Staff Product Designer

About this role

<p class="Z7ph2">Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!</p> <p class="Z7ph2">Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality <a class="Z7ph2" href="https://www.instagram.com/duolingodesign/?utm_source=greenhouse.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=designig_gh_091224">experiences that look and feel fun</a>. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, 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. </p> <p class="Z7ph2">Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.</p> <hr> <h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>This role is a key part of the Design team—Duolingo’s key creative partner across nearly every project. From our mobile apps and website to our brand voice, email newsletters, and community events, the Design team helps shape the full user experience. At Duolingo, we take pride in crafting experiences that are both user-friendly and fun—and we sweat the details to get them just right.</p> <p> </p> <h4><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://careers.duolingo.com/274c0c8ca00d7c576894.svg" alt="icon-brain-16px" width="17" data-is360="0">  You will...</strong></h4> <ul> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-reset public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="431cp" data-offset-key="2h8g6-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2h8g6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2h8g6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="431cp" data-offset-key="5kg9a-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5kg9a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5kg9a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Play a </span></span><span id="popover-trigger-:rp:" class="chakra-text css-1j6t0d7"><span data-offset-key="5kg9a-1-0"><span data-text="true">leadership</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="5kg9a-2-0"><span data-text="true"> role on the product design team</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="431cp" data-offset-key="abpc5-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="abpc5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="abpc5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="431cp" data-offset-key="6lp41-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6lp41-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6lp41-0-0"><span data-text="true">Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="431cp" data-offset-key="7nkvl-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7nkvl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7nkvl-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="431cp" data-offset-key="7d0hk-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7d0hk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7d0hk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Work in a highly enthusiastic fashion with the design and product teams</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true"…