Senior Performance Marketing Manager

New York City, NY (On-site)

$143K/yr – $193K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 18 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own global performance marketing campaigns from strategy to execution with a focus on mobile user acquisition, growth, and cross-functional alignment.

  • Lead large-scale mobile campaigns, optimizing CPI, retention, and monetization.
  • Partner with agencies and cross-functional teams to scale sustainable growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day execution of global performance marketing campaigns, including setting the creative strategy, with a primary focus on mobile user acquisition and growth.
  • Strategically run and optimize mobile install campaigns across major platforms, such as Google UAC, Meta. Tiktok, and programmatic partners, focusing on high LTV/CAC, efficient spend, and sustainable global growth.
  • Manage and hold accountable Duolingo’s performance marketing agency partners, ensuring alignment on goals, pacing, and quality of execution.
  • Leverage deep, data-driven insights to guide decisions, constantly improving key KPIs like CPI, retention, and monetization metrics.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across Marketing Analytics, Creative, Engineering, and Finance to align efforts and maximize impact.
  • Champion a culture of experimentation, continuously testing new channels, creative approaches, and optimization strategies to unlock new growth opportunities.
  • Develop and present strategic recommendations to marketing leadership, translating campaign performance into actionable insights and proposals.

Requirements

  • Experience running large-scale, global mobile acquisition campaigns.
  • Strong analytical skills, with expertise in mobile attribution and marketing analytics.
  • A successful track record of owning and optimizing large performance marketing budgets with direct, hands-on execution.
  • Deep knowledge of the mobile user acquisition ecosystem, including platforms, attribution technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
  • Exceptional ability to translate data into strategy and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders at all levels.
  • Experience working with and managing agency partners to deliver against performance targets.

Preferred

  • Experience in running performance marketing for a top subscription-based mobile app.
  • Familiarity with incremental measurement methodologies (e.g., geo-lift, incrementality testing, media mix modeling).
  • A passion about Duolingo’s mission to make education universally accessible.

Benefits

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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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