Staff Product Designer, Monetization

Drive Capital; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Competitive salary

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Staff Designer focused on Monetization to shape the user experience across free and paid surfaces within the language app. You will partner with engineers and PMs to drive long-term strategy and immediate tactics, while collaborating with design and art teams to evolve the design language.

The role emphasizes excellence, strong storytelling of your work, and contributing to an iterative, data-informed design culture. Salary includes equity compensation.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of consumer mobile app or web design samples.
• Experience in a consumer application, product, or software role.
• Desire to strive for excellence and attention to detail.
• Ability to explain work, process, and decisions and seek feedback.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve both the free and paid user experiences across Monetization surfaces within the Duolingo language app.
• Lead on Monetization design team to shape roadmap and development.
• Partner with engineers and product managers on long- and short-term strategy.
• Collaborate with designers and artists to extend the Duolingo design language.
• Tackle both broad concepts and narrowly defined, tactical features.
• Consider copy, animation, and business impact in experiences.

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 even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!

Duolingo’s 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, you’ll 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 this role

This role reports to the Director of Product Design on Monetization. Monetization is the revenue engine that powers our company. Our teams focus on unlocking value for users through subscriptions, ads and in-app purchases. As a Staff Designer, you’ll play a key role in defining how users experience that value, from their first touchpoint to being long-term loyal users.

As a member of the Duolingo Design team, this role is an instrumental creative partner in key monetization vectors at Duolingo—from our delightful purchase flow to our seasonal avatar events. At Duolingo, we take pride in and agonize over crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone.

Will you join us on our mission?

You will...

• Define and evolve both the free and paid user experiences across Monetization surfaces within the Duolingo language app
• Play a leadership role on the Monetization design team in shaping our product roadmap and product development
• Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
• Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
• Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
• Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact

You have...

• An online portfolio with consumer 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

Outstanding candidates will have...

• Experience designing for fast-paced Monetization, Growth or subscription-based products
• Experience with strong experimentation culture and iterative improvements
• An interest in developing design talent and improving design craft

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.

Salary Range: $200,000 — $300,000 USD

Benefits:

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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.

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