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
Make the world’s most popular language-learning app famous in Poland.
We are seeking an experienced, creative marketer to help us build awareness and accelerate our growth across Poland. As our resident expert on the market, you will use your skills including social media, influencer marketing, PR, and advertising to drive awareness, build a loved brand, and bring new users to Duolingo.
Reporting to the Regional Marketing Director, you will partner closely with Global Marketing and Product teams in Pittsburgh, New York, and Country Marketing Managers around the world to find opportunities and come up with new, creative tactics and campaigns relevant to the Polish consumer.
We want a creative leader with deep consumer understanding and proven experience in devising campaigns that drive buzz, growth, and earned media with expertise in Social, creative marketing, and PR. As a member of a geographically distributed organization, the ideal candidate will not only be an outstanding, self-motivated creative talent but also a proactive and team-oriented communicator.
You will...
- Leverage market insights to develop a marketing strategy to grow Duolingo's awareness, brand love and expand the number of users in Poland
- Hire and lead agencies or contractors required to deliver the marketing plan
- Implement the plan with a focus on social media, partnerships, brand, acquisition campaigns, and PR.
- Act as a local spokesperson sourcing and managing speaking opportunities in Poland for yourself and relevant executives
- Analyze the results of the local marketing efforts and adjust the plan
- Partner with Marketing and Product teams to develop localized product messaging and positioning for feature and product launches
You have...
- Experience in conceiving, developing, and leading all aspects of Marketing and PR communication ideas throughout their full cycle
- Culturally clued up and immersed in trends in particular with Social Media. You understand what Polish consumers care about now and craft ideas that will capture attention.
- Track record of achieving great results with ideas rather than large budgets
- Storyteller, with writing skills and the creativity to build compelling customer-centric narratives
Requirements
- 5+ years of consumer marketing experience with a strong focus on social media and growth marketing
- Experience working as part of a remote team, building strong HQ relationships, and influencing effectively for local market needs
- Proficient in Polish with excellent English speaking and writing skills
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Passion for our mission to make high-quality language learning accessible to everyone
- Experience with mobile apps and subscription services
- Experience successfully scaling international brands in Poland
- Proficient in a 3rd language
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What We Do
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
Why Work With Us
Our global team works together to make language learning fun, free, and effective for anyone who wants to learn, wherever they are. Best of all, you get to work alongside Duo (literally)!