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It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!\nAt Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds - while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.\nJoin our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. \nRead our blog to learn more.\nAbout the role...\nDuolingo’s Brand Campaigns team creates culture-first ideas that earn attention, strengthen our brand, and inspire people to learn. We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director (art) to develop and deliver integrated campaigns that are unmistakably Duolingo. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll combine hands-on concepting with creative direction. You can turn brand strategy, cultural insights, and business goals into compelling work across social, video, experiential, out-of-home, partnerships, and emerging channels. You’ll partner closely with Brand Campaigns, Social, Product Marketing, PR, and global teams to guide ideas from brief through launch while maintaining a highest standard of craft.\n You will...\nDevelop original concepts and creative platforms for integrated brand campaigns, partnerships, product launches, and cultural moments.\nTranslate strategy and cultural insights into clear creative territories, narratives, and channel-specific executions.\nLead creative development from brief through launch, including concepting, presentations, production, feedback, and final delivery.\nCreate work directly while guiding designers, writers, animators, filmmakers, agencies, and production partners toward a cohesive vision.\nPresent creative recommendations to partners and senior leaders, explaining how the work supports the audience insight, brand strategy, and campaign goals.\nPartner with Brand Campaigns, Social, Product Marketing, PR, Growth, regional marketers, and Analytics to build ideas that work across channels and markets.\nProtect and evolve Duolingo’s voice and visual identity while adapting ideas for different audiences, platforms, and cultural contexts.\nUse campaign results, audience response, and post-launch learnings to improve future creative work.\nMentor creative collaborators through clear direction and actionable feedback without direct people-management responsibility.\n You have...\nA portfolio of integrated consumer-brand work that demonstrates original thinking, strong craft, measurable business impact, and has broken through in-culture.\nExperience developing campaigns across multiple formats and channels, such as social, film, out-of-home, experiential, partnerships, and digital.\nA track record of taking creative work from an open-ended brief through production and launch.\nStrong concepting and storytelling skills, with the ability to make brand and product messages entertaining, clear, and relevant.\nExperience directing multidisciplinary internal teams, agencies, freelancers, and production partners.\nSound creative judgment and the ability to give specific, constructive feedback that improves the work.\nClear written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including experience presenting and building alignment with cross-functional partners.\nAn understanding of internet culture, entertainment, and platform behavior-and judgment about when a cultural moment is right for a brand.\nComfort balancing creative ambition with audience needs, business goals, timelines, budgets, and production constraints.\nThe ability to move between strategic thinking and hands-on creative development in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.\n⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...\nExperience creating culturally resonant work that earned organic conversation, press, or community participation.\nExperience adapting global campaign ideas for local markets without losing the central creative concept.\nHands-on expertise in copywriting, art direction, design, or film direction.\nExperience using emerging creative tools, including generative AI, to explore and develop ideas responsibly.\nDeep enthusiasm for education, languages.\nYou are a student of culture and know which memes are hot and which memes are stale.\nPlease include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.\n\nThe offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!\nSalary Range:\n$163,200—$244,800 USD\nBenefits: Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.\nJob Alerts: Sign up for job alerts here.\nAccommodations: 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 .\nEqual Employment Opportunity: 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.\nFraud Warning: Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. 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