Producer, Gaming Partnerships (Contract) — Southeast Asia at Duolingo

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the very best schooling on this planet and make it universally accessible. But we’ve obtained extra left to do — and that’s the place you are available.

About the Role

We’re collaborating with the world’s largest cellular video games. We’ve shipped collaborations with Genshin Impact, Brawl Stars and Eggy Party, and we’re now pursuing partnerships at an identical scale.

Every one among these begins with the identical query: what ought to the combination seem like? How does Duo exist within the sport?

The proper reply appears to be like completely different in a battle royale than in a MOBA or an MMORPG – and getting it flawed provides us a partnership that reads as an advert relatively than one thing gamers truly wish to personal.

We’re searching for somebody to reply that query with us, after which ship it, on a mission foundation throughout a number of concurrent collaborations. You’ll ideate ideas alongside our Business Development lead, pressure-test them for feasibility and participant enchantment, take them to companion studios, and ship every collaboration via to launch.

You have to be a critical gamer for this. Not “I like games” – we want somebody who has spent actual hours in MOBAs, MMORPGs and battle royales, who understands beauty economies from the within, and who can inform us why one pores and skin offered out whereas one other sat on the shelf. Preferably primarily based in Southeast Asia. Remote-friendly, working companion hours as wanted.

Engagement: This is a 1099 contract function, averaging ~20 hours/week, for a time period of 6 months.

🧠 You will…

Concepting

• Generate and pressure-test in-game integration ideas for every goal title, with the Business Development lead and Design Studio
• Translate Duo’s character into every sport’s personal native techniques
• Bring deep working data of every goal sport’s beauty financial system, development and live-ops calendar, and the place a partnership can credibly sit
• Hold the road on style: what reads as genuine to gamers versus what reads as promoting

Delivery

• Deliver every collaboration, from agreed idea via launch to post-campaign readout
• Build and maintain the grasp timeline throughout Duolingo and companion groups, figuring out the vital path – often the companion’s sport construct – and managing exhausting towards it
• Support the cross-functional workstream on a deliverable foundation: Business Development, Design Studio, Marketing and many others.
• Build the playbook, so the second collaboration takes half the hassle of the primary

✅ You have…

• Extensive private expertise throughout MOBAs, MMORPGs, battle royales at a degree of funding that gave you real fluency in how these video games work.
• Deep, sensible understanding of beauty economies: gacha and loot containers, battle passes, rarity tiers, skins, emotes, and what drives gamers to spend or grind
• Able to carry a reputable, particular dialog with a sport producer about their very own sport
• Instinct for aggressive integrity – what may be added to a ranked sport with out gamers objecting, and what cannot

Delivery functionality

• 5+ years in mission or programme administration, ideally partnerships, built-in campaigns or sport manufacturing
• Demonstrated expertise transport one thing complicated with an exterior companion towards a hard and fast public launch date
• Excellent written communication and stakeholder administration – a lot of this job is chasing individuals at different firms with out changing into somebody they keep away from
• Highly organised and self-directed, comfy working with no established playbook
• Fluency in Mandarin and English required; a number of goal companions are Chinese-owned studios.

Strong plus

• Game growth or manufacturing expertise — you’ve got been on the opposite aspect of the desk and know what you are asking a studio to construct
• Live-ops or seasonal content material supply background
• Experience at or with a cellular sport writer

About Duolingo

Duolingo is the most well-liked language-learning software on this planet, with over 500 million customers and over half a billion workouts accomplished every day. Beyond our core studying product, we additionally provide English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new topics into the Duolingo app, the place individuals can develop their Math and Music abilities.

We are obsessed with educating our customers, making fact-based choices, and discovering modern options to complicated issues. We provide significant work, limitless studying alternatives, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion extra!

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