Senior Product Writer
Duolingo
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Job Description
About Duolingo
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About The Role
As a Senior Product Writer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
You will...
- Give voice to Duolingo’s features and functionality, writing in the Duolingo voice and from the perspective of characters like Lily and Oscar
- Drive the messaging, content strategy, and naming for product experiences, landing on pithy turns of phrase that land with our learners
- Partner with product designers and product managers on new features and interactions based on data and insights
- Design new pathways to content, make existing features better, and craft fun, new ways for our learners to unlock knowledge
- Focus on a few projects at a time and drive their content strategy
- Run experiments and share insights so your wins can have a greater impact
- Work with our localization team to ensure A+ translation
- Report to the Director of Product Writing. We sit within the Design department, the instrumental creative partner in most projects at Duolingo
You have...
- A brain that’s always buzzing with ideas
- A portfolio with compelling UX writing examples for a consumer app
- Experience in both UX writing and consumer copywriting
- A gift for expressing complicated things in plain language
- An ability to adapt your writing for different voices
- Experience taking a leadership stance, whether in title or behavior
- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York City
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience writing and designing for payment flows
- Experience developing new and novel content models
- Experience collaborating with translators
- A Duolingo streak!
Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.
Key skills/competency
- UX Writing
- Content Strategy
- Copywriting
- Product Design Collaboration
- Messaging & Naming
- Localization
- A/B Testing
- User Experience
- Brand Voice
- Content Modeling
How to Get Hired at Duolingo
- Research Duolingo's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor to understand their unique approach to education and design.
- Tailor your portfolio: Showcase compelling UX writing and consumer copywriting examples, specifically highlighting work for consumer apps and demonstrating your ability to distill complex ideas into plain, fun language.
- Highlight leadership and impact: Emphasize experiences where you've driven content strategy, run experiments, shared insights, or taken a leadership stance in past roles.
- Demonstrate passion for learning: Connect your skills to Duolingo's mission by discussing your interest in education, language learning, and how you bring 'quirk and fun' to user experiences.
- Prepare for collaborative interviews: Be ready to discuss how you partner with product designers, product managers, and localization teams, showcasing your cross-functional communication skills.
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