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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 hiring a Head of Talent Management Programs & PMO to architect, run, and continuously improve Duolingo’s most critical talent systems. Reporting to the Head of Talent Management & Rewards, you will translate people strategy into intuitive, scalable programs and a disciplined operating cadence—spanning performance and promotion frameworks, talent reviews and succession, manager enablement, and the portfolio governance that keeps everything on time and high‑quality. You’ll build the “through line” across Talent Management and Rewards, with clear metrics and crisp execution that match Duolingo’s clock speed.
Talent Program Architecture & Strategy
- End-to-End Program Design: Lead the evolution of core talent cycles, including performance management, 360-degree feedback, and promotion frameworks, ensuring they align with a high-performance culture.
- Competency & Career Mapping: Architect standardized competency models and career ladders that provide clear, transparent growth trajectories for all global functions.
- Succession & Talent Readiness: Design and facilitate the talent review process, identifying high-potential leaders and building a data-backed succession pipeline to future-proof the organization.
- Manager Enablement: Partner with cross-functional partners to ensure talent programs provide managers with the tools and insights needed to lead high-performing teams.
Portfolio Leadership & PMO Governance
- Strategic Roadmap Management: Own the TMR integrated roadmap, maintaining centralized visibility into project health, dependencies, and resource allocation to ensure on-time delivery.
- Operational Excellence: Establish and iterate on a "lean" project management methodology that prioritizes speed and impact over administrative overhead.
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Act as the primary connector between Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, and Business Leadership to ensure talent initiatives are integrated and cohesive.
Performance Analytics & Insights
- The Talent Dashboard: Develop an enterprise performance framework using key metrics (e.g., promotion velocity, retention, talent density) to measure the ROI of our people programs.
- First-Principles Analysis: Leverage data to conduct root-cause analysis on organizational trends, providing executive leadership with actionable insights to inform policy and resource decisions.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Lead the evolution of core talent cycles, including performance management, 360-degree feedback, and promotion frameworks.
- check_circle Architect standardized competency models and career ladders providing clear growth trajectories for global functions.
- check_circle Design and facilitate the talent review process to identify high-potential leaders and build a data-backed succession pipeline.
- check_circle Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure talent programs equip managers to lead high-performing teams.
- check_circle Own the TMR integrated roadmap, maintaining centralized visibility into project health, dependencies, and resource allocation.
- check_circle Establish and iterate on a lean project management methodology prioritizing speed and impact.
- check_circle Act as the primary connector between Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, and Business Leadership.
- check_circle Develop an enterprise performance framework utilizing key metrics like promotion velocity, retention, and talent density.
- check_circle Conduct first-principles data analysis on organizational trends to provide executive leadership with actionable insights.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 8+ years in Talent Management, People Operations, and portfolio/program management, including senior-level ownership of company-wide talent programs in fast-paced, product-led or high-growth environments.
- check Comfort and curiosity with AI tools as applied to talent program design, analytics, and portfolio management.
- check Proven track record building or leading a PMO with clear outcomes shipping complex, multi-stakeholder programs on time.
- check Depth in modern talent practices: performance systems, org design, competency/career frameworks, succession planning, and manager effectiveness.
- check Expert operational rigor with program/project management frameworks and process improvement (e.g., PMP, PgMP, Agile, Lean principles).
- check Strong data fluency and a product mindset for people analytics to design dashboards that tell a story and drive accountability.
- check Excellent executive communication and influence to simplify complexity and align stakeholders.
About Duolingo Greenhouse Board
Verified hiring organization details.
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.