Manager, Strategy and Business Operations
About The Position
This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will balance speed and rigor to resolve ambiguity and turn one-off wins into scalable systems. As a Strategy & Business Operations Manager at Duolingo, you will play a key role in shaping Duolingo’s path towards becoming a 100-year company. You will partner closely with leaders across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more to create clarity and alignment that unlocks faster progress for Duolingo’s top priorities. This role is based in our Pittsburgh HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week.
Requirements
- Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to thrive with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action
- Analytical chops and logical thinking: develops data and fact-based understanding of complex problems. Able to simplify findings to clear conclusions
- Strong people skills, including a demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
- Early career: 3+ years of professional experience
- Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a strategy or biz ops function, strategy consulting, product management or strategic corporate development
- Strong knowledge of and passion for the consumer tech industry
- Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services
- Experience working with global / international teams
- Experience leading cross-functional projects in a high-growth environment
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
