About this role
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!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
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About the role...
We’re looking for a Senior Performance Marketing Manager to drive Duolingo’s global user acquisition campaigns across multiple channels. In this hands-on role, you’ll be directly responsible for running and optimizing mobile acquisition at scale, supporting an eight-figure annual budget in close partnership with our agency partners and internal teams. This is a unique opportunity to do high-impact, executional work on one of the world’s most beloved and innovative brands, reaching millions of learners worldwide.
🧠 You will...
• Own day-to-day execution of global performance marketing campaigns, including setting the creative strategy, with a primary focus on mobile user acquisition and growth.
• Strategically run and optimize mobile install campaigns across major platforms, such as Google UAC, Meta. Tiktok, and programmatic partners, focusing on high LTV/CAC, efficient spend, and sustainable global growth.
• Manage and hold accountable Duolingo’s performance marketing agency partners, ensuring alignment on goals, pacing, and quality of execution.
• Leverage deep, data-driven insights to guide decisions, constantly improving key KPIs like CPI, retention, and monetization metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across Marketing Analytics, Creative, Engineering, and Finance to align efforts and maximize impact.
• Champion a culture of experimentation, continuously testing new channels, creative approaches, and optimization strategies to unlock new growth opportunities.
• Develop and present strategic recommendations to marketing leadership, translating campaign performance into actionable insights and proposals.
✅ You have...
• Experience running large-scale, global mobile acquisition campaigns.
• Strong analytical skills, with expertise in mobile attribution and marketing analytics.
• A successful track record of owning and optimizing large performance marketing budgets with direct, hands-on execution.
• Deep knowledge of the mobile user acquisition ecosystem, including platforms, attribution technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
• Exceptional ability to translate data into strategy and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience working with and managing agency partners to deliver against performance targ