Senior Creative, Social

Duolingo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

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Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a social-native creative to transform trends into breakthrough ideas across social channels, OOH, partnerships and experiential activations. You’ll be part content creator, copywriter and art director, fluent in internet culture, delivering fast, sharp feedback and bold ideas.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on creation, collaborating with teams across social, brand, design, production, PR and partnerships.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience creating culturally relevant work for social platforms.
• Portfolio demonstrates social-native thinking, strong concepts and creative craft.
• Fluency in internet culture and ability to spot emerging opportunities.
• Clear point of view on what great social creative looks like now and next.
• Strong copywriting, art direction, and visual storytelling.
• Expertise in short-form video: concepting, directing and producing.
• Experience turning cultural insights into ideas beyond posts (experiential, OOH, partnerships).
• Ability to give direct, useful creative feedback to other creators.
• Operates at both strategic and hands-on levels; collaborative mindset.
• Willing to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• Turn social moments into ideas that go beyond the feed, including stunts, billboards, products and partnerships.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to creators, ensuring work is ownable and culturally relevant.
• Develop and ship ambitious creative on internet timelines with fast-paced execution.
• Identify trends, memes, fandoms, and cultural moments for meaningful Duolingo roles.
• Create original social-native content when the strongest idea is a post, video or meme.
• Evolve Duolingo’s voice, visual language, characters and humor across platforms.
• Collaborate with social, brand marketing, design, production, PR, partnerships and legal.
• Present ideas clearly, from Slack pitches to comprehensive creative decks.
• Raise the creative standard and spot opportunities with business impact and awards.

Skills

Portfolio demonstration

Social-native thinking

Copywriting

Art direction

Short-form video

Trend identification

Feedback skills

Strategic & hands-on

Collaboration

Relocation flexibility

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...

Duolingo’s social channels have become a cultural phenomenon. Now we’re looking for a social-native creative who can take our speed-of-culture thinking beyond the feed and into the real world.

You’ll join Duolingo’s Brand Marketing Studio and work closely with our social team to transform trends, memes and cultural moments into breakthrough ideas across social, experiential, OOH, partnerships, events, and unexpected corners of culture.

You’re part content creator, part copywriter, part art director, and deeply fluent in the internet. You can make something yourself when speed matters, develop a bigger idea when the opportunity deserves it and give sharp feedback that makes other creators’ work more ownable, timely and unmistakably Duolingo.

You will...

• Turn social moments into ideas that move beyond the feed, including stunts, billboards, products, mascot appearances, partnerships, pop-ups and more
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to social content creators, helping make their work more ownable, culturally relevant and true to Duolingo
• Develop and ship ambitious creative on internet timelines, often moving from opportunity to execution within one or two weeks
• Identify validated trends, memes, fandoms and cultural moments where Duolingo can play a meaningful and unexpected role
• Create original social-native content yourself when the strongest idea is still a great post, video or meme
• Help steward and evolve Duolingo’s distinctive voice, visual language, characters and sense of humor across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and emerging platforms
• Work closely with social, brand marketing, design, production, PR, partnerships and legal to determine what we can make and how quickly we can make it
• Present ideas clearly and persuasively, from a fast Slack pitch to a fully developed creative deck
• Raise the creative standard of our daily social work while spotting opportunities with business impact and award-winning potential

You have...

The most important thing you’ll bring to this interview is your portfolio. We want to see work that made people stop scrolling and ideas too big to stay in the feed.

Beyond that, you have:

• 7+ years of experience creating culturally relevant work for social platforms, brands, agencies, media companies or your own audience
• A portfolio that demonstrates social-native thinking, strong concepts and excellent creative craft
• Deep fluency in internet culture and an instinct for distinguishing an emerging opportunity from a dying trend
• A clear point of view on what great social creative looks like now and where it’s going next
• Strong copywriting skills and a sharp eye for art direction, design and visual storytelling
• Expertise in short-form video, including concepting, directing and getting the work made
• Experience turning cultural insights into ideas beyond social posts, such as experiential activations, earned-media stunts, OOH, products or partnerships
• Experience giving direct, useful creative feedback that helps other creators improve their ideas and execution
• The ability to operate at both the strategic and hands-on level; you’re not too senior to make things
• Strong taste, low ego, and the ability to make the work better through collaboration
• The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Experience working across both in-house and agency or studio environments
• A genuine obsession with Duolingo’s mission, product and characters

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: $142,800 — $193,200 USD

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