Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages

Duolingo · Pittsburgh, PAsenior

In short

▸Diseñador de aprendizaje senior especializado en idiomas indios, enfocado en el hindi.
▸Diseña currículos y contenido educativo usando inteligencia artificial con intervención humana, asegurando calidad y relevancia cultural.
▸Requiere residencia en Pittsburgh, PA, y experiencia profunda en enseñanza del hindi y cultura india.

Proficiency in English is required.

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What they ask for

✓Experto en enseñanza de hindi como lengua extranjera.
✓Experiencia comprobada en diseño de currículos de hindi.
✓Conocimiento profundo de la cultura y diversidad lingüística de la India.
✓Capacidad para trabajar con flujos de IA con intervención humana (human-in-the-loop).
✓Experiencia colaborando con equipos de producto, ingeniería y diseño.
✓Capacidad para reclutar y gestionar educadores y revisores freelance.

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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 are looking for a senior language educator and curriculum designer with linguistics training, deep expertise in Hindi, and strong knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity in India and the whole South Asian region. You will help shape Duolingo’s learning experiences for Indian languages by using your pedagogical expertise, cultural insight, and human-in-the-loop AI workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and design partners to ship delightful, mobile-first learning that reflects the linguistic and cultural richness of Indian languages and advances Duolingo’s mission at scale. This role will help shape strategy and execution for new and existing Indian language courses. This role must be based in Pittsburgh, PA. No accommodations for remote or other locations will be provided. 🧠 You will... • Lead curriculum and learning design for one or more South Asian languages (starting with Hindi), balancing delight, cultural relevance, and measurable learning impact. • Leverage human-in-the-loop AI workflows and prompt engineering to generate and refine high-quality content efficiently while maintaining Duolingo’s quality bar. • Establish and maintain content quality systems (guidelines, rubrics, review workflows) to ensure linguistic accuracy, difficulty calibration, consistency, and brand voice across features and languages. • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, and Scaling Operations to plan roadmaps, ship experiments, and build scalable content generation processes. • Contribute to strategy for teaching Hindi and other South Asian languages, informed by an understanding of the wider regional linguistic and cultural context. • Help identify, recruit, onboard, and manage freelance educators, linguists, cultural consultants, and language reviewers representing relevant regions and communities. ✅ You have... • Hindi teaching curriculum expertise. You have deep proficiency in Hindi and substantial experience teaching it as an additional language. You understand its grammar, pronunciation, writing system, registers, variation, and common learner challenges. You have experience designing Hindi curricula. • India-centered cultural and regional expertise. Your cultural expertise is deepest in India, and you understand the broader South Asian sociolinguistic and sociopolitical context. You can navigate questions of language and identity, script, register, standardization, multilingualism, regional variation, and cross-border language communities with nuance. • Knowledge and curiosity about India’s broader linguistic landscape. You are familiar with Hindi’s place within the Indo-Aryan language family, including its relationship with Urdu and points of comparison with languages such as Punjabi and Bengali. You’re eager and able to deepen your knowledge of other Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages qu

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