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...
Duolingo Creative Producers are the hinge on which projects swing from idea to reality.
This role reports to a Senior Creative Producer or Studio Ops Manager as a member of the Design department: the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo. At Duolingo we take pride in, and agonize over, crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone—from those that go directly into our mobile app, to ones that shape our brand voice and identity.
You will join a team of Creative Producers who bring projects to life for illustrators, animators, and designers. You will be responsible for delivering excellent work efficiently and consistently: distilling creative & product challenges into plans, creating the space for teams to ideate and explore, organizing and shepherding teams through the stages of production, and keeping everyone informed and aligned along the way.
You will...
- Collaborate with creative teams (Creative Directors, Animators, Experiential Designers, Product Designers) to align on project scope & approach—resources, deliverables, timelines, etc.
- Work with cross-functional partners (Product Managers, Engineers, Marketing) to establish project requirements through briefs and project plans
- Drive day-to-day production: managing teams and/or vendors, leading kick-offs, running weekly syncs, tracking timelines and budgets, compiling feedback, striving for clarity, and comm’sing status updates to stakeholders
- Advocate for the work and for Design Studio’s creative perspective
- Remove roadblocks and drive progress
- Create efficiencies: implementing scalable & repeatable processes, improving team rhythm/collaboration/communication, recording and sharing learnings along the way
- Collaborate with fellow Creative Producers and product leaders to connect teams across large-scale, impactful initiatives
You have...
- Worked as a Producer at an agency or on an in-house creative team
- Experience working with designers & product teams on strategic metrics-based initiatives
- A track record of operating independently in a fast-paced environment
- A meticulous sense of organization, with a passion for operational excellence
- Effective communication skills
- The ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience in consumer tech
- A strong vendor/production network
- A strong sense for visual design, mobile UI convention and user empathy
- Hyper vigilant attention to detail
- A desire to synthesize ambiguity into action
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:
$102,000—$166,750 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 [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.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
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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