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About 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.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Performance Marketing Lead to own paid user growth at Duolingo. You’ll help lead the strategy and team that bring new learners to Duolingo across 100+ markets and multiple products, including language, chess, and math. You’ll be accountable for growing high quality new users efficiently and proving the impact of that spend. You’ll partner with the Performance Marketing leadership team to shape where we invest next.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Own Duolingo’s paid user growth goals, setting the strategy for acquiring new users who stay and learn.
- check_circle Lead and develop a team of performance marketers, setting a high bar for craft, rigor, and ownership.
- check_circle Run user acquisition across platforms such as Google UAC, Meta, TikTok, AppLovin, and programmatic partners, plus channels in China, deciding where to scale, hold, or pull back as efficiency changes.
- check_circle Measure what user growth spend actually drives, using incrementality testing, saturation analysis, and new user quality metrics such as retention.
- check_circle Build creative testing at scale with agency, creator, UGC, and in house partners, and use results to shape what gets made next.
- check_circle Manage and hold agency and ad tech partners accountable for goals, pacing, and quality of execution.
- check_circle Flex spend with the organic calendar, partnering with Social, Brand, and Country Marketing around product launches, seasonal swings, and viral moments.
- check_circle Partner with Product and Engineering on measurement infrastructure, onboarding for paid users, and tests that connect acquisition to retention.
- check_circle Turn performance into clear recommendations for marketing leadership, including what isn’t working.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 8+ years of experience in performance marketing or paid user acquisition, with a focus on large scale, global mobile acquisition campaigns.
- check 3+ years leading teams of performance marketers.
- check A track record of owning a large, multichannel performance budget and taking channels from test to scale.
- check Hands on experience with incrementality tests, saturation analysis, and LTV and ROAS models.
- check Deep knowledge of the mobile user acquisition ecosystem, including attribution technologies and iOS privacy frameworks such as SKAN.
- check Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams on performance marketing.
- check The judgment to recommend cutting or reallocating spend when returns don’t support it.
- check Clear, concise written communication, from channel detail to leadership level recommendations.
About Duolingo Greenhouse Board
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Duolingo Greenhouse Board is associated with Duolingo, a prominent technology and software company known for its popular language-learning platform. Operating within the tech sector and maintaining a presence in New York, NY, the entity relates to hiring and board functions within the broader Duolingo ecosystem, which leverages gamification and machine learning to deliver accessible education.