Strategy & Operations Manager - Growth & Impact

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

Job summary

Duolingo in New York City is seeking a Manager, Strategy and Business Operations to shape the company’s path as a 100-year organization. The role blends strategy and execution with close collaboration across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more in a hybrid 4-days-in-office model.

You will lead data-driven analyses, set clear metrics, and partner with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance to turn insights into scalable actions that

Qualifications

• Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented mindset.
• Analytical chops and logical thinking.
• Strong people skills and collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
• 3+ years of professional experience.
• Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Analytical thinking

People skills

Experience (early career)

Outcome oriented

Job description

Duolingo in New York City is seeking a Manager, Strategy and Business Operations to shape the company’s path as a 100-year organization. The role blends strategy and execution with close collaboration across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more in a hybrid 4-days-in-office model.

You will lead data-driven analyses, set clear metrics, and partner with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance to turn insights into scalable actions that