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Duolingo is hiring a Senior Creative Technologist. The role involves enhancing the use of art and animation to create more engaging and interactive products. The Senior Creative Technologist will collaborate closely with teams in Product, Design, Animation, and Engineering to craft high-quality, user-friendly experiences.

Highlights

Build interactive, animated UI using Rive or other scalable technologies.
Create prototypes using design tools such as Rive and Play.
Enhance design and animation tool ecosystems like LLMs, Figma, Maya, and Godot.
Minimum 5 years of experience in creative technology roles or similar.
Salary Range: $174,250 - $294,000 USD.
Portfolio and demo reel showcasing relevant experience required.
Experience with interactive animations for mobile content is advantageous.
Potential for relocation to New York City or Pittsburgh, PA.

Senior Creative Technologist Full Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that’s where you come in!

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we also offer English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new subjects into the Duolingo app, where people can develop their Math and Music skills.

We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

About the role

You’ll elevate the way we use art and animation to make our products more engaging, immersive, and interactive.

This role reports into the Sr. Manager of Creative Technology and partners closely with our Product, Design, Animation, and Engineering teams. At Duolingo, we take pride in our craft and agonize over high-quality design with a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone.

You will...

Build interactive, animated UI using Rive or other technologies that are repeatable and scalable.
Build prototypes: both with design tools like Rive and Play, as well as with basic engineering by building playground or demo apps.
Solve problems. Creative Technologists are the people both designers and engineers go to when they have a bold creative idea that they’re not sure how to get into the app.
Advance our design and animation tool ecosystem (LLMs, Rive, Figma, Maya, Godot) through strategic upgrades, automation solutions, and best practice guidance, while also identifying, evaluating, and promoting new technologies to enhance animation, automation, and interactivity.

You have...

A minimum of 5 years experience in a role similar to creative technology (technical or procedural animation, scripting gameplay, state machines, etc.)
A portfolio and/or demo reel that demonstrates your experience in:
Proven track record of driving projects forward that solve a clear problem, especially by succinctly communicating trade-offs, ideas, and recommendations to managers, engineers, and artists
The ability to relocate to New York City or Pittsburgh, PA

Exceptional candidates will have...

Experience with interactive animation for mobile content
Experience working at a small game studio, VFX house, or tech start-up
Experience with Rive
General 3D Skills like modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating
An understanding of game design principles and player experience.

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:

$174,250—$294,000 USD

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 accommodations@duolingo.com.

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.

Original Job Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that’s where you come in!

About the role

You’ll elevate the way we use art and animation to make our products more engaging, immersive, and interactive.

You will...

Build interactive, animated UI using Rive or other technologies that are repeatable and scalable.
Build prototypes: both with design tools like Rive and Play, as well as with basic engineering by building playground or demo apps.
Solve problems. Creative Technologists are the people both designers and engineers go to when they have a bold creative idea that they’re not sure how to get into the app.
Advance our design and animation tool ecosystem (LLMs, Rive, Figma, Maya, Godot) through strategic upgrades, automation solutions, and best practice guidance, while also identifying, evaluating, and promoting new technologies to enhance animation, automation, and interactivity.

You have...

A minimum of 5 years experience in a role similar to creative technology (technical or procedural animation, scripting gameplay, state machines, etc.)
A portfolio and/or demo reel that demonstrates your experience in:
Proven track record of driving projects forward that solve a clear problem, especially by succinctly communicating trade-offs, ideas, and recommendations to managers, engineers, and artists
The ability to relocate to New York City or Pittsburgh, PA

Exceptional candidates will have...

Experience with interactive animation for mobile content
Experience working at a small game studio, VFX house, or tech start-up
Experience with Rive
General 3D Skills like modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating
An understanding of game design principles and player experience.

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

Salary Range:

$174,250—$294,000 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

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