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!
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About the role...
We’re looking for a Director, Communications to lead how Duolingo shows up at our most important moments—when we launch products, share results, and explain how we’re growing. This role is responsible for turning what we’re building and how it’s performing into clear, compelling stories.
You’ll own the narratives around our biggest product bets and ensure they show up consistently across launches, earnings, and executive communications. You’ll work closely with Product, Data, and Finance to translate progress into proof—connecting what we ship to real outcomes for learners and the business.
This is a role for someone who thinks like an operator, not just a storyteller: you understand how product decisions drive growth, and how to turn that into narratives that build trust, drive adoption, and stand up to scrutiny.
🧠 You will...
- Own how we communicate product progress and company performance—connecting what we ship to how we grow (DAUs, engagement, revenue).
- Lead comms for earnings and major company moments: shape the narrative, partner with IR and Finance, and ensure consistency across press, exec messaging, and owned channels.
- Drive product communications end-to-end: from shaping the story to landing the launch to sustaining momentum after.
- Turn complex product areas (AI, efficacy, monetization) into simple, credible narratives with clear proof points.
- Partner deeply with Product and Data to identify what’s actually interesting, differentiated, and worth talking about—and what’s not.
- Build repeatable systems for how we show up across launches and earnings (messaging frameworks, proof points, story arcs).
- Prepare executives to speak clearly and consistently about product and business performance in high-stakes moments.
- Anticipate and manage issues tied to product changes, AI, efficacy, and monetization—balancing transparency with clarity.
- Define what “good” looks like and measure it—focusing on message pull-through, narrative clarity, and impact on trust and growth.
- Manage agencies and partners to execute at a high bar.
✅ You have...
- 10+ years in communications, with strong experience in product comms and/or corporate/financial comms at a high-growth tech company.
- A track record of turning product work into clear, differentiated stories that get picked up—and understood.
- Experience supporting earnings or working closely with Finance/IR to shape external narratives.
- Strong instincts for what matters: you can quickly identify the signal in a roadmap, dataset, or result—and build a story around it.
- Excellent writing and editing skills; you can make complex ideas simple without losing credibility.
- Experience preparing executives for high-stakes moments (earnings, launches, major interviews).
- Comfort working cross-functionally with Product, Data, Marketing, and Finance.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment and build structure where it doesn’t exist.
- Experience managing agencies and holding a high-quality bar.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience in a product-led, experimentation-heavy company.
- Strong intuition for product storytelling, especially around AI or technical systems.
- Direct experience leading or owning earnings communications.
- Experience connecting product metrics to business narratives in a credible way.
- Background in education, edtech, or consumer subscription products.
- Strong relationships with business, tech, and financial media.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
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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)!
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