Senior Creative Technologist

About Duolingo

At Duolingo, our mission is to create the best education in the world and make it universally accessible. We combine high-quality design with engaging, immersive, and interactive user experiences to bring fun to learning for our half a billion (and growing!) learners worldwide.

Join our passionate design culture where creativity and craft are celebrated to help make education accessible and delightful for everyone.

About the Role

As a Senior Creative Technologist, you will innovate and elevate the way we use art and animation to make our products more engaging, immersive, and interactive. Collaborating with Design, Animation, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll help shape user-friendly experiences that are both delightful and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

• Build interactive animations for Math & Music courses using Rive, ensuring repeatability and scalability.
• Drive tooling improvements, integrating design tools like Rive and Figma with engineering workflows.
• Optimize pipelines from concept to in-app experiences by automating solutions for digital asset management and improving organizational standards.
• Explore and implement new tools and technologies to enhance interactivity in our products.
• Create plugins, scripts, and documentation to improve animation workflows and tool usability.
• Collaborate with Design Ops to operationalize creative workflows for high-quality execution.
• Promote and train teams on adopting new tools and best practices for animation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in interactive animation for mobile content with attention to performance constraints.
• Proficiency in writing plugins, scripts, and tools.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in creative technology roles like procedural animation or scripting gameplay.
• Strong portfolio showcasing prototyping skills and a demo reel (up to 2 minutes) with work breakdowns.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs and recommendations clearly to diverse stakeholders.
• Willingness to relocate to New York City or Pittsburgh, PA.

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency in Python, C++, or similar scripting languages.
• Background in game design principles, including 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating.
• Familiarity with tools like Rive, Maya, Houdini, or Toonboom Harmony.
• Experience at small game studios, VFX houses, or tech startups.