VP of Learning Design

About Duolingo Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Learning a new language is hard, but staying motivated is often the hardest part. That’s why we use fun, bite-sized, game-like lessons designed to keep you engaged and to drive real learning outcomes. Our approach is grounded in efficacy: we continuously test and improve our methods to ensure learners make meaningful progress. We also believe in democratizing education by offering an effective, high-quality free product. Developing a great free product is essential to our mission, ensuring that anyone with a smartphone can access learning that works. When it comes to utilizing AI tools, we have a golden rule: we use it when it clearly improves outcomes for learners. We don’t use it as a shortcut or a replacement for people, but as a tool to enhance learning experiences and efficacy. Duolingo has been named to: Fast Company’s Most Innovative Education Company (2026, 2022), Apple Design Award (2023), TIME100 Most Influential Companies (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), among others.

Duolingo

Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language.

Language EducationLanguage CertificationLanguage Proficiency AssessmentProduct DesignProduct ManagementSoftware EngineeringData Sciencepedagogycurriculumlearning

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duolingo.com

501-1,000 employees

Higher Education

Pittsburgh, PA

2011

Public Company

899k LinkedIn followers

Raised $183.3M

• Help millions of people learn more effectively, identifying opportunities to improve how Duolingo teaches and guiding LX leaders to turn those opportunities into better learning experiences.
• Build a high-performing LX organization and leadership team, owning organizational design, hiring, leadership development, performance management, succession planning, and team health.
• Ensure LX delivers on its commitments, allocating resources to the highest-impact work, holding leaders accountable for results, and helping them resolve obstacles.
• Strengthen product capabilities across LX, helping leaders coach their teams to make sound product decisions, write clear specs and roadmaps, present effectively at Product Review, and use AI to ship small experiments independently.
• Represent LX in key cross-functional forums, build strong partnerships, and help its leaders influence product decisions and resolve cross-team challenges.

• Experience leading a multidisciplinary organization through directors and other senior leaders in a fast-moving, product-led environment.
• A passion for people leadership, with a track record of developing strong leaders, empowering teams to take ownership, and delivering results through others.
• Meaningful grounding in learning design, learning science, or a related discipline, with the judgment to coach experts and connect learning principles to product decisions.
• Experience shaping consumer products through the teams you lead, including using AI to accelerate product development or content generation.
• Excellent executive communication and judgment, with the ability to make difficult tradeoffs, influence senior leaders across functions, and lead through ambiguity and change.
• Ability to work from or relocate to New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid (4+1) schedule.
• Exceptional candidates will have
• Experience building AI-powered learning experiences or systems for generating and evaluating learning content at scale.
• Experience at a founder-led or rapidly scaling consumer technology company.
• Significant experience using Duolingo, and opinions about how to make it better.
• 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!

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