Role details
- 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 New York City office. 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
- Relevant experience: 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in strategy, business operations, consulting, product, or a related field
- Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available
Exceptional candidates will have...
- 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
- The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons.
- The posted range is subject to change in the future.
- For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
- We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!
Salary Range:
$129,200 — $174,800 USD
Benefits
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