Strategy and Business Operations Manager

Company: Duolingo
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Job Description:

  • This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution
  • You will balance speed and rigor to resolve ambiguity and turn one-off wins into scalable systems
  • As a Strategy & Business Operations Manager at Duolingo, you will play a key role in shaping Duolingo’s path towards becoming a 100-year company
  • You will partner closely with leaders across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more to create clarity and alignment that unlocks faster progress for Duolingo’s top priorities
  • Develop actionable strategies: collaborate with cross-functional leaders to combine market understanding, user insights, and product vision into strategies that teams will pursue to achieve Duolingo’s mission
  • Sprint to assess opportunities & markets: identify and assess compelling opportunities for Duolingo. This spans problem-space definition, hypothesis generation, industry research, execution and iteration
  • Lead with data, structure, and judgment: establish success metrics, build clear frameworks, and make trade-offs across competing priorities
  • Partner cross-functionally: work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance
  • Learn and grow: rapidly gain new skills, methods, and industry learnings as you deliver world-class strategy work alongside talented colleagues across disciplines

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision for employees as well as eligible partners and dependents
  • Mental health benefits such as therapy sessions and coaching to support you to be your best self
  • Fertility benefits to support your family planning journey
  • Fully paid parental and adoption leave
  • Fully paid subscription to Care.com and paid backup days for dependents and your fur family
  • 401(k) with generous match and immediate vesting
  • 20 days of paid time off, with two additional weeks off for winter break
  • First-time home buyer bonus (in Pittsburgh)
  • Competitive salaries and equity
  • Yearly stipend for professional development
  • Transportation reimbursement for however you get to work
  • Lunch prepared daily by our in-house chefs
  • Annual international retreat for all full-time employees
  • Monthly events celebrating our team and their amazing work
  • On-site gym and massages
  • Game room for taking brain breaks

Analytical chops and logical thinking: develops data and fact-based understanding of complex problems. Able to simplify findings to clear conclusionsFast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to thrive with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and actionStrong people skills, including a demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholdersExcitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally availableEarly career: 3+ years of professional experienceStrong knowledge of and passion for the consumer tech industryExperience in a strategy or biz ops function, strategy consulting, product management or strategic corporate developmentExperience with mobile apps and subscription-based servicesExperience leading cross-functional projects in a high-growth environmentExperience working with global / international teams

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Posted: October 9th, 2026