Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.
We are looking for a senior language educator and curriculum designer with linguistics training, deep expertise in Hindi, and strong knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity in India and the whole South Asian region.
You will help shape Duolingo's learning experiences for Indian languages by using your pedagogical expertise, cultural insight, and human-in-the-loop AI workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Lead curriculum and learning design for one or more South Asian languages (starting with Hindi), balancing delight, cultural relevance, and measurable learning impact.
- Leverage human-in-the-loop AI workflows and prompt engineering to generate and refine high-quality content efficiently while maintaining Duolingo's quality bar.
- Establish and maintain content quality systems (guidelines, rubrics, review workflows) to ensure linguistic accuracy, difficulty calibration, consistency, and brand voice across features and languages.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, and Scaling Operations to plan roadmaps, ship experiments, and build scalable content generation processes.
- Contribute to strategy for teaching Hindi and other South Asian languages, informed by an understanding of the wider regional linguistic and cultural context.
- Help identify, recruit, onboard, and manage freelance educators, linguists, cultural consultants, and language reviewers representing relevant regions and communities.
Requirements:
- Hindi teaching curriculum expertise.
- India-centered cultural and regional expertise.
- Knowledge and curiosity about India's broader linguistic landscape.
- Linguistics training and typological awareness.
- Analytical thinking.
- Creativity and product sense.
- Operational strength.
- Excellent communication and collaboration.
- Relevant academic or equivalent professional preparation.
Exceptional candidates will have:
- Working familiarity with Dravidian languages (particularly Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada) and understanding of key typological and pedagogical differences between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families.
- Experience building human-in-the-loop generative-AI workflows for multilingual educational content.
- Experience designing consumer-facing mobile or app-based language-learning products.
The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons.
Salary Range: $142,800-$193,200 USD
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