Workplace
On-site
Employment
Contract
Published
Aug 11, 2026
Closes
No date supplied
The role
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role...
We’re hiring a Staff Program Manager to lead complex, multi-quarter programs that cut across teams and functions at Duolingo. You’ll operate with significant autonomy to turn strategy into clear, scalable execution, align senior stakeholders, and build the systems that help teams ship impactful work on time. You will design plans, manage dependencies, surface and resolve risks early, and continuously improve our processes so we can move fast without sacrificing quality. This role is ideal for a program leader who brings crisp structure to ambiguity and elevates how cross-functional work gets done at scale. This position will be based in New York City, with 10–15% travel for shoots, partner meetings, and company events. You will also manage and develop a bench of freelance program managers who can help scale your impact.
🧠 You will...
• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of multiple complex, cross-functional programs from inception through launch, reporting and retro. You’ll help define scope, milestones, owners, success metrics, a
Requirements
Department: Marketing and Communications