Duolingo

Senior Performance Marketing Manager

Duolingo 📍 New York, USA 🏢 On-site Posted Sep 2, 2026 via Duolingo careers
full-time 📂 Marketing & Advertising 🏢 On-site 🏭 Education

✨ Job Highlights

  • ★Pay: $142,800 to $193,200 a year
  • ★On-site: New York
  • ★Full-time role in marketing & advertising
  • ★Apply directly on Duolingo's careers site
  • ★Posted September 2, 2026

Full Job Description

Senior Performance Marketing Manager job at Duolingo in New York

Duolingo is recruiting a Senior Performance Marketing Manager to join the team in New York. This is full-time work at Duolingo's location. Pay for this role is set at $142,800 to $193,200 a year, according to the posting.

Here is the role as Duolingo describes it.

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.

Read our blog to learn more.

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 targets.
  • ⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...

  • Experience in running performance marketing for a top subscription-based mobile app.
  • Familiarity with incremental measurement methodologies (e.g., geo-lift, incrementality testing, media mix modeling).
  • A passion about Duolingo’s mission to make education universally accessible.
  • The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

    Salary Range: $142,800 to $193,200 USD

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    Accommodations: We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.

    Equal Employment Opportunity: Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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    Common questions

    What is the salary for the Senior Performance Marketing Manager role at Duolingo?

    Duolingo advertises $142,800 to $193,200 a year for this role.

    Can I work remotely in this job?

    No, it is an on-site job in New York.

    What experience do I need for this Senior Performance Marketing Manager job?

    The posting mentions skills such as Recruiting. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply for the Senior Performance Marketing Manager job?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Duolingo's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    When was this job posted?

    Duolingo published the role on September 2, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Duolingo careers page (careers.duolingo.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Recruiting

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    🏢 Company Duolingo
    📍 Location New York, USA
    💼 Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode 🏢 On-site
    🏭 Industry Education
    🗓 Posted Date Sep 2, 2026
    🔗 Via Duolingo careers
    📅 Deadline Dec 15, 2034

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