs.
- Expertise in rigorous applied research. You can define a research agenda, design and evaluate studies using methods such as randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs, and large-scale observational analyses, and deliver findings that drive consequential decisions.
- Industry judgment and pragmatism. You know how to apply high scientific standards in a product environment. You understand the tradeoffs between ideal and feasible research designs and can deliver credible, decision-useful insights on business and product timelines. Meaningful industry experience is required.
Deep understanding of learning. You have deep expertise in how people learn and can connect measured outcomes to the mechanisms that drive them, making you a trusted partner to product and learning teams. - Exceptional communication and influence. You communicate clearly and persuasively across audiences, from researchers and executives to external stakeholders, and can translate complex findings into actionable recommendations and compelling public narratives.
- Advanced quantitative and technical skills. You bring deep expertise in statistics and quantitative methods, are fluent in R or Python, and are comfortable working with SQL and large-scale datasets.
- People leadership. You have experience managing and developing researchers, setting a high bar for quality, and helping a small team do its best work.
- Operational strength. You are highly organized and able to lead multiple research initiatives simultaneously across internal and external stakeholders.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience leading efficacy research across multiple subject areas, such as language, math, or science.
- Experience in EdTech and/or consumer technology.
- Experience working with large-scale behavioral data in a product or consumer technology environment.
- Experience serving as an external representative for a research organization, including with press, partners, or academic audiences.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Product Design Manager to lead and grow a high-performing team shaping delightful, effective experiences used by millions of learners. You’ll manage designers, set quality and craft standards, partner closely with product and engineering, and drive strategy and execution for a critical product area. This role reports into the Head of Design for Growth and sits within Duolingo’s Design team.
🧠 You will...
- Grow and lead a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers and design leaders who consistently deliver high-quality work and learner-focused outcomes.
- Develop your team’s skills and careers, giving clear, actionable feedback and coaching toward greater scope and impact.
- Partner deeply with Product and Engineering leaders to set strategy, plan effectively, and hit product and business metrics.
- Uphold and elevate a high bar for design craft and usability across end-to-end experiences, from visual design to interaction details and animation.
- Use data and experimentation to inform decisions, measure outcomes, and iterate for impact.
- Work directly with executives and our CEO in building excellent products.
- Champion a creative, learner-first culture that balances bold bets with rigorous, data-driven improvements.
✅ You have...
- 8+ years in product design with proven people management experience at a comparable tech company.
- A track record of building, scaling, and developing high-performing design teams and recruiting diverse talent.
- Experience partnering with PM and Engineering to define strategy, plan roadmaps, and deliver measurable results.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate product rationale and design feedback clearly to executives and cross-functional partners.
- A strong grasp of data-informed design; comfortable setting success metrics and reviewing experiments.
- Fluency in modern design tools and practices; able to give incisive, craft-level feedback even when not the hands-on designer.
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, or New York City, NY.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A portfolio that showcases exceptional outcomes and craft through the work of their teams.
- Experience owning large end-to-end projects, while also being able to deliver at speed.
- Demonstrated organizational savvy with strong relationships across functions and levels.
- A love for the craft and a care for their people.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
This role is a key part of the Design team—Duolingo’s key creative partner across nearly every project. From our mobile apps and website to our brand voice, email newsletters, and community events, the Design team helps shape the full user experience. At Duolingo, we take pride in crafting experiences that are both user-friendly and fun—and we sweat the details to get them just right.
You will...
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Work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app
-
Play a leadership role on the product design team
-
Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
-
Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
-
Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
-
Work in a highly enthusiastic fashion with the design and product teams
-
Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact
-
Use a mix of internal and third-party AI tools at every step of your creative process
You have...
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An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples
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Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role
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A desire to strive for excellence in your work until all details are attended to
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The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions, and seek feedback to help you produce your best work
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Experience ideating, building, and prototyping with AI tools, like ChatGPT and Cursor
Exceptional candidates will have...
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Experience with managing early-career designers and an interest in developing design talent
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Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
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Illustration and/or animation skill-set
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Experience participating in or leading user research sessions
- Shipped AI-driven products
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role
Design the teams that design Duolingo.
This role reports to the Head of Product Design, and as a Design Director, you’ll be the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo—from our mobile apps and website to the brand voice and email newsletters, and even community events. At Duolingo, we take pride in and agonize over crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone.
🧠 You will...
- Grow and lead a talented, diverse, and inclusive team of designers and leaders that consistently delivers high-quality products
- Mentor and develop the skills, talents, and careers of the designers and design managers on your team, coaching them to success and impact
- Collaborate closely with leaders in other functions (Product and Engineering) to ensure that product areas are both planning well and hitting their metrics
- Build a thriving culture where designers do high-quality work and uphold our outstanding product experience
- Design and scale the organization, partnering closely with Leadership and Talent Acquisition on headcount budgeting and forecasting
✅ You have...
- 10+ years of experience in product design as a people manager at a similar or later-stage tech company, including experience managing managers
- Experience sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding for your team, as well as spot promising design talent
- Consistent track record of effectively managing people, including developing talent on your teams and recruiting a diverse team that reflects our learners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills that lead to effective and concrete output
- Experience defining and influencing product strategy
- An understanding and appreciation for the accurate application of data and metrics in product design
- Attention to detail and a focus on excellence
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A portfolio of exceptional visual design and craft, as done by their teams
- Organizational savviness and the ability to build relationships with leaders of all functions
- Worked at a company with very high design standards
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the Role
Duolingo’s Creative Technologists sit at the intersection of design, animation, and engineering—turning ambitious ideas into interactive, production-ready experiences that reach millions of learners. As a Creative Technology Manager, you’ll both manage a team of Creative Technologists and directly elevate how we use art, motion, and interactivity to create delightful, performant, and scalable learning experiences. You’ll lead the prototyping of new ideas, build production-ready systems, and shape the tooling that enables teams to move faster. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Creative Technology and is based in Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
🧠 You will...
- Act as the technical lead for cross-functional partners (product designers, product managers, and engineers) to unblock bold ideas and drive them from concept through delivery
- Develop your team’s skills and careers, giving clear, actionable feedback and coaching toward greater scope and impact
- Create and evolve complex animated UI using Rive or similar technologies for high-visibility features across the app
- Collaborate directly with iOS and Android engineers to design asset functionality, troubleshoot, and optimize performance
- Shape our design and animation ecosystem (Rive, Figma, Unity, internal tools) by developing tools, automations, and systems that scale high-quality output
✅ You have...
- 5+ years in roles adjacent to creative technology (e.g., technical animation, gameplay scripting, CG supervision, pipeline/TD work) with proven people management or leadership experience.
- A portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates:
- High-quality visuals delivered within real-world performance constraints
- Reducing complexity while achieving product goals
- Systems thinking (e.g., reusable animation or interaction systems)
- Tooling that meaningfully improves team workflows
- Prototyping savvy and end-to-end problem solving
- Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, C++, or similar).
- Excellent communication skills, including fluency in design-to-engineering handoffs, and communicating technical constraints to non-technical partners.
- Experience operating in highly ambiguous environments and independently driving projects with cross-functional dependencies.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience creating interactive animation for mobile products at scale
- Proficiency with Rive for building UI and designing complex user interactions
- A strong motion and design sensibility across 3D or 2D animation pipelines (Maya, Blender, Houdini, or Toon Boom, etc.)
- Understanding of game design principles, especially for learning contexts
- A passion for the craft and a care for their people.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will balance speed and rigor to resolve ambiguity and turn one-off wins into scalable systems.
As a Strategy & Business Operations Manager at Duolingo, you will play a key role in shaping Duolingo’s path towards becoming a 100-year company. You will partner closely with leaders across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more to create clarity and alignment that unlocks faster progress for Duolingo’s top priorities.
This role is based in our Pittsburgh HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week.
🧠 You will...
- Develop actionable strategies: collaborate with cross-functional leaders to combine market understanding, user insights, and product vision into strategies that teams will pursue to achieve Duolingo's mission
- Sprint to assess opportunities & markets: identify and assess compelling opportunities for Duolingo. This spans problem-space definition, hypothesis generation, industry research, execution and iteration
- Lead with data, structure, and judgment: establish success metrics, build clear frameworks, and make trade-offs across competing priorities
- Partner cross-functionally: work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance
- Learn and grow: rapidly gain new skills, methods, and industry learnings as you deliver world-class strategy work alongside talented colleagues across disciplines
✅ You have...
- Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to thrive with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action
- Analytical chops and logical thinking: develops data and fact-based understanding of complex problems. Able to simplify findings to clear conclusions
- Strong people skills, including a demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
- Early career: 3+ years of professional experience
- Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience in a strategy or biz ops function, strategy consulting, product management or strategic corporate development
- Strong knowledge of and passion for the consumer tech industry
- Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services
- Experience working with global / international teams
- Experience leading cross-functional projects in a high-growth environment
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re looking to hire a Staff Product Researcher to join our Product Research team to work directly with Designers and Product Managers to help us build a high-quality experience for our learners. You’ll help shape a product used by millions of users around the world by integrating research into Duolingo’s unique product development process and generating insights that guide teams in choosing what to build and how to build it.
This is a high-impact, fast-paced role for a mixed-method researcher who can drive clarity in ambiguous spaces, influence product decisions, and deliver actionable insights at the pace of product development.
🧠 You will...
- Set research direction with cross-functional partners by identifying the highest-impact questions and translating them into a clear, prioritized research projects
- Lead end-to-end research across the product lifecycle, including 0→1 discovery on big bets, concept testing, and post-launch UX/UI iterations
- Develop strong product intuition to generate insights and product ideas that connect the learner experience to product strategy, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes
- Build durable visibility for research: establish systems for sharing outputs and deliver regular, decision-focused updates that keep stakeholders aligned
- Elevate research impact through leadership beyond your own projects: mentor other researchers, uplevel our research practices, and introduce innovative methods/tooling when it increases speed and rigor
✅ You have...
- 8+ years of experience leading product research for consumer-facing digital products, including owning complex problem spaces
- Mixed-method, collaborative research experience working with designers and product managers
- Experience using AI tools throughout the research process
- Demonstrated ability to generate clear and concise insights that deliver successful product outcomes
- Experience thriving in high-velocity environments while maintaining strong research rigor and craft
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience conducting international research or working with globally diverse audiences
- Familiarity with SQL
- Experience in consumer tech or gaming
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Product Design Manager to lead and grow a high-performing team shaping delightful, effective experiences used by millions of learners. You’ll manage designers, set quality and craft standards, partner closely with product and engineering, and drive strategy and execution for a critical product area. This role reports into the Head of Design for Growth and sits within Duolingo’s Design team.
🧠 You will...
- Grow and lead a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers and design leaders who consistently deliver high-quality work and learner-focused outcomes.
- Develop your team’s skills and careers, giving clear, actionable feedback and coaching toward greater scope and impact.
- Partner deeply with Product and Engineering leaders to set strategy, plan effectively, and hit product and business metrics.
- Uphold and elevate a high bar for design craft and usability across end-to-end experiences, from visual design to interaction details and animation.
- Use data and experimentation to inform decisions, measure outcomes, and iterate for impact.
- Work directly with executives and our CEO in building excellent products.
- Champion a creative, learner-first culture that balances bold bets with rigorous, data-driven improvements.
✅ You have...
- 8+ years in product design with proven people management experience at a comparable tech company.
- A track record of building, scaling, and developing high-performing design teams and recruiting diverse talent.
- Experience partnering with PM and Engineering to define strategy, plan roadmaps, and deliver measurable results.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate product rationale and design feedback clearly to executives and cross-functional partners.
- A strong grasp of data-informed design; comfortable setting success metrics and reviewing experiments.
- Fluency in modern design tools and practices; able to give incisive, craft-level feedback even when not the hands-on designer.
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, or New York City, NY.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A portfolio that showcases exceptional outcomes and craft through the work of their teams.
- Experience owning large end-to-end projects, while also being able to deliver at speed.
- Demonstrated organizational savvy with strong relationships across functions and levels.
- A love for the craft and a care for their people.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
This role is a key part of the Design team—Duolingo’s key creative partner across nearly every project. From our mobile apps and website to our brand voice, email newsletters, and community events, the Design team helps shape the full user experience. At Duolingo, we take pride in crafting experiences that are both user-friendly and fun—and we sweat the details to get them just right.
You will...
-
Work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app
-
Play a leadership role on the product design team
-
Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
-
Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
-
Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
-
Work in a highly enthusiastic fashion with the design and product teams
-
Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact
-
Use a mix of internal and third-party AI tools at every step of your creative process
You have...
-
An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples
-
Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role
-
A desire to strive for excellence in your work until all details are attended to
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The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions and seek feedback to help you produce your best work
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Experience ideating, building and prototyping with AI tools, like ChatGPT and Cursor
Exceptional candidates will have...
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Experience with managing early-career designers and an interest in developing design talent
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Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
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Illustration and/or animation skill-set
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Experience participating in or leading user research sessions
- Shipped AI-driven products
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Senior Talent Attraction Partner to partner closely with our industry-leading recruiting team, driving both outbound and referral talent efforts. In this role, you’ll be on the front lines of identifying, engaging, and inspiring top talent to join our mission.
🧠 You will...
- Partner with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to develop and implement tailored sourcing strategies for high-volume and niche technical roles, with a key focus on Design and Creative roles.
- Proactively build and maintain a strong pipeline of top-tier technical talent using a mix of outbound sourcing and CRM re-engagement
- Attend intake meetings to deeply understand each role’s requirements
- Conduct recruiter screens to evaluate technical alignment and share calibrated recommendations with the hiring manager.
- Own the creation of market maps and talent intelligence reports that provide total addressable market (TAM) insights, inform sourcing strategies, and help prioritize pipeline efforts.
- Run A/B tests on outreach strategies and continuously iterate to improve candidate funnel performance.
- Balance speed and precision, reaching out to volume at scale without sacrificing personalization or quality of engagement.
✅ You have...
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of sourcing experience with a focus on quality outbound support for Design and Creative roles
- Proven ability to develop and nurture relationships with diverse and hard-to-reach talent pools.
- Proficiency in G-Suite, Greenhouse, and sourcing tools (Gem and SeekOut).
- Fluent in Boolean logic and skilled in CRM re-engagement searches to unlock value from talent communities.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and iterating on sourcing strategies as business needs evolve.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A data-driven approach that balances speed and precision in candidate engagement.
- Experience reviewing portfolios.
- A long-running Duolingo streak (bonus points 😄).
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role
Design the teams that design Duolingo.
This role reports to the Head of Product Design, and as a Design Director, you’ll be the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo—from our mobile apps and website to the brand voice and email newsletters, and even community events. At Duolingo, we take pride in and agonize over crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone.
🧠 You will...
- Grow and lead a talented, diverse, and inclusive team of designers and leaders that consistently delivers high-quality products
- Mentor and develop the skills, talents, and careers of the designers and design managers on your team, coaching them to success and impact
- Collaborate closely with leaders in other functions (Product and Engineering) to ensure that product areas are both planning well and hitting their metrics
- Build a thriving culture where designers do high-quality work and uphold our outstanding product experience
- Design and scale the organization, partnering closely with Leadership and Talent Acquisition on headcount budgeting and forecasting
✅ You have...
- 10+ years of experience in product design as a people manager at a similar or later-stage tech company, including experience managing managers
- Experience sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding for your team, as well as spot promising design talent
- Consistent track record of effectively managing people, including developing talent on your teams and recruiting a diverse team that reflects our learners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills that lead to effective and concrete output
- Experience defining and influencing product strategy
- An understanding and appreciation for the accurate application of data and metrics in product design
- Attention to detail and a focus on excellence
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- A portfolio of exceptional visual design and craft, as done by their teams
- Organizational savviness and the ability to build relationships with leaders of all functions
- Worked at a company with very high design standards
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.
Sign up for job alerts here.
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