Staff Program Manager Brand Campaigns
DuolingoOur 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.
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About the role...
We’re hiring a Staff Program Manager to lead complex, multi-quarter programs that cut across teams and functions at Duolingo. You’ll operate with significant autonomy to turn strategy into clear, scalable execution, align senior stakeholders, and build the systems that help teams ship impactful work on time. You will design plans, manage dependencies, surface and resolve risks early, and continuously improve our processes so we can move fast without sacrificing quality. This role is ideal for a program leader who brings crisp structure to ambiguity and elevates how cross-functional work gets done at scale. This position will be based in New York City, with 10–15% travel for shoots, partner meetings, and company events. You will also manage and develop a bench of freelance program managers who can help scale your impact.
🧠 You will...
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of multiple complex, cross-functional programs from inception through launch, reporting and retro. You’ll help define scope, milestones, owners, success metrics, and decision logs.
- Build and maintain integrated program plans and timelines; proactively identify risks, manage dependencies, and drive mitigation plans to protect delivery and quality.
- Run effective operating rituals (kickoffs, status, reviews, exec updates, retros) that drive decisions, surface blockers, and create clear next steps for all partners.
- Align stakeholders across internal teams (e.g., Product, Engineering, Creative, Design, Analytics, Legal, and external partners and agencies) around goals, scope, and trade‑offs; communicate crisp status and recommendations to leadership.
- Create and improve lightweight processes, templates, and tools that teams actually adopt—raising the bar on documentation, visibi
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