Jobs at Duolingo

Develop and lead integrated, culture-focused brand campaigns across social, video, experiential, out-of-home, partnerships, and emerging channels. Translate strategy and cultural insights into creative concepts, direct multidisciplinary collaborators and agencies, present recommendations to senior stakeholders, protect brand identity, and use campaign results to improve future work. The role combines hands-on art direction, creative leadership, production oversight, and mentoring without direct people management.

Develop financial models for forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, and earnings calls. Analyze monetization, pricing, product experiments, subscriber growth, and revenue drivers to guide business decisions. Translate complex financial analysis into actionable insights for executives and cross-functional partners. Own strategic workstreams and prepare materials for the Board, earnings calls, and senior leadership.

Lead senior director and executive recruiting searches across technical and non-technical functions. Responsibilities include role shaping, market mapping, talent sourcing, structured assessment design, executive partnership, candidate experience, offer closing, and using data and AI to improve recruiting outcomes.

Conduct AI research using large real-world datasets; prototype, evaluate, and productionize models; collaborate with researchers and engineers on product features and publications; and solve complex learning problems through experimentation and scalable implementation.

Own the core app experience, including shared surfaces, user accounts, messaging, and session functionality. Partner with engineering, design, and product teams to improve app quality, address user pain points, and develop scalable systems and frameworks. Create high-impact roadmaps that balance immediate launches with long-term investments while ensuring a cohesive experience for millions of daily users.

Leads Duolingo’s 40+ person Learning Experience organization, strengthening its leadership, learning design, product capabilities, and organizational effectiveness. Responsibilities include organizational design, hiring, leadership development, performance management, succession planning, resource allocation, accountability, executive communication, and cross-functional partnership with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data. The role guides teams in improving learning experiences across language, math, music, and chess while using AI to accelerate product development and content generation.

Manually test Duolingo features across iOS, Android, and Web using regression, exploratory, acceptance, and usability testing. Validate releases and bug fixes, document reproducible issues, collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners, identify quality risks, prioritize testing, and advocate for learner experience. The role also involves contributing to QA processes while developing product and testing expertise with guidance from senior teammates.

Own Duolingo’s global paid user acquisition strategy and growth goals across multiple products and 100+ markets. Lead a performance marketing team, manage multichannel budgets, optimize campaigns, evaluate incrementality and user quality, and oversee creative testing. Partner with agencies, ad technology providers, Product, Engineering, Social, Brand, and regional marketing teams to improve acquisition, retention, measurement, and return on investment. Provide clear strategic recommendations to leadership and scale effective channels.

Lead Duolingo’s Experiments Team and oversee the in-house experimentation platform supporting A/B test design, execution, measurement, automation, and backend feature controls. Expand statistical capabilities, improve platform scalability and cost efficiency, advise product teams on experiment strategy, and partner cross-functionally to shape product development. Manage, hire, develop, and retain software engineers while building scalable infrastructure for large datasets.

Leads Duolingo’s global paid user acquisition strategy, budget, team, and performance across 100+ markets and multiple products. Responsibilities include managing multichannel acquisition, incrementality testing, saturation modeling, LTV and ROI frameworks, creative production, agency and ad tech partners, investment planning, and executive reporting. The role partners with Finance, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Creative, and Brand teams to improve measurement, attribution, retention, and acquisition efficiency.

Analyze behavioral data, apply advanced analytics, causal inference, machine learning, and AI to evaluate product experiments and estimate feature impact. The intern will derive insights for product roadmaps, collaborate with product and engineering teams, communicate recommendations to senior leaders, and support a fact-based data science culture.

Leads employee relations cases, workplace investigations, leave and accommodation programs, and complex return-to-work matters. Advises managers and People Business Partners, manages external vendors, identifies trends, and improves policies, processes, employee experience, and program effectiveness across a global workforce.

Conduct research and develop AI solutions for Duolingo’s education products. The role involves solving complex problems, prototyping and evaluating approaches, implementing effective solutions at scale, collaborating cross-functionally, and sharing findings internally and with the broader research community.

Leads strategic, cross-functional technical programs across Growth and the broader organization. Responsibilities include roadmap definition, organizational change management, executive alignment, risk and dependency management, launch execution, process improvement, and mentoring TPMs and engineering leads. The role requires technical credibility, autonomy, strong influence without direct authority, and experience transforming engineering organizations. Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, LLM products, large datasets, and AWS is advantageous.

Owns the Duolingo English Test proctoring quality standard, calibration and adjudication programs, certification, ongoing adult learning, and quality measurement. The role develops rubrics, training, decision guidance, and audit-ready processes; analyzes disagreement and performance data; directs specialists and adjudicators; and partners with Psychometrics, Security, Operations, Product, and Engineering to validate human and AI-assisted workflows.

Build and grow Duolingo’s programmatic advertising business by developing agency and advertiser relationships, selling premium PMP and PG deals, managing revenue forecasts and quotas, and negotiating commitments. The role develops pricing, packaging, measurement, and audience-data propositions; partners with Ad Operations on deal setup and delivery; coordinates with direct sales and account management; and establishes scalable sales processes and playbooks.

Develop culturally relevant social-native creative for Duolingo across social, experiential, OOH, partnerships, events, and products. Create content, concepts, short-form video, and cultural activations; provide feedback to creators; steward brand voice and visual language; present ideas; and collaborate with marketing, design, production, PR, partnerships, and legal teams. The role requires hands-on execution, strategic thinking, strong copywriting, art direction, and deep internet culture fluency.

Own and improve Duolingo’s language-learning products from ideation through experimentation, release, analysis, and iteration. Develop product strategy, conduct qualitative and quantitative research, guide engineers, align cross-functional teams and leadership, and optimize learning experiences to make language education engaging and effective.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will improve the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of Duolingo’s distributed systems. Responsibilities include diagnosing production infrastructure, designing systems, developing automation and platforms, conducting launch reviews and root cause analyses, maintaining incident response and postmortem practices, reducing operational toil, and supporting engineering teams during feature releases.

Develop and improve trustworthy quarterly user-growth forecasts at Duolingo. Collaborate with Product, Finance, Strategy, leadership, and other data scientists to translate business and product changes into analytical requirements and actionable recommendations. Validate forecasting methodologies, build robust repeatable forecasting processes, communicate complex findings clearly, and mentor junior data scientists. The role requires strong quantitative expertise, real-world forecasting experience, and fluency in SQL, Python, and analytics engineering ecosystems.