# Staff Product Designer

**Company:** [Duolingo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duolingo)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** Figma, Sketch, Mobile Design, Web Design, Prototyping, AI Tools, ChatGPT, Cursor, Animation, Illustration
**Posted:** 2026-02-02

> Lead product design for Duolingo's language app, collaborating with engineers and PMs to craft fun, user-friendly experiences across mobile and web. Requires strong portfolio in consumer apps, AI prototyping skills, and attention to detail.

## Job Description

### You will...
- Work on the user experience across features within the Duolingo language app
- Play a **leadership** role on the product design team
- Work collaboratively with designers and artists to build upon and expand the Duolingo design language
- Partner with engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our products
- Sometimes work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features
- Work in a highly enthusiastic fashion with the design and product teams
- Consider all parts when crafting the experience: from copy to animation to business impact
- Use a mix of internal and third-party AI tools at every step of your creative process

### You have...
- An online portfolio with mobile app or web design samples
- Design experience in a consumer application, product, or software role
- A desire to strive for excellence in your work until all details are attended to
- The ability to explain your work, process, and decisions, and seek feedback to help you produce your best work
- Experience ideating, building, and prototyping with AI tools, like ChatGPT and Cursor

### Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience with managing early-career designers and an interest in developing design talent
- Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up
- Illustration and/or animation skill-set
- Experience participating in or leading user research sessions
- Shipped AI-driven products

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