Manager, Strategy and Business Operations

<p>Our 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!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. </p> <p>Read <a href="https://blog.duolingo.com/?utm_source=greenhouse.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=generalblog_gh_091224">our blog</a> to learn more.</p> <hr> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the role...</strong></p> <p>This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will balance speed and rigor to resolve ambiguity and turn one-off wins into scalable systems. </p> <p>As a Strategy & Business Operations Manager at Duolingo, you will play a key role in shaping Duolingo’s path towards becoming a 100-year company. You will partner closely with leaders across Growth, Language Learning, Monetization, and more to create clarity and alignment that unlocks faster progress for Duolingo’s top priorities. </p> <p>This role is based in our Pittsburgh HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p><strong>🧠  You will...</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Develop actionable strategies:</strong> collaborate with cross-functional leaders to combine market understanding, user insights, and product vision into strategies that teams will pursue to achieve Duolingo's mission</li> <li><strong>Sprint to assess opportunities & markets: </strong>identify and assess compelling opportunities for Duolingo. This spans problem-space definition, hypothesis generation, industry research, execution and iteration</li> <li><strong>Lead with data, structure, and judgment:</strong> establish success metrics, build clear frameworks, and make trade-offs across competing priorities</li> <li><strong>Partner cross-functionally: </strong>work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance </li> <li><strong>Learn and grow</strong>: rapidly gain new skills, methods, and industry learnings as you deliver world-class strategy work alongside talented colleagues across disciplines</li> </ul> <p><strong>✅  You have...</stro