Financial Planning and Analysis Associate, Duolingo
Expenses
$124.1-201.3k
+ Equity
In office Tues-Thurs
3+ days a week in office
Language education platform
Open for applications
Language education platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$124.1-201.3k
+ Equity
In office Tues-Thurs
3+ days a week in office
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
- 2 - 4 years of relevant work experience in top-tier investment banking or FP&A at a high-growth technology company
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. You take pride in your analytical and financial modeling skills and enjoy applying them to tackle highly complex business problems
- Extraordinary attention to detail and an eye toward using the 80/20 rule to address problems
- Demonstrating excellent judgment in ambiguous or new situations to reach a solution or recommended path forward
- Structured thinking with a strong command of details that can be summarized into a compelling story to present relevant insights and conclusions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to create visually attractive, concise presentations for high-profile audiences in Google Slides and/or PowerPoint
Desirable
- Experience with subscription and/or digital goods business models at companies with millions of users
- Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or similar platforms
- Experience at a public technology company and familiarity with quarterly earnings call cycles
- An impressive Duolingo streak!
What the job involves
- 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
- The FP&A team at Duolingo is looking for a highly motivated finance professional to join us in supporting our company mission through delivering financial insights and effective partnerships
- In this role, you will work closely with our FP&A Director in partnering with a variety of teams around the company, including our People, Engineering, Marketing, Duolingo English Test, and other teams to support our continued rapid growth and profitability
- Develop and maintain financial models to support forecasting, earnings calls, strategic planning, and budgeting processes
- Analyze, understand, and communicate variance drivers compared to our internal forecast
- Synthesize complex financial analysis into easily digestible and actionable communications for our partners to support decision-making
- Work with our cross-functional partners to create clarity, alignment, and a team environment across projects with financial implications for Duolingo
- Contribute to high-profile materials for our board of directors, earnings calls, and senior executives
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
Articles
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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