Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!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.Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.Readour blogto learn more.

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

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.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

Readour blogto learn more.

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Join us to build Duolingo’s direct ad business.

We are seeking a Director of Ads to build our direct ad business from the ground up. As the founding member of our sales team, you will develop Duolingo’s ad strategy and lead our ad sales initiatives. You’ll collaborate closely with our Business, Monetization, Product, and Design teams to formulate strategies for innovative ad formats that excite advertisers while building on Duolingo’s tenets of gamification, delightful design, brand equity, and character IP.

This is a global role, reporting into our VP of Business Development, where you will work in a high-velocity environment to lay the foundation for a new business line for Duolingo, leveraging your extensive network to generate demand and drive value to Duolingo and our advertising partners. This position offers a unique, zero-to-one, opportunity to play a pivotal part in shaping the trajectory of ads on Duolingo for hundreds of millions of learners.

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We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

Salary Range:

$208,000—$378,000 USD