# Manager, Strategy and Business Operations

**Company:** [Duolingo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duolingo)
**Location:** Pittsburgh, PA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $129k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** strategy development, Market Analysis, Data Analysis, Cross-Functional Collaboration, framework building, hypothesis generation, industry research, Product Management, consumer tech, mobile apps, subscription services
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Strategy and Business Operations Manager partnering with Growth, Learning, and Monetization leaders at Duolingo to develop strategies, assess market opportunities, and drive cross-functional alignment using data-driven frameworks. Requires 3+ years experience, strong analytical and collaboration skills, and passion for education tech.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop actionable strategies: collaborate with cross-functional leaders to combine market understanding, user insights, and product vision into strategies that teams will pursue to achieve Duolingo's mission.
- Sprint to assess opportunities & markets: identify and assess compelling opportunities for Duolingo. This spans problem-space definition, hypothesis generation, industry research, execution and iteration.
- Lead with data, structure, and judgment: establish success metrics, build clear frameworks, and make trade-offs across competing priorities.
- Partner cross-functionally: work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, data science, and finance.
- Learn and grow: rapidly gain new skills, methods, and industry learnings as you deliver world-class strategy work alongside talented colleagues across disciplines.

## Requirements
- Fast, flexible, and outcomes-oriented: able and excited to thrive with rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action.
- Analytical chops and logical thinking: develops data and fact-based understanding of complex problems. Able to simplify findings to clear conclusions.
- Strong people skills, including a demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Early career: 3+ years of professional experience.
- Excitement for our mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in a strategy or biz ops function, strategy consulting, product management or strategic corporate development.
- Strong knowledge of and passion for the consumer tech industry.
- Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services.
- Experience working with global / international teams.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects in a high-growth environment.

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