Senior Data Scientist, Duolingo
Language education platform
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Language education platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Duolingo's mission is to give everyone access to a private tutor experience through technology, making learning fun and providing universal access to language education.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems)
- 5+ years of experience in data science, business intelligence, or related roles
- Experience in programming (e.g., Python, R) to extract, transform, clean, and analyze large amounts of data
- Advanced SQL skills to build datasets that enable ad-hoc analyses and efficient visualization
- Expertise in data visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, or Looker for full-stack data analysis, insight synthesis, and presentation
- Outstanding problem-solving abilities and the capacity to distill complex data into concise explanations and actionable insights
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
- Able to relocate to and work in our New York or Pittsburgh office
Desirable
- Master's degree in data science, economics, statistics, or an equivalent quantitative field
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience training machine learning models and deploying them in production
- Experience at a high-growth company that has undertaken an IPO
- An impressive Duolingo XP or streak!
What the job involves
- At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike
- You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful
- We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data Science & Analytics team
- You will be responsible for understanding how changes in our most granular metrics impact our top-line business performance, then concisely communicating those insights to senior company leaders
- You will also work closely with engineering teams and product managers to harness that understanding and improve the app through experimentation
- By working cross-functionally to empower our partners with empirical insights, you will drive real change and measurable impact for Duolingo every day
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather, integrate, and analyze data from various sources
- Lead analytics solutions end-to-end, including project management, data gathering and manipulation, modeling, problem-solving, and communication of insights and recommendations
- Build engaging and informative dashboards using visualization tools (e.g., Sigma, Tableau, Plotly), and use these tools to analyze trends and make recommendations
- Run periodic business reviews to keep senior leadership updated on how the company is operating from a bottoms-up view, and perform deep-dive analyses to understand the underlying causes
- Use business review insights to pinpoint growth opportunities, then drive that growth via product experiments and changes
- Mentor and guide junior data scientists in developing their analytical skills and communication
Our take
Duolingo is a free to use language learning app, offering 95 courses across 38 distinct languages. It is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and has previously been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.
With over 500 million learners, the company has unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Its team of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve its effectiveness.
Alongside language courses, the company has created the Duolingo English Test which is an affordable and convenient language certification option accepted by more than 2,000 universities and institutions worldwide. Since its 2021 IPO, Duolingo has shown strong momentum and regular changes to the app have brought increased user engagement, retention, and stronger conversion.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% female employees
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2020
$35m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$10m
LATE VC
Total funding: $183.3m
Company 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
Company values
- Learners First - Our mission and reason for existing is to make sure everyone in the world has access to high-quality education
- Take The Long View - If it works in the short-term but hurts Duolingo in the long-term, it's not right. We make decisions that keep us moving toward our big goals
- Prioritize Ruthlessly - We have millions of learners and only hundreds of employees, so our work must focus on initiatives that have high return on investment. Make your time matter
- Ship It - For a good idea to become reality, it needs a plan and a sense of urgency. So go go go!
- Test Everything - We measure and test everything so we can make informed decisions based on data
- We Haven’t Won Yet - Until every person who wants to learn is doing so with Duolingo, we need to keep innovating, pushing the envelope, and learning ways to get better
- Strive For Excellence - To change how the world learns, we must do world-class work. From the people we hire to the features we ship, we never settle for just okay
- All For One, One For All - We stay engaged and make choices that benefit the greater good-because Duolingo's success is our success
- Be Candid And Kind - We build things together with transparency and care for each other. We offer feedback compassionately but with excellence in mind, and receive it openly and as an opportunity to grow
Company HQ
East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA
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Leadership
Luis von Ahn
(CEO)Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA sold to Google.
Severin Hacker
(CTO)PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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