Senior Learning Designer, Music

6 Months ago • 5 Years + • Education

Job Summary

Job Description

Duolingo seeks a Senior Learning Designer specializing in music education. Must have 5+ years experience teaching music, piano proficiency, creative curriculum design, and data analysis skills. Experience designing app-based content is a plus.
Must have:
  • Music Education
  • Piano Proficiency
  • Curriculum Design
  • Data Analysis
Good to have:
  • App-Based Content
  • Guitar Proficiency
  • Project Management
Perks:
  • Holistic Well-being
  • Employee Benefits

Job Details

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 world-class music educator who is an expert in teaching piano and music theory through creative and intuitive activities. Our ideal candidate thinks outside the box and is able to teach the fundamentals in a fun and engaging way. You will join our Music team to help us deliver the best education in the world through evidence-based practices. Join Duolingo to feel empowered as an educator, impacting millions of learners.

 

  You will...

  • Design innovative curricula and lesson content for the Duolingo music course
  • Collaborate with team members across different roles to improve the Duolingo music in-app learning experience (e.g., developing new types of lessons and/or exercises)
  • Help interpret qualitative and quantitative data on how learners interact with the course, and leverage data insights for course improvements
  • Help develop and implement efficient processes for scaling the creation of app-based educational content, including the use of AI-generated content
  • If needed, help recruit, train, and supervise freelance course content creators

 

  You have...

  • Music Education Expertise. You have at least 5 years of experience teaching and designing music-related content and curricula. You have deep pedagogical content knowledge in music and you naturally gravitate towards teaching through fun, interactive experiences and musical examples. You excel at breaking down music concepts into smaller parts, and you can design course curricula that effectively scaffold the learning experience for learners at varying levels of competence.
  • Piano Proficiency. You are proficient in playing piano and have experience teaching piano.
  • Flexible Analytical Skills. You can identify the core principles involved in learning any given song or music concept and quickly adapt them to a variety of new and changing lesson formats.
  • Creativity. You think outside the box and have excellent intuitions about how to build content that learners across a diverse set of backgrounds will find engaging and motivating.
  • Strong Communication. You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Operational Focus. You are organized and efficient, and strive to continuously improve your workflow and processes.

 

  Requirements...

  • MA (or equivalent experience) in Music, Music Education, or a related field
  • Ability to work full-time from or relocate to New York, NY

 

  Exceptional candidates will have...

  • Experience designing app-based content and curricula for music
  • Proficiency in playing guitar
  • Experience managing complex projects

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 your recruiter.

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.

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About The Company

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.


Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.


Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.


Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. 


With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. 


Duolingo has raised US $138 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), NewView Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drive Capital, Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss.


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), Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor (2020), Forbes' "Next Billion Dollar Startups" (2019), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2018, 2019), Fortune's "Change the World" list (2019), TIME Magazine's Genius Companies (2018), Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" (2017, 2018, 2020), Inc.'s "Best Places to Work" (2018), Entrepreneur's "Top Company Cultures" (2018).

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