Staff Product Designer, Monetization & Growth

Duolingo; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo seeks a Staff Designer reporting to the Director of Product Design on Monetization. You’ll shape how users experience value across free and paid experiences in the language app, collaborating with engineers, PMs, and designers to influence the roadmap and contribute to delightful purchase flows.

This role blends creative leadership with hands-on design, emphasizing experimentation, craft, and a bias for excellence in a fast-moving consumer product used by hundreds of millions worldwide.

Qualifications

• Online portfolio with consumer mobile app or web design samples.
• Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role.
• Ability to explain your work, process, and decisions and seek feedback to help you produce your best work.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Portfolio

Design experience

Communication

Job description

Duolingo seeks a Staff Designer reporting to the Director of Product Design on Monetization. You’ll shape how users experience value across free and paid experiences in the language app, collaborating with engineers, PMs, and designers to influence the roadmap and contribute to delightful purchase flows.

This role blends creative leadership with hands-on design, emphasizing experimentation, craft, and a bias for excellence in a fast-moving consumer product used by hundreds of millions worldwide.