Senior Creative, Social

New York City, NY (On-site)

$143K/yr – $193K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 14 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end social creative process, turning cultural moments into high-impact posts and experiences with rapid turnaround.

  • Turn trends into ideas for stunts, activations, and partnerships
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback to creators to elevate quality
  • Bridge strategy and hands-on production across platforms

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Turn social moments into ideas that move beyond the feed, including stunts, billboards, products, mascot appearances, partnerships, pop-ups and more
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback to social content creators, helping make their work more ownable, culturally relevant and true to Duolingo
  • Develop and ship ambitious creative on internet timelines, often moving from opportunity to execution within one or two weeks
  • Identify validated trends, memes, fandoms and cultural moments where Duolingo can play a meaningful and unexpected role
  • Create original social-native content yourself when the strongest idea is still a great post, video or meme
  • Help steward and evolve Duolingo’s distinctive voice, visual language, characters and sense of humor across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and emerging platforms
  • Work closely with social, brand marketing, design, production, PR, partnerships and legal to determine what we can make and how quickly we can make it
  • Present ideas clearly and persuasively, from a fast Slack pitch to a fully developed creative deck
  • Raise the creative standard of our daily social work while spotting opportunities with business impact and award-winning potential

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience creating culturally relevant work for social platforms, brands, agencies, media companies or your own audience
  • A portfolio that demonstrates social-native thinking, strong concepts and excellent creative craft
  • Deep fluency in internet culture and an instinct for distinguishing an emerging opportunity from a dying trend
  • A clear point of view on what great social creative looks like now and where it’s going next
  • Strong copywriting skills and a sharp eye for art direction, design and visual storytelling
  • Expertise in short-form video, including concepting, directing and getting the work made
  • Experience turning cultural insights into ideas beyond social posts, such as experiential activations, earned-media stunts, OOH, products or partnerships
  • Experience giving direct, useful creative feedback that helps other creators improve their ideas and execution
  • The ability to operate at both the strategic and hands-on level; you’re not too senior to make things
  • Strong taste, low ego, and the ability to make the work better through collaboration

Preferred

  • Experience working across both in-house and agency or studio environments
  • A genuine obsession with Duolingo’s mission, product and characters

Benefits

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

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Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. We set out to do something altogether different in the learning space. Learning a new language is hard; we believe it should be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. Learning a new language can also be expensive, and because we believe it should be free, we made it so. Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), among others.

Founded in 2011
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1.9K employees (313 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
83% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$143K/yr – $193K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$183.3M
Last Raise
$35M
Series H, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2020
    Series H • $35M
  • Apr 2020
    Series G • $10M
  • Dec 2019
    Series F • $30M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
53.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$342
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.6%
Direct
73.4%
Referral
1.5%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.9K

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