Staff Product Designer

Duolingo is on a mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. The Staff Product Designer will play a key role in shaping user experiences across Duolingo's mobile apps and website, collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers to create engaging and user-friendly designs.

Responsibilities:

• Work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app
• Play a leadership role on the product design team
• Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
• Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
• Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
• Work in a highly enthusiastic fashion with the design and product teams
• Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact
• Use a mix of internal and third-party AI tools at every step of your creative process

Requirements:

• An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples
• Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role
• A desire to strive for excellence in your work until all details are attended to
• The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions and seek feedback to help you produce your best work
• Experience ideating, building and prototyping with AI tools, like ChatGPT and Cursor
• Experience with managing early-career designers and an interest in developing design talent
• Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
• Illustration and/or animation skill-set
• Experience participating in or leading user research sessions
• Shipped AI-driven products