Manager, Strategy and Business Operations

Duolingo; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Manager of Strategy and Business Operations to shape the company’s path and unlock faster progress on top priorities. You will partner with leaders across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more in a hybrid Pittsburgh-based role.

Responsibilities include developing actionable strategies, assessing opportunities, and leading cross-functional initiatives with product, engineering, design, and finance. The role emphasizes data-driven, rigorous decision making.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategy, operations, or consulting.
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects and teams.
• Comfort with data-driven decision making and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop actionable strategies with cross-functional leaders.
• Sprint to assess opportunities and markets across the business.
• Lead with data, structure, and judgment in decision making.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science and finance.
• Learn and grow by delivering world-class strategy work with colleagues.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional

Data-driven decisions

Analytical skills

Communication

Job description

Manager, Strategy and Business Operations

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.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will balance speed and rigor to resolve ambiguity and turn one-off wins into scalable systems.

As a Strategy & Business Operations Manager at Duolingo, you will play a key role in shaping Duolingo’s path towards becoming a 100-year company. You will partner closely with leaders across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more to create clarity and alignment that unlocks faster progress for Duolingo’s top priorities.

This role is based in our Pittsburgh HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week.

You will...

• Develop actionable strategies: collaborate with cross-functional leaders to combine market understanding, user insights, and product vision into strategies that teams will pursue to achieve Duolingo's mission
• Sprint to assess opportunities & markets: identify and assess compelling opportunities for Duolingo. This spans problem-space definition, hypothesis generation, industry research, execution and iteration
• Lead with data, structure, and judgment: establish success metrics, build clear frameworks, and make trade-offs across competing priorities
• Partner cross-functionally: work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance
• Learn and grow: rapidly gain new skills, methods, and industry learnings as you deliver world-class strategy work alongside talented colleagues across disciplines

You have...

• Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to thrive with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action
• Analytical chops and logical thinking: develops data and fact-based understanding of complex problems. Able to simplify findings to clear conclusions
• Strong people skills, including a demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
• Relevant experience: 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in strategy, business operations, consulting, product, or a related field
• Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Strong knowledge of and passion for the consumer tech industry
• Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services
• Experience working with global / international teams
• Experience leading cross-functional projects in a high-growth environment

Benefits: Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here .

Accommodations: 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 [e-mail] .

Equal Employment Opportunity: 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 .

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

Salary Range:

$129,200 — $174,800 USD

AI in Hiring: Duolingo uses AI technology to assist in our hiring process. We want to be transparent about how we use this technology and your rights. We use Greenhouse Software's Talent Matching feature to assist with reviewing applications for the skills and experience we have decided are important for this role.

How it works:

• Talent Matching reviews your resume and responses to application questions to determine the extent to which your qualifications match the job requirements selected for this role. These requirements and their desired weighting are established by our recruiters in collaboration with hiring managers.
• All Talent Matching output is reviewed by our recruiting and hiring teams, who make the final decision on each application. Talent Matching does not automatically disposition any candidate or make hiring decisions.

Voluntary Self Identification

To fulfill our mission of developing the best education in the world and making it universally available, we seek exceptional talent for every role. We recruit candidates from diverse backgrounds. To help us evaluate our hiring process for equitability, we invite U.S. applicants to share their demographic information. Participation in this survey is voluntary and confidential. Participation will not affect any hiring decisions or outcomes.