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
Are you a curious creative who has passion for developing well crafted video content that impacts culture and business? With your thoughtful editing and motion graphics craft mastery, you will help ensure we deliver world-class creative work, and help bring Duolingo to new learners around the world. This role is part of the global brand studio team and will work closely with our performance marketing team, brand marketing team, social content team, and external creative partners.
You will...
- Partner with creative, social, design and marketing teams to develop high quality product focused performance marketing creative videos and content.
- Develop & experiment with new creative content across social media, campaigns, partnership collateral and new things we haven’t developed yet including short and long form video.
- Collaborate with performance marketing team to experiment on learnings and iterate on best performing creative assets.
- Collaborate with illustrators, designers and animators to bring a cohesive brand experience to the world across marketing touchpoints.
- Conduct testing on your designs, capture insights, and seamlessly integrate these findings into iterative design improvements.
- Partner with other teams to scale brand moments and constantly strive for excellence.
You have...
- Proven track record as a motion design and video editor generalist with experience in either agency, brand or ideally both.
- Portfolio that includes well- crafted motion graphic videos scaling from storytelling and narrative content to product focused performance marketing.
- Curiosity about learners needs and business goals.
- A strong understanding of our product and how it works.
- Experience in A/B tests to gather data-driven insights that optimize designs and develop hypotheses to inform design decisions.
- Ability to balance craft, critical thinking, and business needs to deliver meaningful impact.
- Ability to work in high-level content strategy and hands-on design tasks with extreme attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, forward-thinking creative, proactivity and critical thinking skills.
- Proficiency in the Adobe Suite, After Effects, Figma and video editing is a requirement.
- Ability to lead your own projects with autonomy.
- Knowledge of performance metrics, experience working with teams in marketing analytics, and testing/optimization techniques.
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Produced Industry award winning crafted video work.
- Working proficiency in more than one language.
- Experience with character animation and working with illustration art.
- A passion for education, memes, culture, and language.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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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.
Salary Range:
$113,050—$184,000 USD
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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