# Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages

**Company:** [Duolingo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duolingo)
**Location:** Pittsburgh, PA
**Role:** Content Design
**Salary:** $143k – $193k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Linguistics, Curriculum Design, Language Education, Instructional Design, Language Typology, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Content Quality Systems, Project Management, Product Design, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads curriculum and learning design for Hindi and other South Asian language courses, combining linguistic and cultural expertise with pedagogical practice, AI-assisted content workflows, and cross-functional product collaboration. Requires deep Hindi proficiency, linguistics training, curriculum design experience, and a graduate degree or equivalent experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead curriculum and learning design for one or more South Asian languages, starting with Hindi, balancing learner engagement, cultural relevance, and measurable learning impact.
- Use human-in-the-loop AI workflows and prompt engineering to generate and refine high-quality content while maintaining quality standards.
- Establish and maintain content quality systems, including guidelines, rubrics, and review workflows, to ensure linguistic accuracy, difficulty calibration, consistency, and brand voice.
- Partner 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 the broader regional linguistic and cultural context.
- Identify, recruit, onboard, and manage freelance educators, linguists, cultural consultants, and language reviewers.

## Requirements
- Deep proficiency in Hindi and substantial experience teaching Hindi as an additional language.
- Experience designing Hindi curricula.
- India-centered cultural and regional expertise, including understanding of South Asian sociolinguistic and sociopolitical contexts.
- Knowledge of language identity, script, register, standardization, multilingualism, regional variation, and cross-border language communities.
- Familiarity with Hindi’s place in the Indo-Aryan language family and its relationship with Urdu, Punjabi, and Bengali.
- Linguistics training, including language typology, with the ability to apply typological awareness to unfamiliar languages.
- Strong analytical thinking and the ability to distinguish errors from acceptable variation.
- Creativity, product sense, and ability to make learning experiences approachable, playful, culturally meaningful, and motivating.
- Strong project management, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Graduate degree or equivalent practical experience in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Linguistics, Instructional Design, Learning Science, Indian or South Asian Languages, South Asian Studies, or a related field.
- The role must be based in Pittsburgh, PA; remote or other locations are not accommodated.

## Nice-to-haves
- Working familiarity with Dravidian languages, particularly Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada.
- Understanding of typological and pedagogical differences between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families.
- Experience building human-in-the-loop generative-AI workflows for multilingual educational content.
- Experience designing consumer-facing mobile or app-based language-learning products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: **$142,800–$193,200 USD**.
- Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
- Benefits support employees’ holistic well-being.

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