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...
We’re looking for a Recruiter II to hire exceptional talent for Duolingo’s Business, Marketing, and Creative teams. You’ll run full‑cycle searches, partnering closely with hiring managers to define profiles, build strong pipelines, and deliver a white‑glove candidate experience. You’ll balance speed and quality, use data to inform decisions, and help maintain Duolingo’s high talent bar.
🧠 You will...
- Own full‑cycle recruiting for roles in our Design, Marketing, and Business functions (intake, sourcing, assessments, offers), driving efficient, high‑quality hiring outcomes.
- Partner with hiring managers to align on role requirements, interview plans, and timelines; help set clear expectations and keep searches on track.
- Support intake meetings and recruiting syncs by sharing updates, surfacing insights, and recommending next steps.
- Review candidate portfolios and help assess design quality and craft in alignment with Duolingo’s aesthetic and standards.
- Execute strong recruiting operations: manage timelines, track progress, and proactively communicate status updates and risks.
- Deliver an excellent candidate experience with timely communication, structured assessments, and clear feedback loops from first touch to close.
- Use data to inform your work: monitor funnel health, identify trends, and suggest improvements to your searches.
- Use a mix of internal and third-party tools, including AI.
✅ You have...
- 3+ years of full‑cycle recruiting experience, including sourcing and closing for creative, business, and/or marketing roles.
- Experience hiring for moderately complex roles (e.g., industry hires, early-career or internship roles, or program management roles).
- Portfolio review experience, with the ability to recognize creative excellence.
- Ability to manage multiple searches at once while maintaining strong organization and candidate experience.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; you build trust and keep hiring partners aligned.
- Experience using recruiting data (e.g., pipeline metrics, conversion rates) to inform your approach.
- Experience ideating, building, and experimenting with AI tools, like ChatGPT.
- Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to support recruiting workflows.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience recruiting across multiple creative disciplines.
- Deep knowledge of the creative and marketing hiring landscape, including current trends and platforms.
- Experience recruiting in tech, startups, or high-growth companies.
- Experience with tools like Gem, Brighthire, Guide, and Greenhouse.
- A deep alignment with Duolingo’s mission.
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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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 [email protected].
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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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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