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Duolingo · 15 hours ago

Staff Product Designer

Duolingo is on a mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. As a Staff Product Designer, you will play a leadership role in the Design team, crafting user-friendly and engaging experiences across the Duolingo language app and other platforms.

E-LearningEducationLanguage LearningMobile Apps
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app
Play a leadership role on the product 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 enthusiastic fashion with the design and product teams
Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact
Use a mix of internal and third-party AI tools at every step of your creative process

Qualification

Mobile app designWeb designAI tools proficiencyUser researchIllustration skillsAnimation skillsFeedback seekingLeadershipCollaboration

Required

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
Experience ideating, building and prototyping with AI tools, like ChatGPT and Cursor

Preferred

Experience with managing early-career designers and an interest in developing design talent
Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
Illustration and/or animation skill-set
Experience participating in or leading user research sessions
Shipped AI-driven products

Benefits

Equity compensation
World-class benefits

Company

Duolingo

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Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.

H1B Sponsorship

Duolingo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (37)
2024 (46)
2023 (36)
2022 (19)
2021 (14)
2020 (17)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$183.3M
Key Investors
General AtlanticCapitalGDrive Capital
2021-07-28IPO
2020-11-18Series H· $35M
2020-04-14Series G· $10M

Leadership Team

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Luis von Ahn
CEO, co-Founder & Board Member
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Severin Hacker
CTO & Cofounder
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