Duolingo is hiring a
Data Scientist I

Summary

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. At Duolingo, you'll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of consumer digital products and an interest in applying advanced analytics to business outcomes
• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in a quantitative field (e.g. statistics, economics, computer science, math, linguistics, computational social science), with expected graduation by Fall 2024 or Spring/Summer 2025
• Previous experience analyzing large datasets and communicating results
• Skilled in SQL, Python or R, and/or statistical methods to analyze behavioral data
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Enthusiasm for learning and sharing analytical methods to help grow a collaborative Data Science team and data-forward company culture
• Able to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY

Responsibilities

• Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results
• Apply advanced analytical methods to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new features. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop and implement solutions
• Evaluate product experiments to create and improve user experiences
• Build dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts to help preserve our culture of fact-based decision making as we scale
• Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection is high (and improving!)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with 'big data' and cloud computing technologies like BigQuery, Snowflake, and/or dbt
• Experience articulating business questions and using available data to find answers that translate into product recommendations

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
• PTO and company holidays
• Catered in-house lunches and breakfast
• Company-wide Hackathon