# Staff Product Researcher

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $181,600-$272,400 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8471742002
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0ed44094-3f7

## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

We're looking to hire a Staff Product Researcher to join our Product Research team to work directly with Designers and Product Managers to help us build a high-quality experience for our learners.

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.

You will:

- Set research direction with cross-functional partners by identifying the highest-impact questions and translating them into a clear, prioritized research projects

- Lead end-to-end research across the product lifecycle, including 0→1 discovery on big bets, concept testing, and post-launch UX/UI iterations

- Develop strong product intuition to generate insights and product ideas that connect the learner experience to product strategy, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes

- Build durable visibility for research: establish systems for sharing outputs and deliver regular, decision-focused updates that keep stakeholders aligned

- Elevate research impact through leadership beyond your own projects: mentor other researchers, uplevel our research practices, and introduce innovative methods/tooling when it increases speed and rigor

You have:

- 8+ years of experience leading product research for consumer-facing digital products, including owning complex problem spaces

- Mixed-method, collaborative research experience working with designers and product managers

- Experience using AI tools throughout the research process

- Demonstrated ability to generate clear and concise insights that deliver successful product outcomes

- Experience thriving in high-velocity environments while maintaining strong research rigor and craft

Exceptional candidates will have:

- Experience conducting international research or working with globally diverse audiences

- Familiarity with SQL

- Experience in consumer tech or gaming

## Skills

### Required
- product research
- mixed-method research
- AI tools
- SQL
- consumer tech
- gaming

### Nice to have
- international research
- globally diverse audiences