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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Onsite
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.
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About the role...
Duolingo’s Ads business helps fund our mission by keeping core learning free while raising the bar on ad quality. We’re looking for a Director of Ad Platform Operations to lead the technical and operational backbone of Duolingo Ads across direct-sold and programmatic. This role sits at the intersection of AdOps, technical account management, and programmatic strategy: you will own campaign delivery quality, troubleshoot complex issues with buyers and platforms, shape how we package and scale PMP / PG demand, and build the systems, processes, and team that make our ads business more reliable and more scalable.
You’ll partner closely with Sales, Account Management, Product, Engineering, Data, Finance, buyers, DSPs, SSPs, and external AdOps partners to improve campaign performance and operational excellence. Success in this role means building a high-accountability operating model across GAM architecture, QA, reporting, pacing, partner onboarding, and technical support—while helping Duolingo evolve from a mostly open-auction setup into a more premium, deal-led programmatic business.
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The 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!
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