Account Manager (Contract)

Duolingo; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Duolingo, Inc. is seeking an Account Manager contractor for a 3–6 month engagement (10–20 hours/week) to support Duolingo Ads. You’ll manage day‑to‑day campaigns from kickoff through close and deliver RFP responses and media plans.

This role reports to the Account Management Lead and offers a chance to contribute to an early‑stage, fast‑growing ads business serving hundreds of millions of learners. You’ll collaborate across ad ops, sales, and product teams, delivering optimization

Qualifications

• 4+ years in account management or similar
• Client-facing background at tech, publisher, or agency
• Experience leading cross-team projects from kickoff to execution
• Strong project management with high-volume campaigns
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
• Experience building media plans including video/native formats
• Understanding of ad tech and mobile app ecosystems
• Knowledge of Duolingo product and freemium model
• Experience monitoring performance and telling insights with data

Responsibilities

• Serve as day-to-day contact for assigned campaigns from kickoff to close
• Deliver program timelines and kickoff materials for campaigns
• Coordinate with internal ads teams to launch campaigns on schedule
• Partner with Ad Ops to QA and launch campaigns and provide performance updates
• Enter and maintain insertion orders and media plans in sales systems
• Deliver RFP responses and media plans for opportunities
• Provide in-campaign optimization and incremental-spend recommendations
• Deliver a post-campaign recap covering results and insights

Skills

Account Management

Client-facing

Cross-team Collaboration

Project Management

Communication

Ad Tech

Data storytelling

Google Workspace

PowerPoint

Excel

Slack

Boostr

Tools

Google Workspace

PowerPoint

Excel

Slack

Boostr

Job 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 that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

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

Read our blog to learn more.

About the role...

Join us to build Duolingo Ads, Duolingo’s direct ad business.

Duolingo is used by over 150 million users every month to learn a language, music, math, or chess. The vast majority of our learners engage with the free, ad‑supported version of our app, which is core to our mission of delivering a learning experience that is accessible to all.

As our reach continues to grow, we want to elevate Duolingo’s free experience by introducing higher-quality ad formats that delight learners and offer strong monetization potential for Duolingo.

We are seeking an Account Manager contractor for a 3 to 6 month (10‑20 hours per week) engagement with Duolingo Ads. You’ll support assigned advertising campaigns from kickoff through close, and deliver RFP responses and media plans for assigned sales opportunities.

This engagement reports to our Account Management Lead. It’s a chance to contribute to an early-stage, fast-growing ads business that reaches hundreds of millions of learners.

Scope of work

• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for assigned campaigns, from kickoff through close
• Deliver a program timeline and kickoff materials for each assigned campaign
• Coordinate with internal ads teams to launch each assigned campaign on schedule
• Partner with Ad Ops to QA and launch assigned campaigns, and deliver client pacing and performance updates while they’re live
• Enter and maintain insertion orders and media plans for assigned campaigns in internal sales systems
• Deliver RFP responses and media plans, including video and native/custom ad formats, for assigned sales opportunities
• Deliver in-campaign optimization and incremental-spend recommendations for each assigned campaign
• Deliver a recap for each assigned campaign at close, covering results, learnings and insights

You have...

• 4+ years of experience in account management
• Client-facing background at a tech company, publisher, or agency managing a brand partnerships, creative development or buying
• Track record of cross-team collaboration, partnering with stakeholders to lead projects from kick-off through execution
• Strong project management capabilities, managing high volumes of campaigns with accuracy
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Ability to operate at a high level with a lot of ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• Built media plans across spend levels, inclusive of video and native/custom ad formats.
• Strong understanding of ad tech and mobile app ecosystems
• Understanding of the Duolingo product and the freemium business model
• Experience monitoring and reporting on performance, using data to tell impactful stories
• Proficiency in Google Product Suite, Powerpoint, Excel, Slack and OMS tools (i.e. Boostr)

About Duolingo

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 also offer English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new subjects into the Duolingo app, where people can develop their Math and Music skills.

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!

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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