VP of Learning Design - Lead AI-Driven Learning at Scale

Pittsburgh Tomorrow; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 330,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo seeks a VP of Learning Design to lead a 40+ person LX organization, shaping how learning experiences are designed, evaluated, and scaled for hundreds of millions of learners. You will partner with Product, Design, Engineering and Data to strengthen capabilities and deliver impact across language, math, music, and chess.

You will build leadership depth, guide talent, and drive results in a fast-moving, product-led environment while leveraging AI to accelerate learning innovations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a multidisciplinary organization through directors and other senior leaders in a fast-moving, product-led environment.
• A passion for people leadership, with a track record of developing strong leaders, empowering teams to take ownership, and delivering results through others.
• Meaningful grounding in learning design, learning science, or a related discipline, with the judgment to coach experts and connect learning principles to product decisions.
• Experience shaping consumer products through the teams you lead, including using AI to accelerate product development or content generation.
• Excellent executive communication and judgment, with the ability to make difficult tradeoffs, influence senior leaders across functions, and lead through ambiguity and change.
• Ability to work from or relocate to New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid (4+1) schedule.

Responsibilities

• Help LX learn design leaders to build a strong organization and capabilities, allocating resources to high-impact work.
• Lead organizational design, hiring, leadership development, performance management, succession planning, and team health.
• Ensure LX delivers on commitments and resolves obstacles in partnership with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data.
• Strengthen product capabilities across LX and coach teams to write clear specs and roadmaps, and use AI to ship experiments.
• Represent LX in cross-functional forums and influence product decisions across teams.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Executive communication

AI in product

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Learning design

Learning science

Related discipline

Job description

Duolingo seeks a VP of Learning Design to lead a 40+ person LX organization, shaping how learning experiences are designed, evaluated, and scaled for hundreds of millions of learners. You will partner with Product, Design, Engineering and Data to strengthen capabilities and deliver impact across language, math, music, and chess.

You will build leadership depth, guide talent, and drive results in a fast-moving, product-led environment while leveraging AI to accelerate learning innovations.