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.
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About the role
- This person will embed with one or more product development teams, working collaboratively and cross-functionally to increase the impact of product iteration and experimentation.
- The ideal candidate combines deep technical fluency in data science and machine learning with exceptional communication skills and an acute product sense.
- They can identify the right questions to ask, use data analysis to create clarity in decision making, and deliver scalable data products and models as the situation demands.
🧠 You will...
- Embed within one or more product development teams, building strong stakeholder connections and delivering data products and analyses that move team outcomes.
- Collaborate across functional boundaries with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Finance across every phase of product development.
- Own the prioritization and ROI assessment of Data Science opportunities within your area.
- Translate complex findings into clear narratives for leadership and cross-functional partners. Influence strategic decisions through technical depth and effective communication.
- Contribute to the analytical foundations within Growth, developing definitions, methodological guidelines, and self-serve dashboards that enable others to operate with data fluency.
- Mentor and learn from other Data Scientists both within the Growth pillar and across the company.
✅ You have...
- Experience working as a Data Scientist embedded with or supporting a product development team. You have experience creating value from data in messy real-world settings.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to distill complex quantitative work into crisp, actionable insights for diverse audiences.
- A graduate degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent demonstrated expertise in formal analysis methodology.
- Strong command of SQL, Python or R, AI tools, and data/analytics engineering ecosystems.
- Fluency with standard machine learning and predictive modeling techniques.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience operating at a high-growth, data-intensive consumer technology company, particularly in the user growth area.
- Experience building, maintaining, and improving production machine learning models and the infrastructure that supports them.
- An impressive Duolingo streak.
- 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:
$182,800 — $247,300 USD
Benefits
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