Data Scientist, User Growth
Duolingo for SchoolsUnited States19 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
Track This Job
Add this job to your tracking list to:
- Monitor application status and updates
- Change status (Applied, Interview, Offer, etc.)
- Add personal notes and comments
- Set reminders for follow-ups
- Track your entire application journey
Save This Job
Add this job to your saved collection to:
- Access easily from your saved jobs dashboard
- Review job details later without searching again
- Compare with other saved opportunities
- Keep a collection of interesting positions
- Receive notifications about saved jobs before they expire
AI-Powered Job Summary
Get a concise overview of key job requirements, responsibilities, and qualifications in seconds.
Pro Tip: Use this feature to quickly decide if a job matches your skills before reading the full description.
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 finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data Science & Analytics team, with a focus on data modeling and insights to power our User Growth. You will be responsible for analyzing how current and future product changes impact our business performance metrics, then concisely communicating those insights to partner teams. You will also work closely with engineering teams and product managers to harness that understanding and improve the app through experimentation. By working cross-functionally to empower our partners with empirical insights, you will drive real change and measurable impact for Duolingo every day.
You will...
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 [email protected].
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.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sign up for job alerts here.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Salary Range
$135,000—$160,000 USD
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data Science & Analytics team, with a focus on data modeling and insights to power our User Growth. You will be responsible for analyzing how current and future product changes impact our business performance metrics, then concisely communicating those insights to partner teams. You will also work closely with engineering teams and product managers to harness that understanding and improve the app through experimentation. By working cross-functionally to empower our partners with empirical insights, you will drive real change and measurable impact for Duolingo every day.
You will...
- Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results
- Embed in teams with product managers and engineers to design, run, and analyze experiments to improve user experiences
- Apply advanced analytical methods to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new features. Partner with product and engineering teams to develop and implement solutions
- Build dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts (e.g., Sigma, Tableau, Plotly) to analyze trends, make recommendations, and help preserve our culture of fact-based decision making as we scale
- Collaborate with other data scientists to level up our company's scientific capabilities and data footprint
- Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection is high (and improving)
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems)
- Relevant experience in data science, advanced data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field
- Advanced SQL skills to build datasets that enable ad-hoc analyses and efficient visualization
- Expertise in data visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Hex, or Looker for full-stack data analysis, insight synthesis, and presentation
- Professional or academic experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and/or causal inference
- Experience in programming (e.g., Python, R) to extract, transform, clean, and analyze large amounts of data
- Experience training machine learning models and deploying them in production
- Outstanding problem-solving abilities and the capacity to distill complex data into concise explanations and actionable insights
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills that facilitate collaboration with both technical and non-technical partners
- Ability to relocate to and work in our Pittsburgh office
- Master's degree in data science, economics, statistics, or an equivalent quantitative field
- Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, a knack for prompt engineering, and a desire to continue to innovate and learn in AI
- Experience at a high-growth company that has undertaken an IPO
- An impressive Duolingo XP or streak!
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 [email protected].
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.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sign up for job alerts here.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Salary Range
$135,000—$160,000 USD
Key Skills
Ranked by relevanceReady to apply?
Join Duolingo for Schools and take your career to the next level!
Application takes less than 5 minutes