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$196,000 – $294,000
Listed on Duolingo’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead the technical operations and strategic direction of Duolingo's advertising platform, managing the infrastructure, processes, and teams that support both direct-sold and programmatic ad delivery. This role suits experienced ad operations leaders ready to scale a publisher's programmatic business from open-auction to premium, deal-focused models while maintaining operational excellence.
Our summary, not Duolingo’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years in digital advertising, AdOps, or technical advertising solutions
- Deep hands-on expertise in Google Ad Manager, trafficking, QA, troubleshooting, pacing, and campaign delivery across direct and programmatic channels
- Experience working directly with buyers, DSPs, SSPs, or publisher-side programmatic teams to resolve technical campaign issues
- Proven ability to build or scale operational systems including SLA-based workflows, escalation paths, and QA processes
- Cross-functional partnership experience with Sales, Account Management, Product, Engineering, and Data teams
Nice to have
- Experience scaling a premium publisher or consumer app from open-auction programmatic toward deal-led PMP/PG models
- Knowledge of video and mobile app ad products including viewability, click tracking, and creative QA
- Experience managing globally distributed operations support or external vendor partners