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Duolingo is hiring a Staff Product Designer, Growth. The role involves leading the user experience design across the growth area of the Duolingo app, enhancing features like streaks and leaderboards, and working closely with designers, engineers, and product managers to refine the app's design language and expand its strategy and tactics. The position requires both strategic and tactical design input, serving as a creative partner for various aspects of Duolingo's product development.

Highlights

Lead user experience design for growth features such as streaks and leaderboards.
Work collaboratively with designers, engineers, and product managers.
Create both broad strategic directions and focused tactical features.
Required: online portfolio with relevant design samples.
Experience in design for consumer applications or software.
Desire for excellence in design execution and iterative feedback process.
Salary Range: $148,800 - $274,600 USD.
Benefits include equity compensation and world-class benefits.
Exceptional candidates may have startup experience and skills in illustration or animation.

Staff Product Designer, Growth Full Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!

Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.

Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role

This role reports to the Product Design Director of Growth as a member of the Design team, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo—from our mobile apps and website to the brand voice and email newsletters, and even community events. At Duolingo, we take pride in and agonize over crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone.

The Growth area makes it enjoyable for users to build a regular learning habit through features like the streak, leaderboards, friendship mechanics, achievements, notifications, animations and more. The work we do is a combination of strategic iterations mixed with thrilling big bets.

You will...

Work on the user experience across Growth within the Duolingo app
Play a leadership role on the Growth design team
Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
Work in a highly energetic fashion with the design and product teams
Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact

You have...

An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples
Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role
A desire to strive for excellence in your work until all details are attended to
The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions and seek feedback to help you produce your best work

Exceptional candidates will have...

Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
Illustration and/or animation skill-set
Experience participating in or leading user research sessions

Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.

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 your recruiter.

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.

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:

$148,800—$274,600 USD

Original Job Description

Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role

You will...

Work on the user experience across Growth within the Duolingo app
Play a leadership role on the Growth design team
Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
Work in a highly energetic fashion with the design and product teams
Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact

You have...

An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples
Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role
A desire to strive for excellence in your work until all details are attended to
The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions and seek feedback to help you produce your best work

Exceptional candidates will have...

Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
Illustration and/or animation skill-set
Experience participating in or leading user research sessions

Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.

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.

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

Salary Range:

$148,800—$274,600 USD

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