# Senior People Technology Analyst

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $142,800-$193,200 USD
**Category**: HR
**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 Senior People Technology Analyst to own the automation layer that powers our People Team and add to our People technology thought leadership.

**Responsibilities:**

- Act as a strategic voice on People technology at Duolingo , developing a deep understanding of our current systems landscape, identifying gaps and opportunities, and partnering with People Team leadership to shape the roadmap of tools, platforms, and capabilities we invest in next

- Serve as a primary builder and technical owner of Workato-based automations across the People tech stack, designing and delivering workflows that connect systems, eliminate manual processes, and scale with the business

- Establish and own the governance framework for People Team automation , including standards, documentation practices, access controls, and policies that ensure our Workato environment is reliable, auditable, and well-maintained

- Identify and fill automation gaps across the People systems ecosystem , including Workday, Greenhouse, benefits platforms, payroll systems, and other third-party tools , ensuring accurate, reliable data flows across the full employee lifecycle

- Partner with stakeholders across the People Team and beyond to gather requirements, map processes, identify automation opportunities, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions

- Proactively identify and eliminate manual, repetitive processes across People operations , from onboarding and offboarding to employee data changes, approvals, and compliance workflows

- Stay current on the broader HR technology landscape, evaluating emerging tools and bringing forward recommendations that continuously raise the bar for how the People Team operates

- Maintain clear documentation of system configurations, integration architecture, and workflow logic to ensure continuity, scalability, and knowledge sharing across the team

**Requirements:**

- Minimum of a baccalaureate degree

- 5+ years of experience in HR technology, People systems, or a related technical role, bringing broad familiarity with the People technology landscape

- Demonstrated hands-on experience building and managing automations using Workato or a comparable iPaaS platform (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Zapier) , experience with Workato specifically is strongly preferred

- A proven track record of not just building automations, but owning them , including governance, documentation, and ongoing stewardship of solutions in production

- Proven ability to translate People team requirements into technical solutions, with demonstrated success eliminating manual processes through automation

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with high attention to detail and a bias toward clean, scalable, and well-governed solutions

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills , comfortable working across technical and non-technical audiences and influencing without direct authority

- A genuine teammate with a strong desire to help others; demonstrated success building trusted relationships within diverse groups; the ability to thrive and be resilient in a fast-paced, high-growth organization

- A high sense of discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality while handling sensitive employee data

**Nice to Have:**

- Workato certification(s)

- Strong working knowledge of Workday HCM, including experience with configuration, business process frameworks, reporting, and integrations

- Direct experience working within a People Team or HR function, with deep fluency in core HR processes across the employee lifecycle

- Experience establishing or maturing an automation governance practice , including defining standards, managing recipe libraries, and setting access and change control policies

- Familiarity with AI-enabled HR tools, agentic workflows, or emerging automation capabilities within People systems

- A natural curiosity about People tech, how systems connect, and a habit of asking "what should we automate next?" before anyone has to ask them

- Fluency in Google apps, Greenhouse, Jira, and other People systems

- An impressive Duolingo streak!

**Compensation:**

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

## Skills

### Required
- Workato
- HR technology
- People systems
- automation
- technical skills

### Nice to have
- Workato certification
- Workday HCM
- AI-enabled HR tools
- agentic workflows

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