Performance Marketing LeadNew$245K

The opportunity

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!

What you'll do

  • Own Duolingo’s paid user growth goals, setting the strategy for acquiring new users who stay and learn.

  • Lead and develop a team of performance marketers, setting a high bar for craft, rigor, and ownership.

  • Run user acquisition across platforms such as Google UAC, Meta, TikTok,: AppLovin, and programmatic partners, plus channels in China. You’ll decide where to scale, hold, or pull back as efficiency changes.

  • Measure what user growth spend actually drives, using incrementality testing,: saturation analysis, and new user quality metrics such as retention.

  • Build creative testing at scale with agency, creator, UGC, and in house: partners, and use results to shape what gets made next.

  • Manage and hold agency and ad tech partners accountable for goals, pacing, and quality of execution.

What they're looking for

  • Flex spend with the organic calendar, partnering with Social, Brand, and: Country Marketing around product launches, seasonal swings, and viral moments.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on measurement infrastructure,: onboarding for paid users, and tests that connect acquisition to retention.
  • Turn performance into clear recommendations for marketing leadership, including what isn’t working.
  • + years of experience in performance marketing or paid user acquisition, with: a focus on large scale, global mobile acquisition campaigns.