Duolingo

Marketing & Product Design Sourcer

Recruiting sourcer at Duolingo finding and engaging Product Design and Marketing candidates through outbound outreach, CRM re-engagement, and market mapping.

The role

This sourcing role supports Duolingo's recruiting team, focusing on Product Design and Marketing hires with some flex into Business and G&A. The sourcer works alongside recruiters and hiring managers, shaping search plans and running candidate screens. Equity is offered in addition to base pay.

What you would do

  • Design sourcing plans with recruiters and hiring managers for design and marketing openings
  • Build and maintain candidate pipelines through cold outreach and revisiting existing talent databases
  • Join intake sessions to clarify what each opening needs
  • Run initial screens to check technical fit and pass along guidance to hiring managers
  • Produce market landscape analyses and talent reports sizing the available candidate pool
  • Test outreach variations and refine them to lift response rates
  • Contact large volumes of prospects while keeping messages tailored and engaging

What they asked for

  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least two years of sourcing work, mainly high-volume outbound for marketing, creative, business, and G&A roles
  • Track record building relationships with varied and hard-to-reach talent groups
  • Working knowledge of Google Workspace, Greenhouse, Gem, and SeekOut
  • Strong Boolean search skills and experience running CRM re-engagement searches
  • Good time management, organization, and detail orientation with a problem-solving bent
  • Comfortable in a quick-moving setting and adjusting sourcing tactics as priorities shift

Nice to have

  • Data-informed approach balancing speed with precision in candidate outreach
  • Active long-term user of Duolingo's language app
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