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Duolingo

Business Development Lead

🇺🇸 New York, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $172K - $312K

💻 Project Management

🗓️ September 11th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Duolingo is hiring a Business Development Lead. This role involves driving growth by establishing product partnerships that enhance app features and consumer partnerships that boost brand awareness, user growth, and monetization. The position requires close collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing teams to source, negotiate, and implement strategic partnerships.

Highlights
  • Lead strategic growth through product and consumer partnerships with OEMs, payment providers, AI companies, and others.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to influence product integrations.
  • Source, negotiate, and implement partnerships that impact user growth, subscription revenue, and brand awareness.
  • Develop business cases and track measurable results for partnership initiatives.
  • Work with Marketing to amplify partnership launches via promotional activities.
  • Requires 5+ years in business development within digital consumer tech (B2C) and 2+ years in management consulting or investment banking.
  • Experience building product partnerships in AI, Payments, or Mobile sectors is essential.
  • Strong critical thinking, communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
  • Salary range is $172,000 to $312,000 USD, exclusive of equity compensation and benefits.
  • Preferred qualifications include MBA, mobile app and subscription service experience, and proficiency in a third language.

Business Development Lead Full Description

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...
As a Business Development Lead, you will take a strategic, structured, and proactive approach to growing our business through product partnerships that enable our app's features and consumer partnerships that drive brand awareness, monetization, and user growth for Duolingo.
 
You will...
  • Work closely with Product/Engineering to influence product integrations vital to get strategic partnerships off the ground, particularly with OEMs, payment providers, AI players and others
  • Grow our partnership portfolio by sourcing, conceptualizing, negotiating and implementing opportunities with measurable impact to business metrics, such as user growth, subscription revenue and brand awareness
  • Build compelling and quantifiable business cases for strategic bets to pursue
  • Collaborate with Marketing teams to amplify partnership launches through buzzworthy activations
 
You have...
  • 5+ years of business development experience, having successfully developed partnerships in the digital consumer tech (B2C) space
  • 2+ years of management consulting or investment banking experience
  • Experience building product partnerships in with AI, Payments or Mobile players
  • Experience conceiving, developing, and implementing partnerships throughout their full cycles, from deal sourcing, to building business cases, negotiating agreements, driving and tracking results
  • Critical thinking and structured thought process, with skills to build and communicate compelling, data-driven narratives
  • Ambitious spirit with a track record of driving impact by building long-lasting external relationships, collaborating effectively with multiple internal teams to drive ideas to execution, and taking a test and scale approach
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills
 
 Exceptional candidates will have...
  • Experience with mobile apps and subscription services
  • MBA from reputable university
  • Proficiency in a 3rd language
  • Excitement for our mission to make high-quality learning accessible to everyone
 
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

Salary Range: 
$172,000—$312,000 USD

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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 accommodations@duolingo.com.

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