Director, Strategy and Business Operations

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 have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test.

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!

Director, Strategy and Business Operations

Drive key strategic decisions via analysis, insight, and collaborative problem-solving.

As a Director of Strategy & Business Operations at Duolingo, you will play a key role in shaping Duolingo’s path towards becoming a sustainable and profitable company. Join us to play a leadership role in evaluating new markets, shaping strategy for new businesses and product lines, and driving the development of our overall corporate strategy. You will also have the opportunity to have lead operations projects with direct impact on company KPIs.

We are looking for motivated, curious, and kind people to join our team.

Responsibilities

You will play a leadership role both in shaping our team’s portfolio of strategy and operations projects, as well as leading cross-functional teams to deliver distinctive insight. Typical categories of work include:

• Market analysis: scoping the breadth and depth of market understanding required to make informed decisions about pursuing new opportunities, rapidly developing the appropriate fact base, and presenting it as actionable insight that drives excellent decision-making
• Strategy development: collaborating with cross-functional leaders to combine market understanding, customer insight, and product vision into strategies that drive growth
• Operational leadership: taking on operational leadership of projects as needed, whether building an ops function for a new business line, or managing complex cross-functional efforts to deliver a key business outcomes

Requirements

• Strong business acumen: ability to approach complex business problems in a structured way and drive rapidly towards insight
• Outstanding research, analysis, and writing skills
• Strong people leadership skills, including a demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence a diverse range of internal and external collaborators
• Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to lead teams in an environment with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action
• Skills commensurate with a bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field and 10+ years of professional experience

Exceptional candidates will have

• Experience in a leadership role in a strategy function or in strategy consulting
• Strong knowledge of the consumer tech industry (education experience also a plus)
• Experience leading cross functional teams in a high-growth environment

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.

We aim to return to office, and as such are requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.