Senior Product Writer, Duolingo
$153-207k
Language education platform
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Language education platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153-207k
1001+ employees
Company mission
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
- A brain that’s always buzzing with ideas
- A portfolio with compelling UX writing examples for a consumer app
- Experience in both UX writing and consumer copywriting
- A gift for expressing complicated things in plain language
- An ability to adapt your writing for different voices
- Experience taking a leadership stance, whether in title or behavior
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York City
Desirable
- Experience writing and designing for payment flows
- Experience developing new and novel content models
- Experience collaborating with translators
- A Duolingo streak!
What the job involves
- As a writer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning
- Give voice to Duolingo’s features and functionality, writing in the Duolingo voice and from the perspective of characters like Lily and Oscar
- Drive the messaging, content strategy, and naming for product experiences, landing on pithy turns of phrase that land with our learners
- Partner with product designers and product managers on new features and interactions based on data and insights
- Design new pathways to content, make existing features better, and craft fun, new ways for our learners to unlock knowledge
- Focus on a few projects at a time and drive their content strategy
- Run experiments and share insights so your wins can have a greater impact
- Work with our localization team to ensure A+ translation
- Report to the Director of Product Writing. We sit within the Design department, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo
Application process
- Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy
Our take
Duolingo is a free to use language learning app, offering 100+ courses in more than 40 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 registered users, 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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 HQ
East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Luis von Ahn
(CEO & Co-founder)Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA sold to Google.
Severin Hacker
(CTO & Co-founder)PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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