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Manager, Strategy and Business Operations

Duolingo
Duolingo Salary
Pittsburgh, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/31/2026
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.

Read our blog to learn more.

About The Role...

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.

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

🧠 You will...

  • 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

✅ You have...

  • 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

⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...

  • 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

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

This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

Salary Range

$129,200—$174,800 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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