Head of Influencers & Community

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the full influencer, creator, and community flywheel from strategy to execution and scale it into a measurable, top-of-funnel growth engine
• Build and operate our partnerships across celebrities, influencers, and creators from deal flow and negotiation to creative and results, optimizing for CPM and cost-per-new-user
• Architect a world-class advocate network that converts brand love into measurable word-of-mouth growth, and keeps Duolingo culturally relevant at scale
• Design and launch a tiered loyalty and rewards program that turns our most engaged learners into an owned growth channel
• Collaborate deeply with product teams to increase in-app shareability, surface community-driven content, and create in-app features that reward and incentivize organic advocacy
• Ensure new feature launches, vertical expansions, and cultural moments are systematically amplified through creator and community channels
• Lead, develop, and build a high-performing team that executes at startup speed across the org

Requirements

• Experience driving measurable business outcomes across the creator & community industry
• Built or led a product at scale in the creator economy
• Pioneered success building multi-platform advocacy programs with measurable ROI and business growth
• Experience owning a product roadmap
• Experience in managing a scaled influencer program that contributed significantly to top of funnel growth
• Deep understanding of attribution, social, and product analytics with a proven track record of building scalable success frameworks

Qualifications

• Founder experience working in a 0 to 1 environment in the tech space
• Experience working at a world-class consumer brand
• A passion for education, culture, and language

Skills

• Strategic thinking and execution
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
• Experience with influencer marketing and community management
• Understanding of digital marketing and analytics

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, equity compensation, and comprehensive benefits package. For more information, visit our benefits page.

Schedule

Full-time position.

Pay

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.