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Duolingo
Actively Hiring
The best new way to learn a language
  • B2C
  • Public Stage
    Publicly traded company
  • Top Investors
    This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
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Director of Payroll

Posted: 1 month ago
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About the job

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.


You will...

  • Champion our Culture: Bring energy, vision, and initiative to help us drive our culture forward by leading a “people first” payroll function.
  • Be the Leader: Lead payroll strategy and operations, ensuring that they result in timely, accurate, and compliant execution of payrolls, filings, reports, and audits.
  • Be the Specialist: Provide experienced guidance to establishing, evaluating, updating, and scaling processes and controls in conjunction with regulatory, business, and/or system updates.
  • Be a Strategic Partner: Collaborate with key partners to ensure the payroll operation serves their needs and vice versa.
  • Be Agile: Develop and execute decision-making and organizational change plans when identifying a need to improve part of the payroll operation.
  • Test Everything: Aim to establish a fail-proof system of controls, guardrails, and reporting to ensure that all payroll processes and integrations are accurate and compliant.
  • Ensure Compliance: Collaborate across the Finance, Accounting, and Legal teams to fulfill all vital compliance, auditing, and reporting requirements.
  • Build Relationships: Foster relationships internally and externally to ensure a diversity of knowledge and resources are considered to develop our payroll operations.
  • Provide ad hoc support to the People Team, as needed.

You have...

  • Payroll and Management Experience. You have knowledge in payroll operations, regulatory requirements, and SOX, and have led and/or grown a payroll team.
  • Public Company Experience. You have been in a payroll management role for a public company that issues various types of equity.
  • Communication Skills. You demonstrate that you can communicate effectively across different groups to reach our goals.
  • Self-Awareness and Integrity. You demonstrate a strong understanding of the confidentiality and integrity that comes with leading payroll and other employee demographic data.

Requirements...

  • Ability to work in or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
  • Minimum of bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in payroll for a multi-state and global company, including management experience and experience in a public company with equity.
  • Detail-orientation, organizational, and project management skills that ensure that accuracy, efficiency, and compliance are optimized and objectives are created and met.
  • Proficient with Workday and related payroll, HRIS, and financial systems.
  • Experience implementing payroll systems.

Exceptional candidates will have...

  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.
  • Workday Certified Payroll Expert.
  • Experience implementing relevant systems and processes to serve a fast-growing start-up environment.
  • Experience bringing organization to teams and streamlining processes within organizations.
  • Experience working with 3rd Party Managed Payroll Service providers

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.

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

Salary Range: $128,000—$231,600 USD

About the company

Duolingo company logo

Duolingo

Actively Hiring
The best new way to learn a language201-500 Employees
  • B2C
  • Public Stage
    Publicly traded company
  • Top Investors
    This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
  • 5.0
    Highly rated
    Duolingo is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 5.0 out of 5 stars
  • 4.5
    Work / Life Balance
    Employees rate Duolingo 4.5/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
  • 4.9
    Strong Leadership
    Employees rate Duolingo 4.9/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
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Funding

AMOUNT RAISED
$148.3M
FUNDED OVER
7 rounds
Rounds
U
$10,000,000
Unknown - Apr 2020+6

Perks

Healthcare benefits
100% covered health, dental, and vision
401k with match
Paid parental and adoption leave
Competitive compensation
Generous vacation
20 days of paid time off, with two additional weeks off for winter break
Company meals
Lunch prepared daily by our in-house chefs
On-site gym and massages
Commuter benefits
Transportation reimbursement for however you get to work
Professional development
Opportunities to show your value and level up your career
Company events
Monthly events celebrating our team and their amazing work, plus annual international retreat for all employees
Flexible hours
Home buying bonus
First-time home buyer bonus (in Pittsburgh)

Founders

Severin Hacker
Founder • 3 years
Pittsburgh
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