Brand Campaigns Director

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...

Duolingo’s Brand Campaigns team builds culture-first ideas that make our brand famous and drive business results. We’re hiring a Brand Campaigns Director to lead high‑impact, multi‑workstream campaigns from concept to launch, uniting Brand Marketing, Brand Studio/Creative, Growth, Product, PR/Comms, regional marketers, and external partners. In this role, you will bridge the gap between long-term brand strategy and agile cultural execution, ensuring that our biggest creative moments not only capture immediate attention but also build sustainable brand equity, differentiation, and emotional resonance globally. You’ll set the bar for tentpole, partnership, and culturally relevant moments, define success metrics, and ensure our biggest ideas ship on time, on budget, and at Duolingo quality. This role is based in New York, with Pittsburgh considered for the right candidate. The team partners closely with Brand Studio and follows our marketing campaign process across planning, creative development, production, launch, and post‑mortem to scale what works across markets and channels.

🧠 You will...

• Formulate Campaign Brand Strategy: Translate macro brand positioning and long-term company goals into actionable, strategically sound creative briefs and overarching thematic campaign platforms.
• Uncover Consumer & Market Insights: Partner with research and strategic insights teams to deep-dive into consumer behaviors, audience segmentation, competitive landscapes, and cultural shifts, converting data into inspiring briefs that spark viral creative concepts.
• Own end‑to‑end strategy and execution for Tier 0–2 brand campaigns and partnerships, from business case and brief through creative development, production, launch, reporting, and retro.
• Lead cross‑functional alignment across Brand Marketing, Brand Studio/Creative, Growth, Product, PR/Comms, Channel Owners, Regional/Country Marketing, and agencies to deliver cohesive, on‑