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Come lead partnerships and business development for Duolingo in LATAM (with particular focus on Mexico and Brazil).
Partnerships are a rapidly growing function at Duolingo, with a global team based in New York and regional leadership in Europe and Asia. We are now seeking an experienced business development leader to bring a strategic, structured, and proactive approach to scaling our business in LATAM.
In this role, you will manage existing partnerships and pipeline while sourcing and developing new opportunities. You will build data-driven business cases to establish strategic partnerships that drive user growth, brand awareness, and monetization, including support for brand licensing partnerships.
As our resident expert on the region, you will demonstrate a deep understanding of the market dynamics and use your skills and network to build partnerships that are value-accretive to Duolingo and our partners. Reporting to the Global Head of Consumer Partnerships, you will collaborate with marketing, design, product, and engineering teams in the US and around the world.
You will...
- Leverage market insights and a deep understanding of the regional partnership landscape to develop and communicate an effective LATAM partnership strategy, with a focus on Mexico and Brazil
- Lead our existing partnerships and pipeline in LATAM across verticals (app stores, telcos, media and entertainment, banks, public institutions, payment providers, etc.)
- Expand Duolingo’s partnership portfolio by sourcing new opportunities with measurable impact on key business metrics
- Build compelling, quantitative business cases to support strategic partnership investments
- Negotiate and implement partnerships across user growth, brand, and monetization
- Collaborate with global and local Marketing on brand partnerships and to amplify partnership launches
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence product integrations critical to successful partnership execution
You have...
- 7+ years of business development experience, with a track record of successfully developing partnerships in digital consumer (B2C) technology
- Experience working in consulting, banking, or business development
- Experience in conceiving, developing, and implementing partnerships throughout their full cycles, from deal sourcing to building business cases, negotiating agreements, driving, and tracking results
- Deep cultural context and immersion in the regional landscape, and are able to use your network to launch impactful partnerships
- Ambitious spirit with a track record of achieving great results by building long-lasting external relationships, collaborating effectively with multiple internal teams to drive ideas to execution, and taking a test and scale approach
- Critical thinking skills and structured thought processes, with the ability to build and communicate compelling, data-driven narratives
- Proficient in Spanish with excellent English speaking and writing skills
- Ability to travel internationally frequently, specifically to New York City, Pittsburgh (HQ), and across LATAM
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services
- Experience living and working in multiple LATAM markets
- Working proficiency in Portuguese
- An MBA or equivalent experience from a reputable university
- Excitement for our mission to make high-quality language learning accessible to everyone
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core engineering and product roles, with required jurisdictions showing posted ranges and immigration filings implying a strong base-salary floor. Public compensation snapshots indicate senior packages can scale higher, supporting a clear, market-aligned structure.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with mental-health resources and fertility support as core offerings. Coverage for dependents and strong wellness benefits are consistently highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — About 20 days of PTO plus a two‑week company winter break and paid holidays provide substantial time away. A formal sabbatical at 10 years further expands long‑term recharge options.
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Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages. Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Some of our products include: 1. Duolingo: The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language! 2. DET (Duolingo English Test): A modern language proficiency tool designed for today's international students and institutions. It offers an English proficiency score, video interview, and writing sample in an accessible, efficient, and secure testing experience. 3. Duolingo Math: An app that can make math be fun. For everyone. Students can focus on elementary math, which covers classroom topics, or adults can focus on brain training, which strengthens mental math skills and covers more advanced topics. 4. Duolingo ABC: An educational learning app that offers immersive lessons to teach preschool to second grade kids reading fundamentals. Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best. Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives. Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. Duolingo has been named: 2022 Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022 Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company 2021 Forbes Best Startup Employers 2020, 2018, 2017, 2013 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company 2020 Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor 2018 Inc. Best Places to Work 2018 Entrepreneur Top Company Culture List University Program Awards: 2022 Handshake Early Talent Award 2022 Untapped Top Internship Programs 2022 OneReq Internship Program Trailblazer Award
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