Creative Director, Marketing

Duolingo is on a mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. They are seeking a Senior Creative Director to set the creative vision for their brand building and marketing efforts, leading a team to deliver impactful work across various channels and campaigns.

What you'll do:

• Drive all creative work in the Marketing function, ensuring it consistently ladders up to the company strategy and moves key brand and business metrics
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of creatives; set a high bar for craft, narrative, and taste while creating space for diverse voices and experimentation
• Turn great ideas into end‑to‑end campaign concepts; guide direction across channels (social, video, experiential, partnerships), from insight to execution
• Partner with Brand Marketing to shape briefs, make strategic trade‑offs, and deliver work that’s part of culture and drives brand love and growth
• Partner with Growth Marketing to build a performance marketing creative studio enabling our user acquisition efforts across the globe
• Partner with our Country Marketing team to lead and evolve our global agency roster; ensure scopes, standards, and handoffs produce A+ creative worldwide
• Oversee creative feedback and quality across all project stages; provide clear, timely decisions that keep momentum without sacrificing excellence
• Inspire the organization with industry trends, creative references, and new platforms; codify what’s 'on‑brand' and how we measure brand success

What they're looking for:

• 12+ years in brand/creative roles with significant time leading other creative leaders; proven success shipping integrated campaigns across a wide range of budgets at a high bar
• Demonstrated ability to set vision, influence senior stakeholders, and connect creative decisions to strategy, KPIs, and ROI
• A track record of turning insights into iconic, culture‑driving ideas and guiding multi‑disciplinary teams from concept to launch
• Excellent communication and feedback skills; you simplify complex topics, make fast, sound calls, and bring others along
• Experience managing agencies and external partners across markets, with a reputation for raising quality and speed
• The ability to work from or relocate to New York City or London, UK
• Experience working with IP-led brands
• Global brand experience, including creative leadership across multiple regions and cultures
• A portfolio demonstrating world‑class craft and storytelling— work that drives buzz and earned media attention instead of relying on paid channels for distribution
• Deep familiarity with social media and creator ecosystems, and how to translate cultural signals into breakthrough brand ideas
• Experience establishing clear creative operating mechanisms with marketing, product, and design partners