Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
You will...
- Work with a small group to complete a challenging, real-world project.
- Develop your technical skills through hands-on training, workshops, and guest lectures.
- Receive coaching and mentorship from a Duolingo Product Designer.
- Build lasting relationships with others who share a passion for making the best education universally available.
You have...
- Second-year undergraduate student currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related technical field graduating in May 2027 (or December 2026)
- Completion of at least two college-level design courses (please upload your official or unofficial transcript).
- Experience in designing screens with one of more the following software: Figma, Adobe XD, Origami, Sketch
- Available for a full-time 10-week internship from June to August starting on June 9, 2025
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Note: A portfolio is required to apply for this position.
- We’d like to see 1-2 projects that you drove independently. Strong visual design elevates you to the top, mobile app work is a plus.
- Please include a password if needed to enter your portfolio
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Existing examples of UI projects
- Experience working on a group/team project
- A Duolingo streak
Why you’ll love working here…
- Learn and collaborate with world-class designers
- Gain experience to fast-track your design career
- Build a network of experienced industry professionals
- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!
Note: A portfolio is required to apply for this position.
- We’d like to see 1-2 projects that you drove independently. Strong visual design elevates you to the top, mobile app work is a plus.
Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
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.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
We invest in and support our Duos!
Hourly Range for this internship is:
$40—$42 USD
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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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