Events and Travel Manager

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we've got more left to do - and that's where you come in!
Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test .
We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!
We offer a number of internal programs to connect our employees ("Duos") with both Duolingo's mission and language learners, and we are looking for an Events and Travel Manager to implement a new international travel program for them! The ideal candidate is one who understands Duolingo's culture and can tailor events that amplify and reinforce it to Duos.
You Will...

• Implement travel logistics and event planning for the programs you own, including our new international travel program for Duolingo employees.
• Partner with teams across functions to build culture programs, including our Design team to develop swag and our UXR team to develop programming.
• Ensure that all programming + logistics meets Duolingo's high quality standards and guidelines.
• Handle feedback surveys for your programs and compile + communicate findings to the entire company.
• Implement employee-facing communications and documentation for your programs.
• Handle budgeting, invoicing, and vendors for your programs.
• Support other culture-related programs at Duolingo as needed.

You Have...

• Expertise in how to coordinate and run an international travel program.
• Outstanding attention to detail, especially as it relates to building event plans and handling travel logistics.
• Strong cultural competency skills and the ability to collaborate with people of varying backgrounds and identities, both with coworkers across departments and externally.
• Experience processing diverse feedback from many collaborators (e.g. event attendees, vendors, and executive leadership), and implementing said feedback to improve future programming.
• Resilience to navigate conflicting priorities, constant change, high stress situations, balancing multiple events at once, and critical feedback.
• Tech-savviness - you like to learn and work with technology.
• True enjoyment from connecting others and building a strong company culture!

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in hospitality, public relations, communications or related field.
• Experience leading travel programs between the United States and international destinations.
• Experience handling budgets, multiple vendor contracts, and relationships.

Exceptional Candidates Will Have...

• Experience planning trips to Mexico, Japan, Germany, and/or France.
• Proficiency in various event and travel logistics software.
• A personal passion for international travel.
• An impressive Duolingo streak and/or experience learning another language!

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.
Because Duolingo intends to require all employees to return to work from an office, all employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remain employed unless they have an exemption to vaccination pursuant to a required reasonable accommodation. This is so that our employees feel safe in the office.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here .