# VP of Finance

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $330,000-$550,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

We're looking for a VP of Finance to join Duolingo's Senior Leadership Team and manage our Financial Planning & Analysis and Strategic Finance functions.

### About the Role

The VP of Finance will report to the CFO and serve as a source of financial integrity across Duolingo. This leader will co-own Duolingo's financial operating cadence, including annual and long-range planning, forecasting, and business reviews, and partner closely with Investor Relations, Treasury, and Corporate Development.

### Responsibilities

- Co-own Duolingo's financial operating cadence, including annual planning, long-range planning, forecasting, and company-wide business reviews.

- Partner closely with the CFO, Board of Directors, and senior leadership to provide rigorous financial insight that shapes company-wide strategy and resource allocation.

- Establish and uphold rigorous financial principles across the company, ensuring teams make decisions grounded in strong unit economics and long-term value creation.

- Serve as a key voice in communicating Duolingo's financial performance and long-term strategy to the Board and investors, partnering closely with Investor Relations on earnings materials, guidance, and external messaging.

- Define and refine the KPIs that drive operating discipline, ensuring alignment between financial performance, product strategy, and long-term mission impact.

- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing FP&A and Strategic Finance team (~10 people), raising the bar for analytical rigor and operational excellence.

- Operate cross-functionally by design , partnering deeply with Product, Growth, Marketing, Controllership, Investor Relations, and Corporate Development , to ensure aligned priorities and data-driven decision-making.

- Drive finance modernization, including the thoughtful integration of AI, data science and automation , leveraging quantitative and statistical methods to enhance forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and insight generation.

### Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.

- 15+ years of progressive finance experience in FP&A, Investment Banking, Corporate or Strategic Finance, including 5+ years leading and managing teams, ideally within a consumer technology, SaaS, subscription or marketplace business.

- Deep expertise in financial modeling, long-range planning, and capital allocation , including familiarity with data science and quantitative methods , with the ability to translate complex data into clear strategic insight.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex financial topics into clear, compelling narratives for executives, the Board, and investors.

- A strategic and business-minded perspective, capable of balancing financial rigor with bold, long-term thinking.

- A low-ego, high-EQ leadership style that builds trust across functions, earns credibility through impact, and operates both at strategic altitude and in the details.

### Nice to Have

- MBA or advanced degree in finance or a related field.

- Experience in a global publicly-traded company, with exposure to earnings preparation and investor relations, and with increasing levels of executive responsibility.

- Deep understanding of subscription economics, consumer product metrics, and global business models.

- Experience enabling Finance departments through AI, data science and advanced analytics, or automation.

### Benefits

- Salary Range: $330,000-$550,000 USD

- Equity compensation

- World-class benefits

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- long-range planning
- capital allocation
- data science
- quantitative methods
- financial analysis
- strategic finance
- FP&A

### Nice to have
- MBA
- advanced degree in finance
- global publicly-traded company experience
- subscription economics
- consumer product metrics
- AI
- advanced analytics
- automation

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