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Duolingo is hiring a Head of Talent Management & Rewards. This role leads the integration of talent management and rewards strategies, oversees a high-performing team, partners with leaders to design impactful talent systems, and champions inclusion and data-driven decision-making to enhance employee growth and business outcomes.

Highlights

Lead integration of performance, development, and rewards strategies under the Talent Management & Rewards pillar.
Manage teams including Talent Partners, Total Rewards, and Talent Programs PMO.
Develop a scalable talent philosophy aligning with business needs and principles.
Partner with organizational leaders to craft rigorous and intuitive talent systems.
Utilize data to measure impact and continuously improve talent programs.
Promote inclusion, transparency, and equitable practices across all talent initiatives.
Provide strategic insights in executive and board-level forums.
Requires 15+ years in talent management, total rewards, and organizational development, preferably within tech or global settings.
Experience managing senior leaders and leading talent system transformations in dynamic environments.
Salary range from $189,600 to $342,000 USD plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Head of Talent Management & Rewards 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...

Join Duolingo as our Head of Talent Management & Rewards and help us build, grow, and retain the world-class team that’s changing how the world learns.

This is a unique opportunity to lead the newly integrated talent management structure, aligning talent and rewards strategy with the company’s evolving business and AI-driven transformation. This role will be responsible for unifying performance, development, and rewards practices to support a cohesive, agile, and forward-looking people strategy. The role requires an experienced, strategic HR leader who can connect enterprise-wide initiatives to individual growth and business performance outcomes.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role reporting to the Head of People and based in Pittsburgh, PA. You’ll serve as a key advisor to our function heads and shape the employee experience across the talent management lifecycle.

You will...

Lead the Talent Management & Rewards pillar — integrating strategy across performance, development, and rewards.
Manage and develop a high-performing team that includes many of our internal talent density-driving teams like Talent Partners, Total Rewards, and the Talent Programs PMO
Define and evolve a cohesive talent philosophy that scales with our business and stays grounded in our principles.
Partner with leaders across Duolingo to design talent systems that are rigorous, intuitive, and drive measurable results.
Build with data. Continuously measure impact, tell clear stories, and iterate.
Champion inclusion, transparency, and equitable practices across all talent and rewards programs.
Represent the function in executive forums and company-wide initiatives, while also supporting board-level conversations with strategic insights and materials that showcase the impact of our people programs.

ou have...

15+ years of progressive experience in talent management, total rewards, and org development—ideally in a tech-forward or global environment
A proven track record of leading through change and scaling talent systems in high-growth, dynamic environments.
Experience managing senior leaders across multiple domains and uniting them behind a cohesive strategy.
A builder’s mindset — able to define a vision, ship V1s, and refine through feedback and iteration.
Clear, concise communication skills grounded in data and impact — you know how to "Show, Don’t Tell."
A high bar for excellence — and a reputation for shipping work that’s intuitive, delightful, and polished.
A love of learning and a belief in developing people for the long term.

Exceptional candidates will have...

Experience integrating Total Rewards and Talent Management into a single cohesive strategy.
Experience working in a product-led or design-forward organization.
Familiarity with AI tools and how to use them to automate and improve People processes.
A deep appreciation for Duolingo’s quirky, mission-driven culture — and ideas for how to make it even better.

If you're excited to build the systems and experiences that grow great careers — and want to shape the future of how People work gets done — we’d love to hear from you.

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:

$189,600—$342,000 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

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.

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.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

Original Job 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!

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...

Join Duolingo as our Head of Talent Management & Rewards and help us build, grow, and retain the world-class team that’s changing how the world learns.

You will...

Lead the Talent Management & Rewards pillar — integrating strategy across performance, development, and rewards.
Manage and develop a high-performing team that includes many of our internal talent density-driving teams like Talent Partners, Total Rewards, and the Talent Programs PMO
Define and evolve a cohesive talent philosophy that scales with our business and stays grounded in our principles.
Partner with leaders across Duolingo to design talent systems that are rigorous, intuitive, and drive measurable results.
Build with data. Continuously measure impact, tell clear stories, and iterate.
Champion inclusion, transparency, and equitable practices across all talent and rewards programs.
Represent the function in executive forums and company-wide initiatives, while also supporting board-level conversations with strategic insights and materials that showcase the impact of our people programs.

ou have...

15+ years of progressive experience in talent management, total rewards, and org development—ideally in a tech-forward or global environment
A proven track record of leading through change and scaling talent systems in high-growth, dynamic environments.
Experience managing senior leaders across multiple domains and uniting them behind a cohesive strategy.
A builder’s mindset — able to define a vision, ship V1s, and refine through feedback and iteration.
Clear, concise communication skills grounded in data and impact — you know how to "Show, Don’t Tell."
A high bar for excellence — and a reputation for shipping work that’s intuitive, delightful, and polished.
A love of learning and a belief in developing people for the long term.

Exceptional candidates will have...

Experience integrating Total Rewards and Talent Management into a single cohesive strategy.
Experience working in a product-led or design-forward organization.
Familiarity with AI tools and how to use them to automate and improve People processes.
A deep appreciation for Duolingo’s quirky, mission-driven culture — and ideas for how to make it even better.

If you're excited to build the systems and experiences that grow great careers — and want to shape the future of how People work gets done — we’d love to hear from you.

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

Salary Range:

$189,600—$342,000 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

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