Manager, Strategy and Business Operations

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, spanning 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

• Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to thrive with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action
• Analytical chops and logical thinking: develops data and fact-based understanding of complex problems. Able to simplify findings to clear conclusions
• Strong people skills, including a demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
• Early career: 3+ years of professional experience
• Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available

• Experience in a strategy or biz ops function, strategy consulting, product management or strategic corporate development
• Strong knowledge of and passion for the consumer tech industry
• Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services
• Experience working with global / international teams
• Experience leading cross-functional projects in a high-growth environment

Salary Range: $129,200—$174,800 USD. Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.

This role is based in our Pittsburgh HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week.