Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages

The role

You will lead curriculum and learning design for South Asian languages, starting with Hindi. You will use human-in-the-loop AI workflows and collaborate with product, engineering, and design partners to build mobile-first learning experiences.

What you will do

• Lead curriculum and learning design for South Asian languages.
• Leverage human-in-the-loop AI workflows and prompt engineering to generate content.
• Establish and maintain content quality systems including guidelines and rubrics.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, and Scaling Operations.
• Contribute to strategy for teaching Hindi and other South Asian languages.
• Identify, recruit, onboard, and manage freelance educators, linguists, and consultants.

Required qualifications

• Hindi teaching curriculum expertise.
• Deep proficiency in Hindi and experience teaching it as an additional language.
• India-centered cultural and regional expertise.
• Knowledge of the broader South Asian sociolinguistic and sociopolitical context.
• Linguistics training and typological awareness.
• Analytical thinking.
• Creativity and product sense.
• Operational strength.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.
• Graduate degree or equivalent practical experience in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Linguistics, Instructional Design, Learning Science, Indian or South Asian Languages, South Asian Studies

Nice to have

• Working familiarity with Dravidian languages (particularly Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada).
• Experience building human-in-the-loop generative-AI workflows for multilingual educational content.
• Experience designing consumer-facing mobile or app-based language-learning products.

About the company

Duolingo's mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.