# Managing Editor

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in! At 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. Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. Read our blog to learn more. About the role... We're looking for a Managing Editor, Character IP to lead Duolingo's manga and anime expansion in Japan. This isn't a role for someone who manages timelines and coordinates vendors from a distance. You'll get into the weeds - developing Duo's Japanese character voice, writing plots when needed, identifying the right manga artists, and building the studio and TV network relationships that turn a great concept into something millions of people actually watch. Our roadmap goes manga first, then anime, with a TV morning show slot (think Chiikawa) as t

- **Id**: 227650
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/duolingo-blog-managing-editor>
- **Role**: Communications
- **Role family**: Communications
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tokyo, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-16T18:53:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:59:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 115
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5328
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Language Learning, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 19161
- **Name**: Duolingo
- **Domain**: duolingo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/duolingo-blog>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.636
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 17178000
- **Max**: 25767100
- **Currency**: JPY
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 164033

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 115

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: Japanese; Level: All levels; Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Japan** — Iso: JP; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T09:28:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.446
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 115
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 164033
- **Is top pay**: yes

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