Director of Learning Design, Language Learning

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!

At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about educating our users experimenting with big ideas making fact-based decisions and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Youll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds while doing work thats 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

As Director of Learning Design for Language Learning you will set the pedagogical vision and execution strategy for Duolingos language-learning experiences driving learning impact curriculum quality and innovation at global scale. Youll lead a team of multi-disciplinary learning designers and partner with product leadership to ship delightful effective learning in the Duolingo style. This job is based in Pittsburgh.

You will...

• Ship effective learning at scale : partner with Product Design and Engineering to translate pedagogy into fun and motivating inapp experiences that build listening speaking reading and writing skills
• Lead and develop a worldclass team of learning designers leveling up their craft velocity and effectiveness
• Drive an experimentled practice : help design outcomefocused A / B tests align on success metrics (e.g. CEFR-aligned progress retention speaking / writing gains) and assist with analyzing learning and engagement impact
• Establish content quality systems (guidelines rubrics review workflows) that ensure linguistic accuracy difficulty calibration and a high-quality bar across language courses
• Lead through example by using AI to improve your craft and encouraging your team to do the same
• Explore the future of language teaching : develop and validate roadmaps for new skills modes and curricula that extend Duolingos impact

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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 : $189600 $284400 USD

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Key Skills

Aerospace Engineering,Data Entry,Business Management,Flexcube,Contract

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1