Senior Product Designer, Internal Tools

Job Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that's where you come in!

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test .

We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

Design the tools that make Duolingo look and work so well.

You’ll help build the tools that define a cohesive user experience throughout products like Duolingo, the Duolingo English Test, and the Duolingo ABC app, among others. From our powerful analytics dashboard to our own proprietary localization and curriculum tools, you’ll have the autonomy to work on high-impact projects that are redefining the future of education.

This role reports to the Design Manager in Learning as a member of the Design team, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo—from our mobile apps and website to the brand voice and email newsletters, and even community events. At Duolingo, we take pride in and agonize over crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone.

Will you join us on our mission?

You will...

• Work on the user experience of multiple Duolingo tools, primarily on web
• Work collaboratively with other designers to develop and expand our design language and patterns
• Help engineers and product managers define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our tools
• Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
• Work in a highly collaborative fashion with the Design and Product teams
• Consider all parts when crafting the experience—from copy to interaction design to information architecture

You have...

• An online portfolio with web or app design samples
• Design experience working on business tools or web apps
• A desire to keep pushing your work until all details are attended to
• The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions and seek feedback to help you produce your best work
• Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA

Outstanding candidates will have...

• Proven experience working at a high-paced tech start-up
• Experience with illustration or animation (or both)
• Experience participating in or leading user research sessions

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Because Duolingo intends to require all employees to return to work from an office, all employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remain employed unless they have an exemption to vaccination pursuant to a required reasonable accommodation. This is so that our employees feel safe in the office.

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here .