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
Lead curriculum and learning design for one or more South Asian languages: (starting with Hindi), balancing delight, cultural relevance, and measurable learning impact.
Leverage human-in-the-loop AI workflows and prompt engineering to generate: and refine high-quality content efficiently while maintaining Duolingo’s quality bar.
Establish and maintain content quality systems (guidelines, rubrics, review: workflows) to ensure linguistic accuracy, difficulty calibration, consistency, and brand voice across features and languages.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, and Scaling: Operations to plan roadmaps, ship experiments, and build scalable content generation processes.
Contribute to strategy for teaching Hindi and other South Asian languages,: informed by an understanding of the wider regional linguistic and cultural context.
Help identify, recruit, onboard, and manage freelance educators, linguists,: cultural consultants, and language reviewers representing relevant regions and communities.
What they're looking for
- Hindi teaching curriculum expertise. You have deep proficiency in Hindi and: substantial experience teaching it as an additional language. You understand its grammar, pronunciation, writing system, registers, variation, and common learner challenges. You have experience designing Hindi curricula.
- India-centered cultural and regional expertise. Your cultural expertise is: deepest in India, and you understand the broader South Asian sociolinguistic and sociopolitical context. You can navigate questions of language and identity, script, register, standardization, multilingualism, regional variation, and cross-border language communities with nuance.
- Knowledge and curiosity about India’s broader linguistic landscape. You are: familiar with Hindi’s place within the Indo-Aryan language family, including its relationship with Urdu and points of comparison with languages such as Punjabi and Bengali. You’re eager and able to deepen your knowledge of other Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages quickly, and to collaborate effectively with language experts when working beyond your direct expertise.
- Linguistics training and typological awareness. You have a background in: linguistics, including language typology, and can apply it to unfamiliar languages – working effectively with language experts to identify learning challenges and design accurate, pedagogically sound courses.
