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About the role...
Have you overseen an office’s workplace support operations that deliver unique experiences and reflect strong values? Do you love to bring people together to achieve great things? Are you excited by ideas about how to innovate workplaces for the future? We’re looking for a Workplace Specialist who will lead the tactical operations of our office in Detroit.
🧠 You will...
- Lead all aspects of Detroit workplace - For our Detroit site spread across 2 floors, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations (food & beverage, badge access, janitorial, visits/tours, etc), delivering high-quality workplace experiences for employees and visitors that reflect Duolingo’s values. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Duos to ensure exceptional service and hospitality that exceed expectations for a collaborative, fast-growing tech company. You will support local workplace initiatives, customer events, and neighborhood engagement.
- Lead office initiatives and projects - You will help support tenant improvement and XFN projects in our spaces, such as construction, IT/AV. You will collaborate with workplace peers and Site Leads while leading local space strategy.
- Manage others - You will help select and process invoices for local third-party providers such as food services, security, and facilities. You will establish and maintain positive relationships with these providers to ensure their positive impact on Duolingo. You will proactively identify opportunities needed to enhance their workplace support.
- Support Detroit’s local teams - You will assist with office budgets, including operating expenses, capital expenditures, and workplace expenses. You will help manage conference budgets and provide Duos with travel guidance for all Detroit offsite-related needs. Finally, you will host engaging weekly meetings to cultivate culture and community with these local design artists by showcasing current studio projects.
✅ You have...
- 3+ years of dynamic experience supporting outstanding office environments with demonstrated success in employee experience
- Strength leading cross-functional teams - you extract great outcomes from people who like to work with you.
- Demonstrated experience identifying, partnering with, and leading various outsourced providers.
- Ability to uplift operational processes, including those that are new, nebulous, and constantly iterating.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interact with diverse audiences, from external providers to global employees, from senior leaders to day porter staff.
- Collaboration and resilience to drive iterative, cross-functional change in a high-growth environment.
- Foresight to strategize the future of our workplace footprint with design solutions to scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, architecture, real estate, or a related field.
- Ability to work full-time from or relocate to Detroit, MI, and work in our office five days per week.
- Ability to travel up to 5% of the time to other office locations
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience at a collaborative, growing tech company
- Workplace operational experience
- An eye for interior office design and tenant improvements
- Passion for language learning or education
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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Duolingo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Duolingo and has not been reviewed or approved by Duolingo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core engineering and product roles, with required jurisdictions showing posted ranges and immigration filings implying a strong base-salary floor. Public compensation snapshots indicate senior packages can scale higher, supporting a clear, market-aligned structure.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with mental-health resources and fertility support as core offerings. Coverage for dependents and strong wellness benefits are consistently highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — About 20 days of PTO plus a two‑week company winter break and paid holidays provide substantial time away. A formal sabbatical at 10 years further expands long‑term recharge options.
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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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