Staff Product Designer

Duolingo; City Of London; On-site; GBP 151,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative educational technology company in the UK seeks a product designer to lead user experience efforts for the Duolingo app. The ideal candidate will have an online portfolio, experience in consumer software design, and displayed proficiency in tools such as InVision and Figma. This full-time position offers a competitive salary range of $200,000 to $360,000 USD.

Qualifications

• An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples.
• Design experience in a consumer application product or software role.
• Desire for excellence until all details are attended to.
• Ability to explain work process and seek feedback.
• Experience with AI tools like ChatGPT and Cursor.

Responsibilities

• Work on user experience for Duolingo language app features.
• Play a leadership role on the product design team.
• Collaborate with designers and artists to expand Duolingo's design language.
• Define long-term strategy and short-term tactics with product managers.
• Craft experience considering copy, animation, and business impact.

Skills

InVision

Interaction Design

UX

Usability

Visual Design

Design Thinking

Zeplin

User Research

UI

iOS

Figma

Sketch

Job description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and even though weve made a lot of headway we still have work to do and thats where you come in!

Duolingos 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 youll 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 is a key part of the Design teamDuolingos key creative partner across nearly every project. From our mobile apps and website to our brand voice email newsletters and community events the Design team helps shape the full user experience. At Duolingo we take pride in crafting experiences that are both user-friendly and funand we sweat the details to get them just right.

You will...

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

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

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

Exceptional candidates will have...

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

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 : $200000 $360000 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 .

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.

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Required Experience

Staff IC

Key Skills

InVision, Interaction Design, Ux, Usability, Visual Design, Design Thinking, Zeplin, User Research, UI, IOS, Figma, Sketch

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1