VP of Learning Design

The role

You will lead a 40+ person Learning Experience organization to improve how Duolingo teaches. You will build a high-performing leadership team and partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data across various subjects.

What you will do

• Identify opportunities to improve how Duolingo teaches and guide leaders to turn them into learning experiences
• Build a high-performing LX organization and leadership team
• Own organizational design, hiring, leadership development, performance management, succession planning, and team health
• Ensure LX delivers on commitments and allocate resources to high-impact work
• Hold leaders accountable for results and help them resolve obstacles
• Strengthen product capabilities across LX
• Coach leaders to make product decisions, write specs and roadmaps, and use AI to ship experiments
• Represent LX in cross-functional forums and build partnerships

Required qualifications

• Experience leading a multidisciplinary organization through directors and other senior leaders in a fast-moving, product-led environment
• A passion for people leadership with a track record of developing leaders and delivering results through others
• Meaningful grounding in learning design, learning science, or a related discipline
• Experience shaping consumer products through the teams you lead, including using AI to accelerate product development or content generation
• Excellent executive communication and judgment
• Ability to work from or relocate to New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA on a hybrid (4+1) schedule

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-powered learning experiences or systems for generating and evaluating learning content at scale
• Experience at a founder-led or rapidly scaling consumer technology company
• Significant experience using Duolingo, and opinions about how to make it better

About the company

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