Manager, Strategy and Business Operations
Develop actionable strategies and assess market opportunities by partnering with cross-functional leaders in growth, product, and monetization. Requires 3+ years experience, strong analytical skills, and ability to thrive in fast-paced environment.
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
Compensation
Salary Range: $129,200—$174,800 USD (not inclusive of equity compensation and benefits)
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