Design Program Manager, Intern

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that’s where you come in!

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test.

We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

From our mobile apps and website, to our beloved brand, to community and experiential events—we take pride in, and agonize over, crafting a user-friendly (and fun) experience for everyone. As a Design Program Manager Intern you will report to a Senior Design Program Manager in Duolingo’s Design Org—the instrumental creative partner in most projects.

You will work alongside artists, designers and Program Managers on an array of creative assignments. The work that you facilitate will help make Duolingo’s products beautiful and impactful in a way that always puts our learners first.

Will you join us on our mission?

More information on our University Programs can be found at university.duolingo.com

What you’ll do...

• Help Program Managers, artists and designers track and deliver projects
• Coordinate team comms; taking meeting notes and following up on key action items
• Facilitate hand off of project results
• Ensure design documentation and artifacts are up to date
• Field incoming project requests and help develop briefs, plans, and schedules
• Audit, prioritize and propose improvements to our tooling stack (Drive, Figma, Lingo)
• Have the opportunity to own and run select work streams for Duolingo’s Design Studio

What we’re looking for…

• A bachelor's degree by spring 2023
• A meticulous sense of organization, with a passion for operational excellence
• A desire to work in a creative environment with artists and designers
• Someone who is task oriented and proactive, always looking for problems to tackle
• Effective and efficient written and spoken communication
• Ability to relocate to and work in Pittsburgh, PA

Exceptional Candidates have:

• Experience leading large group projects for University associations that involve design results
• Student leadership experience
• An interest in design and design sense

Why you’ll love working here…

• Language learning opportunities
• Catered in-house lunches, and breakfast and dinner options
• Company-wide Hackathon
• PTO and company holidays
• Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Because Duolingo intends to require all employees to return to work from an office, all employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remain employed unless they have an exemption to vaccination pursuant to a required reasonable accommodation. This is so that our employees feel safe in the office.

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.