UX Researcher, 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!

As a User Experience Research (UXR) Intern, you’ll be embedded into one of our product areas where you’ll contribute to innovative projects that affect our millions of users, while developing your career through hands-on learning and mentorship. We’ll provide you with support and guidance to advance your personal, professional, and technical skills as you make a real impact on one of the Duolingo products.

You Will...

• Work collaboratively with product managers, product designers, data scientists, and engineers, with the guidance and support of senior researchers
• Conduct foundational and evaluative research to glean insights that are concrete and valuable to influencing product strategy
• Work with product managers and designers to run usability studies of new designs and features
• Craft compelling narratives about our users’ needs, attitudes, aspirations, expectations, obstacles, and motivations

You Have...

• Currently pursuing an Advanced degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Anthropology, Statistics, or a related field
• Applied experience with user research projects
• Familiarity with the basics of qualitative research methods and framework
• A knack for getting to the heart of the matter, tellings stories and being convincing—making the opaque feel obvious in hindsight

Exceptional Candidates Will Have...

• Experience in a startup environment
• Expertise in linguistics or language learning
• Expertise in qualitative research methods and frameworks, such as in-depth interviews, diary studies, journey mapping, card sorting, or usability studies
• Comfort with quantitative research methods, including surveys and statistical analysis

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.

We aim to return to office, and as such are requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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