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 roleWe’re looking for a Senior Community Manager who is equal parts strategist, builder, and hands-on operator. This is a unique opportunity to shape how millions of learners engage with Duolingo, not just today, but for years to come.
You will work hand-in-hand with the Head of Community to craft and build the community function from scratch. You’ll bring creative ideas, help define structure and best practices, and co-create a vision for what a high-impact, high-delight global community looks like at Duolingo.
At the same time, you will own and lead the day-to-day engagement across our community channels. You’ll be the front line of how we show up with learners, moderators, superfans, and ambassadors — cultivating joy, trust, safety, and belonging through every interaction.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Communications, and Customer Support to bring the community’s voice into the heart of the organization.
:brain: You will...
Own and lead day-to-day community operations
- Manage our core community channels (e.g., Reddit, Discord) and drive daily engagement, conversation quality, and member experience
- Build and maintain strong relationships with moderators, ambassadors, and superfans
- Develop scalable processes, playbooks, and frameworks that uphold safety, trust, delight, and Duolingo’s signature tone
- Monitor community health, sentiment, and emerging risks, identifying insights and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Launch initiatives that grow participation, sentiment, and long-term community value
Own and lead day-to-day community operations
- Manage our core community channels (e.g., Reddit, Discord) and drive daily engagement, conversation quality, and member experience
- Build and maintain strong relationships with moderators, ambassadors, and superfans
- Develop scalable processes, playbooks, and frameworks that uphold safety, trust, delight, and Duolingo’s signature tone
- Monitor community health, sentiment, and emerging risks, identifying insights and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Launch initiatives that grow participation, sentiment, and long-term community value
:check: You have...
- 8+ years of experience in community management for a consumer-facing brand, ideally at scale.
- Proven experience growing and engaging online communities across multiple platforms (Reddit, Slack, Discord, etc.).
- Strong instincts for tone, voice, and the dynamics of internet culture.
- Experience managing moderators, ambassadors, creators, or similar stakeholder groups.
- A data-driven approach to decision-making, with comfort in interpreting qualitative and quantitative signals.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
- Experience navigating complex community conversations and stewarding online reputation.
- Active Duolingo user.
:star: Exceptional candidates will have...
- Track record of building community programs of 1M+ members.
- Experience with shifting sentiment, scaling, and building advocates through community programs and tactics.
- Experience with international community management or scaling programs across cultures.
- Excels at both strategic planning and hands-on execution.
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].
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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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