Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
As an AI Product Engineer at Speak, you'll play a pivotal role in developing the future of language learning and creating the most effective path to language fluency. Your primary responsibility will be developing innovative product experiences powered by Language Learning Models (LLMs) and deploying them to millions of users.
Your tasks will span the full stack and beyond, from evaluating models and testing prompts to developing and iterating on various product features such as our conversational onboarding and lesson experiences, grammatical assessment and feedback, and personalized lessons.
We're constantly pushing the boundaries of what LLMs can do to provide an exceptional and unparalleled language learning experience to users in over 30 countries worldwide.
Developing and deploying LLM-powered language learning products across the full stack, as well as enhancing the quality and performance of existing AI-powered features within Speak
Collaborating cross-functionally with other Engineering teams, Applied ML, Product, Design, and Content
Refining our process for building LLM apps, including best practices for prompting, experimentation/evaluation, LLM Ops, measuring quality and performance, etc.
Scaling existing product features to many more users and languages
3-5+ years of experience in full stack/backend, product-focused software engineering
Proficiency in React/Node/Typescript and Python
You have real-world experience developing and deploying LLM apps and a strong understanding, gained through experience, of what works and what doesn't
A keen intuition for improving performance and output quality of LLM systems
Experience with LLM Ops and tools (e.g., vector databases, RAG, prompt ops)
Strong product intuition — the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally about innovative LLM-powered capabilities and product experiences
Ability to work independently and build at a high velocity
San Francisco, CA
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nAs an AI Product Engineer at Speak, you'll play a pivotal role in developing the future of language learning and creating the most effective path to language fluency. Your primary responsibility will be developing innovative product experiences powered by Language Learning Models (LLMs) and deploying them to millions of users.\n\nYour tasks will span the full stack and beyond, from evaluating models and testing prompts to developing and iterating on various product features such as our conversational onboarding and lesson experiences, grammatical assessment and feedback, and personalized lessons.\n\nWe're constantly pushing the boundaries of what LLMs can do to provide an exceptional and unparalleled language learning experience to users in over 30 countries worldwide.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Developing and deploying LLM-powered language learning products across the full stack, as well as enhancing the quality and performance of existing AI-powered features within Speak\n\n - Collaborating cross-functionally with other Engineering teams, Applied ML, Product, Design, and Content\n\n - Refining our process for building LLM apps, including best practices for prompting, experimentation/evaluation, LLM Ops, measuring quality and performance, etc.\n\n - Scaling existing product features to many more users and languages\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 3-5+ years of experience in full stack/backend, product-focused software engineering\n \n - Proficiency in React/Node/Typescript and Python\n\n - You have real-world experience developing and deploying LLM apps and a strong understanding, gained through experience, of what works and what doesn't\n\n - A keen intuition for improving performance and output quality of LLM systems\n\n - Experience with LLM Ops and tools (e.g., vector databases, RAG, prompt ops)\n\n - Strong product intuition — the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally about innovative LLM-powered capabilities and product experiences\n\n - Ability to work independently and build at a high velocity\n\n\n\n\nOFFICE\n\n - San Francisco, CA\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"e78edff4-5135-4c68-932d-e449ee460ea3","title":"Machine Learning Engineer, Voice","department":"Engineering","team":"Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-03-05T19:19:55.365+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e78edff4-5135-4c68-932d-e449ee460ea3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e78edff4-5135-4c68-932d-e449ee460ea3/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
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Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and help develop cutting-edge speech recognition models that help teach language fluency. In this role you will take ownership of the end-to-end modeling pipeline, from training and experimentation to deployment and monitoring. You will also work closely with Product teams to design innovative learning experiences and measure the efficacy of production models as they affect our end users. We are a small, dynamic team where you will contribute as a developer and thought partner on team projects like ASR, assessment, pronunciation, content personalization, and much more. This is an incredibly exciting time to join an ML team designing a personalized learning experience that will revolutionize language learning for millions of learners worldwide — come join us!
Training and deploying ASR models end-to-end, including monitoring, performance tracking, and retraining
Improving the pronunciation model that provides precise feedback, and make it more central to our learning app
Creating metrics to measure ASR performance across tasks and languages
Expanding our ASR systems to new languages and markets
Building and maintaining data infrastructure such as training/evaluation datasets and labeling pipelines
Extensive experience training large models on GPUs and deploying custom deep learning models
Proficiency in Python and common Deep Learning frameworks like PyTorch
Demonstrated experience owning ML pipelines end to end, from POC to production
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex ML concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Sharp product sense and an ability to think broadly and cross-functionally about model quality in the context of user experience
Bonus
Experience with speech or audio
San Francisco, CA
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and help develop cutting-edge speech recognition models that help teach language fluency. In this role you will take ownership of the end-to-end modeling pipeline, from training and experimentation to deployment and monitoring. You will also work closely with Product teams to design innovative learning experiences and measure the efficacy of production models as they affect our end users. We are a small, dynamic team where you will contribute as a developer and thought partner on team projects like ASR, assessment, pronunciation, content personalization, and much more. 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Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. 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Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are looking for a senior backend focused but full-stack capable engineer to work on building novel AI-powered product experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience working in close coordination with product, design, and machine learning teams, as well as have a background in building polished consumer applications. This role sits at the center of developing our newest products focused on programmatic, conversationally-driven language learning and will be an instrumental contributor to the future of our company.
Building novel AI-driven product experiences and user interfaces on the web
Full-stack engineering, but focused on creating scalable backend systems.
Debugging complex streaming issues.
Owning the entire development cycle of features, from conception to production
You'll be able to write code very quickly, ship frequently, and make a huge impact on our business by helping us scale our content
5+ years of industry experience working as a Backend Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team
Coach and mentor other engineers
Strong product sense: ability to think broadly/cross-functionally about product experiences
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a senior backend focused but full-stack capable engineer to work on building novel AI-powered product experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience working in close coordination with product, design, and machine learning teams, as well as have a background in building polished consumer applications. This role sits at the center of developing our newest products focused on programmatic, conversationally-driven language learning and will be an instrumental contributor to the future of our company.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Building novel AI-driven product experiences and user interfaces on the web\n\n - Full-stack engineering, but focused on creating scalable backend systems.\n\n - Debugging complex streaming issues.\n\n - Owning the entire development cycle of features, from conception to production\n\n - You'll be able to write code very quickly, ship frequently, and make a huge impact on our business by helping us scale our content\n \n \n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 5+ years of industry experience working as a Backend Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment\n \n - bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users\n\n - Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team\n\n - Coach and mentor other engineers\n\n - Strong product sense: ability to think broadly/cross-functionally about product experiences\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"29647892-bc3f-40fb-bd1b-8f70017073fd","title":"Head of APAC Sales","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-03T03:07:08.791+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/29647892-bc3f-40fb-bd1b-8f70017073fd","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/29647892-bc3f-40fb-bd1b-8f70017073fd/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
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Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak is on a mission to transform language learning for enterprises around the globe. With a rapidly expanding B2B segment (Speak for Business), we are looking for a Head of APAC Sales to drive exponential growth in the company’s most dynamic region (based on existing B2B accounts as well as strong B2C brand foundations). This role will lead all sales efforts across South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and future emerging markets, from new-logo acquisition among top-tier enterprises to expansion within our existing customer base, while also managing and mentoring local sales team leaders and members. You will partner closely with Marketing, Product, and CSM teams to ensure that Speak for Business resonates through the region.
Set & Execute Regional Sales Strategy:
Own the overall APAC go-to-market plan, aligning with global leadership to define regional priorities, revenue targets, and resource needs
Lead High-Performing Sales Teams:
Manage and mentor local Sales team members (currently in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan) - directly manage Account Executives and SDR team leader
Build upon a culture of accountability, clear communication, and high-velocity execution
Drive New Logo Wins & Account Expansion:
Engage top enterprise prospects in key verticals, forging relationships with C-level stakeholders and decision-makers
Partner with the CSM & Partner Operations teams to identify and pursue upsell/cross-sell opportunities, ensuring high renewal rates and long-term customer success
Own Outbound & Inbound Sales Processes:
Build robust outbound motion to penetrate target accounts, fostering a “fearless” approach to lead generation, leading the SDR team and partnering closely with our Marketing team
Refine inbound qualification and closing strategies to achieve near 100% conversion on inbound leads
Collaborate Cross-Functionally:
Provide market-specific feedback to the Product, Engineering, and Content Teams, influencing roadmap priorities
Partner with Global Finance/Operations Teams for accurate forecasting and quota-setting
10+ years of B2B Sales Experience, with 4+ years in leadership roles overseeing APAC or multi-country teams
Proven Track Record in meeting/exceeding ARR targets in enterprise software, SaaS, L&D, or related tech sectors
Team Builder & Coach: You’ve built distributed, multicultural sales teams from the ground up, not just inherited them, and you’re skilled at hiring, developing, and motivating people across markets
Hands-On Coach: You coach sellers directly on live deals, hold the line on accountability with your AEs, and can point to win rates that moved because of it
Executive Presence: You carry credibility in the room with senior external stakeholders, and you’ve personally opened and closed deals at the top of the enterprise market
Playbook Builder: You’ve built sales playbooks and processes from scratch, covering prospecting through closing, renewals, and expansion
Commercial Partner: You’ve worked with Product and Finance to shape pricing, selling strategies, and segmentation, not just executed what was handed to you
Customer-Focused Communicator: Adept at building senior-level relationships and navigating complex enterprise buying cycles
Cross-Cultural Competence: You understand how selling actually works across APAC markets at different stages of growth, including local sales etiquette and customs
High Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and eager to create solutions where they don’t yet exist
Fluency in business English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level should not be a blocker to get things done
Complete coverage and experience across our existing markets (Korea, Japan, Taiwan)
A multilingual or multicultural background, having lived or worked in more than one of our markets
Experience selling to HR teams and leaders, especially in language learning or education category
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak is on a mission to transform language learning for enterprises around the globe. With a rapidly expanding B2B segment (Speak for Business), we are looking for a Head of APAC Sales to drive exponential growth in the company’s most dynamic region (based on existing B2B accounts as well as strong B2C brand foundations). This role will lead all sales efforts across South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and future emerging markets, from new-logo acquisition among top-tier enterprises to expansion within our existing customer base, while also managing and mentoring local sales team leaders and members. You will partner closely with Marketing, Product, and CSM teams to ensure that Speak for Business resonates through the region.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\nSet & Execute Regional Sales Strategy:\n\n - Own the overall APAC go-to-market plan, aligning with global leadership to define regional priorities, revenue targets, and resource needs\n\nLead High-Performing Sales Teams:\n\n - Manage and mentor local Sales team members (currently in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan) - directly manage Account Executives and SDR team leader\n\n - Build upon a culture of accountability, clear communication, and high-velocity execution\n\nDrive New Logo Wins & Account Expansion:\n\n - Engage top enterprise prospects in key verticals, forging relationships with C-level stakeholders and decision-makers\n\n - Partner with the CSM & Partner Operations teams to identify and pursue upsell/cross-sell opportunities, ensuring high renewal rates and long-term customer success\n\nOwn Outbound & Inbound Sales Processes:\n\n - Build robust outbound motion to penetrate target accounts, fostering a “fearless” approach to lead generation, leading the SDR team and partnering closely with our Marketing team\n\n - Refine inbound qualification and closing strategies to achieve near 100% conversion on inbound leads\n\nCollaborate Cross-Functionally:\n\n - Provide market-specific feedback to the Product, Engineering, and Content Teams, influencing roadmap priorities\n\n - Partner with Global Finance/Operations Teams for accurate forecasting and quota-setting\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 10+ years of B2B Sales Experience, with 4+ years in leadership roles overseeing APAC or multi-country teams\n\n - Proven Track Record in meeting/exceeding ARR targets in enterprise software, SaaS, L&D, or related tech sectors\n\n - Team Builder & Coach: You’ve built distributed, multicultural sales teams from the ground up, not just inherited them, and you’re skilled at hiring, developing, and motivating people across markets\n\n - Hands-On Coach: You coach sellers directly on live deals, hold the line on accountability with your AEs, and can point to win rates that moved because of it\n\n - Executive Presence: You carry credibility in the room with senior external stakeholders, and you’ve personally opened and closed deals at the top of the enterprise market\n\n - Playbook Builder: You’ve built sales playbooks and processes from scratch, covering prospecting through closing, renewals, and expansion\n\n - Commercial Partner: You’ve worked with Product and Finance to shape pricing, selling strategies, and segmentation, not just executed what was handed to you\n\n - Customer-Focused Communicator: Adept at building senior-level relationships and navigating complex enterprise buying cycles\n\n - Cross-Cultural Competence: You understand how selling actually works across APAC markets at different stages of growth, including local sales etiquette and customs\n\n - High Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and eager to create solutions where they don’t yet exist\n\n - Fluency in business English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level should not be a blocker to get things done\n\n\n\n\nWHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - Complete coverage and experience across our existing markets (Korea, Japan, Taiwan)\n\n - A multilingual or multicultural background, having lived or worked in more than one of our markets\n\n - Experience selling to HR teams and leaders, especially in language learning or education category\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"71c1242a-721f-42ba-886f-57656def633a","title":"Bilingual Actor - French - English","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-07-19T15:28:26.796+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/71c1242a-721f-42ba-886f-57656def633a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/71c1242a-721f-42ba-886f-57656def633a/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.
Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Read scripts from the teleprompter in both French and English to teach French to English speakers.
Portray a professional in a different industry other than education who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe)
Example Video:
[Requirements]
Native proficiency in both French and English
A neutral French accent
Ability to read and act out scripts that teach French to speakers of English
We have a strong preference for native French speakers and/or heritage French speakers
Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism
Bright and positive vibes
Ability to coordinate and take directions
Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation
*Those who learned French in high school or college will not qualify
[Preferred]
Experience working with a teleprompter
Experience in teaching a second language
Acting experience
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT ARE WE CASTING FOR?\n\nWe are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.\n\nScripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.\n\nMore details here https://www.notion.so/622ace7afdee43d5be95606aa8d3fc95?pvs=21\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Read scripts from the teleprompter in both French and English to teach French to English speakers.\n\n - Portray a professional in a different industry other than education who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe)\n\n - Example Video:\n \n - https://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx\n \n - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5A8Q16jeoU\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n[Requirements]\n\n - Native proficiency in both French and English\n\n - A neutral French accent\n\n - Ability to read and act out scripts that teach French to speakers of English\n\n - We have a strong preference for native French speakers and/or heritage French speakers\n\n - Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism\n\n - Bright and positive vibes\n\n - Ability to coordinate and take directions\n\n - Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation\n\n*Those who learned French in high school or college will not qualify\n\n[Preferred]\n\n - Experience working with a teleprompter\n\n - Experience in teaching a second language\n\n - Acting experience\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"ec0e325c-53fc-46f0-b75a-dd0a64d77a06","title":"Bilingual Actor - Chinese - English","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-07-19T15:45:39.374+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ec0e325c-53fc-46f0-b75a-dd0a64d77a06","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ec0e325c-53fc-46f0-b75a-dd0a64d77a06/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive. Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Chinese teachers will act out bilingual scripts that teach English to speakers of Mandarin.
Notes:
Actors for this role must be bilingual in Mandarin and English.
Rather than a school-teacher, you will portray a professional perhaps in a different industry other than education, who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe).
We seek actors who have achieved and can successfully and consistently demonstrate native-like proficiency and accent in both Chinese and English, whether they are a native Mandarin speaker, a heritage Chinese speaker, or speak Chinese as a second language. Those who learned Mandarin in high school or college will not qualify.
We want the Mandarin to be delivered in a neutral Mandarin accent that appeals to global Mandarin speakers.
For native Mandarin speakers, having an accent in English to a certain degree is ok, as long as your delivery of English lines is very clear, fluent, and easily comprehensible by English speakers.
Example Video:
https://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5A8Q16jeoU
請務必上傳您自錄的試鏡帶。若無上傳，您提交的資料與申請將不被考慮。
请务必上传您自录的试镜带。若无上传，您提交的资料与申请将不被考虑。
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT ARE WE CASTING FOR?\n\n\n\nWe are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive. Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.\n\nChinese teachers will act out bilingual scripts that teach English to speakers of Mandarin.\n\nNotes:\n\n - Actors for this role must be bilingual in Mandarin and English.\n\n - Rather than a school-teacher, you will portray a professional perhaps in a different industry other than education, who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe).\n\n - We seek actors who have achieved and can successfully and consistently demonstrate native-like proficiency and accent in both Chinese and English, whether they are a native Mandarin speaker, a heritage Chinese speaker, or speak Chinese as a second language. Those who learned Mandarin in high school or college will not qualify.\n\n - We want the Mandarin to be delivered in a neutral Mandarin accent that appeals to global Mandarin speakers.\n\n - For native Mandarin speakers, having an accent in English to a certain degree is ok, as long as your delivery of English lines is very clear, fluent, and easily comprehensible by English speakers.\n\nExample Video:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5A8Q16jeoU\n\n請務必上傳您自錄的試鏡帶。若無上傳，您提交的資料與申請將不被考慮。\n\n\n请务必上传您自录的试镜带。若无上传，您提交的资料与申请将不被考虑。\n\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"4debae4e-a4d1-43e1-86e6-dfac0f11f780","title":"Bilingual Actor - Spanish - English ","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-07-19T15:46:52.458+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/4debae4e-a4d1-43e1-86e6-dfac0f11f780","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/4debae4e-a4d1-43e1-86e6-dfac0f11f780/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive. Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Bilingual Spanish teachers will act out scripts that teach Spanish to speakers of English.
Notes:
Actors for this role must be bilingual in Spanish and English.
Rather than a school-teacher, you will portray a professional perhaps in a different industry other than education, who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe).
We have a strong preference for native Spanish speakers and/or heritage Spanish speakers. Those who learned Spanish in high school or college will not qualify.
We want the Spanish to be delivered in a neutral Latin American Spanish accent.
For native Spanish speakers, having an accent in English to a certain degree is ok, as long as your delivery of English lines is very clear, fluent, and easily comprehensible by English speakers.
Example Video:
https://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive. Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.\n\nBilingual Spanish teachers will act out scripts that teach Spanish to speakers of English.\n\n\n\nNotes:\n\n - Actors for this role must be bilingual in Spanish and English.\n\n - Rather than a school-teacher, you will portray a professional perhaps in a different industry other than education, who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe).\n\n - We have a strong preference for native Spanish speakers and/or heritage Spanish speakers. Those who learned Spanish in high school or college will not qualify.\n\n - We want the Spanish to be delivered in a neutral Latin American Spanish accent.\n\n - For native Spanish speakers, having an accent in English to a certain degree is ok, as long as your delivery of English lines is very clear, fluent, and easily comprehensible by English speakers.\n\n\n\nExample Video:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"ad176425-d814-4723-a7de-4cbfc13158f1","title":"Bilingual Actor - Japanese - English","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-07-19T21:53:03.542+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ad176425-d814-4723-a7de-4cbfc13158f1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ad176425-d814-4723-a7de-4cbfc13158f1/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive. Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Bilingual Japanese teachers will act out scripts that teach English to speakers of Japanese.
Notes:
Actors for this role must be bilingual in Japanese and English.
Rather than a school-teacher, you will portray a professional perhaps in a different industry other than education, who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe).
We have a strong preference for native Japanese speakers and/or heritage Japanese speakers. Those who learned Japanese in high school or college will not qualify.
We want the Japanese to be delivered in a neutral Japanese accent.
Actors should not have an accent when speaking English.
Example Video:
https://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive. Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.\n\nBilingual Japanese teachers will act out scripts that teach English to speakers of Japanese.\n\n\n\nNotes:\n\n - Actors for this role must be bilingual in Japanese and English.\n\n - Rather than a school-teacher, you will portray a professional perhaps in a different industry other than education, who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe).\n\n - We have a strong preference for native Japanese speakers and/or heritage Japanese speakers. Those who learned Japanese in high school or college will not qualify.\n\n - We want the Japanese to be delivered in a neutral Japanese accent.\n\n - Actors should not have an accent when speaking English.\n\n\n\nExample Video:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"441f4623-e137-4c3f-bc5d-f124a0c229f7","title":"Bilingual Actor - Korean - English","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"PartTime","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-07-25T19:07:24.917+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/441f4623-e137-4c3f-bc5d-f124a0c229f7","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/441f4623-e137-4c3f-bc5d-f124a0c229f7/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch all Example Videos below). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.
Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Read scripts from the teleprompter in both Korean and English to teach English to Korean speakers.
Portray a professional in a different industry other than education who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe)
Example Video:
Native proficiency in both Korean and English
A neutral Seoul accent when speaking Korean
A neutral American accent when speaking English
Ability to read and act out scripts that teach English to speakers of Korean
Native Korean speakers and/or heritage Korean speakers
Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism
Bright and positive vibes
Ability to coordinate and take directions
Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation
*Those who learned English in high school/college will not qualify
[Preferred]
Experience working with a teleprompter
Experience in teaching a second language
Acting experience
A passion for language teaching/learning
Speak offers competitive compensation based on skills and expertise, along with an environment that supports personal growth and concentration.
Contract Duration: project based (paid per project)
Rate: $65-$75/hr *depending on related experience
Working Hours: an average studio session lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day; studio days average about 2 to 3 days per project, not including zoom rehearsals
Work Model: in-person at our LA studio
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch all Example Videos below). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.\n\nScripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Read scripts from the teleprompter in both Korean and English to teach English to Korean speakers.\n\n - Portray a professional in a different industry other than education who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe)\n\n - Example Video:\n \n - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanTTf996Lo\n \n - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5A8Q16jeoU\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Native proficiency in both Korean and English\n\n - A neutral Seoul accent when speaking Korean\n\n - A neutral American accent when speaking English\n\n - Ability to read and act out scripts that teach English to speakers of Korean\n\n - Native Korean speakers and/or heritage Korean speakers\n\n - Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism\n\n - Bright and positive vibes\n\n - Ability to coordinate and take directions\n\n - Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation\n\n*Those who learned English in high school/college will not qualify\n\n[Preferred]\n\n - Experience working with a teleprompter\n\n - Experience in teaching a second language\n\n - Acting experience\n\n - A passion for language teaching/learning\n \n \n\n\nWORKING CONDITIONS\n\nSpeak offers competitive compensation based on skills and expertise, along with an environment that supports personal growth and concentration.\n\n - Contract Duration: project based (paid per project)\n\n - Rate: $65-$75/hr *depending on related experience\n\n - Working Hours: an average studio session lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day; studio days average about 2 to 3 days per project, not including zoom rehearsals\n\n - Work Model: in-person at our LA studio\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"1ebde3ce-b654-4c56-9e8f-2af072370b9f","title":"Bilingual Actor - English - Italian","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-03-11T09:23:04.634+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/1ebde3ce-b654-4c56-9e8f-2af072370b9f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/1ebde3ce-b654-4c56-9e8f-2af072370b9f/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch all Example Videos below). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.
Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Read scripts from the teleprompter in both Italian and English to teach Italian to English speakers.
Portray a professional in a different industry other than education who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe)
Example Video:
[Requirements]
Native proficiency in both Italian and English
A neutral Italian accent
Ability to read and act out scripts that teach Italian to speakers of English
We have a strong preference for native Italian speakers and/or heritage Italian speakers
Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism
Bright and positive vibes
Ability to coordinate and take directions
Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation
*Those who learned Italian in high school or college will not qualify
[Preferred]
Experience working with a teleprompter
Experience in teaching a second language
Acting experience
A passion for language teaching/learning
Speak offers competitive compensation based on skills and expertise, along with an environment that supports personal growth and concentration.
Contract Duration: project based (paid per project)
Rate: $65-$75/hr *depending on related experience
Working Hours: an average studio session lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day; studio days average about 2 to 3 days per project, not including zoom rehearsals
Work Model: in-person at our LA studio
Resume
Audition self-tapes:
Film horizontally two separate self-tapes reading the following scripts:
Upload self-tapes to this DropBox folder
Slate in English at the beginning: name, location, eligibility to work in the States, and any related experience in acting or teaching
Title each self-tape as the following: \"firstname lastname - title of the script\"
Demo reels will not be accepted
Portfolio of related work (teaching, acting)
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch all Example Videos below). In these video lessons, you’ll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.\n\nScripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Read scripts from the teleprompter in both Italian and English to teach Italian to English speakers.\n\n - Portray a professional in a different industry other than education who is excited that their friend has decided to learn a new language (think helpful, friendly vibes rather than a strict teacher vibe)\n\n - Example Video:\n \n - https://youtube.com/shorts/7kqz4Oot6nw?feature=share\n \n - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5A8Q16jeoU\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n[Requirements]\n\n - Native proficiency in both Italian and English\n\n - A neutral Italian accent\n\n - Ability to read and act out scripts that teach Italian to speakers of English\n\n - We have a strong preference for native Italian speakers and/or heritage Italian speakers\n\n - Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism\n\n - Bright and positive vibes\n\n - Ability to coordinate and take directions\n\n - Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation\n\n*Those who learned Italian in high school or college will not qualify\n\n[Preferred]\n\n - Experience working with a teleprompter\n\n - Experience in teaching a second language\n\n - Acting experience\n\n - A passion for language teaching/learning\n\n\n\n\nWORKING CONDITIONS\n\nSpeak offers competitive compensation based on skills and expertise, along with an environment that supports personal growth and concentration.\n\n - Contract Duration: project based (paid per project)\n\n - Rate: $65-$75/hr *depending on related experience\n\n - Working Hours: an average studio session lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day; studio days average about 2 to 3 days per project, not including zoom rehearsals\n\n - Work Model: in-person at our LA studio\n\n\n\n\nDOCUMENTS FOR APPLICATION\n\n 1. Resume\n\n 2. Audition self-tapes:\n \n - Film horizontally two separate self-tapes reading the following scripts:\n \n - [IT Sample Script https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/EN_IT-Audition-Sample-Script--ChrhdmkpnGK378Ml9GYExDveAQ-OhZLHCuFIdb6DHmEVwuHg]\n \n - [UC Sample Script - L2-2 overthecounter] https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Sample-Script-XX_EN_UC_L2-2_overthecounter_VL--CThe47aF7k0_OrsDalg6Y5KfAQ-1IcM5VBqiDCB2u7tOYaGJ\n \n - Upload self-tapes to this DropBox folder https://www.dropbox.com/request/AUMR7PeOQAWR8bbkf93W\n \n - Slate in English at the beginning: name, location, eligibility to work in the States, and any related experience in acting or teaching\n \n - Title each self-tape as the following: \"firstname lastname - title of the script\"\n \n - Demo reels will not be accepted\n\n 3. Portfolio of related work (teaching, acting)\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"d8b45399-e3bc-42d9-8dfe-9b56cc1ba3cd","title":"English-Italian Bilingual Script Supervisor","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Los Angeles","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-05-07T00:53:35.156+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Los Angeles"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d8b45399-e3bc-42d9-8dfe-9b56cc1ba3cd","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d8b45399-e3bc-42d9-8dfe-9b56cc1ba3cd/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are seeking Native Italian and English speakers to support the director and the Italian-English bilingual actor during virtual and in-studio rehearsals and shoots in our LA studio for our app-based video lessons. During shoots, you’ll be seated off-screen and read along the teleprompter to ensure the actor is delivering lines correctly when explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.
Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of the teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language we are teaching.
Read scripts from the teleprompter in both Italian and English to monitor the actor’s reading performance as they teach Italian to English speakers.
Guide the actor and assist the director during script reading rehearsals
Example Video: (from our Spanish video)
https://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx
[Requirements]
Native proficiency in both Italian and English
A neutral Italian accent
Expert level of reading comprehension
We have a strong preference for native Italian speakers and/or heritage Italian speakers
Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism
Bright and positive vibes
Ability to coordinate and take directions
Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation
*Those who learned Italian in high school or college will not qualify
[Preferred]
Experience working with a teleprompter
Experience in teaching a second language
Experience working in a studio
A passion for language teaching/learning
Speak offers competitive compensation based on skills and expertise, along with an environment that supports personal growth and concentration.
Contract Duration: project based (paid per project)
Rate: $35/hr *depending on related experience
Working Hours: an average studio session lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day; studio days average about 2 to 3 days per project, not including zoom rehearsals
Work Model: virtually for Zoom rehearsals, and in-person at our LA studio
Resume
Audition self-tapes:
Slate: name, location, and eligibility to work in the U.S.
Film horizontally and save as one self-tape reading these scripts:
Upload self-tapes to this DropBox folder
Portfolio of related work (teaching, production related work, etc.)
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are seeking Native Italian and English speakers to support the director and the Italian-English bilingual actor during virtual and in-studio rehearsals and shoots in our LA studio for our app-based video lessons. During shoots, you’ll be seated off-screen and read along the teleprompter to ensure the actor is delivering lines correctly when explaining language concepts and phrases for learners. While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.\n\nScripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance. When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of the teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language we are teaching.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Read scripts from the teleprompter in both Italian and English to monitor the actor’s reading performance as they teach Italian to English speakers.\n\n - Guide the actor and assist the director during script reading rehearsals\n\n - Example Video: (from our Spanish video)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/_l9U-4Qly6k?si=wdMPBqj4GVQB3TKx\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n[Requirements]\n\n - Native proficiency in both Italian and English\n\n - A neutral Italian accent\n\n - Expert level of reading comprehension\n\n - We have a strong preference for native Italian speakers and/or heritage Italian speakers\n\n - Strong sense of responsibility and professionalism\n\n - Bright and positive vibes\n\n - Ability to coordinate and take directions\n\n - Live in Los Angeles and have access to transportation\n\n*Those who learned Italian in high school or college will not qualify\n\n[Preferred]\n\n - Experience working with a teleprompter\n\n - Experience in teaching a second language\n\n - Experience working in a studio\n\n - A passion for language teaching/learning\n\n\n\n\nWORKING CONDITIONS\n\nSpeak offers competitive compensation based on skills and expertise, along with an environment that supports personal growth and concentration.\n\n - Contract Duration: project based (paid per project)\n\n - Rate: $35/hr *depending on related experience\n\n - Working Hours: an average studio session lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day; studio days average about 2 to 3 days per project, not including zoom rehearsals\n\n - Work Model: virtually for Zoom rehearsals, and in-person at our LA studio\n\n\n\n\nDOCUMENTS FOR APPLICATION\n\n 1. Resume\n\n 2. Audition self-tapes:\n \n - Slate: name, location, and eligibility to work in the U.S.\n \n - Film horizontally and save as one self-tape reading these scripts:\n \n - [IT Sample Script https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/EN_IT-Audition-Sample-Script--ChrhdmkpnGK378Ml9GYExDveAQ-OhZLHCuFIdb6DHmEVwuHg]\n \n - [UC Sample Script - L2-2 overthecounter] https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Sample-Script-XX_EN_UC_L2-2_overthecounter_VL--CThe47aF7k0_OrsDalg6Y5KfAQ-1IcM5VBqiDCB2u7tOYaGJ\n \n - Upload self-tapes to this DropBox folder https://www.dropbox.com/request/dhmNFDqTvvd52BzTAIUZ\n\n 3. Portfolio of related work (teaching, production related work, etc.)\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"70314fb5-8a0e-44e5-94ff-7d8c2f33ed97","title":"Customer Success Manager - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-22T23:29:10.199+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/70314fb5-8a0e-44e5-94ff-7d8c2f33ed97","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/70314fb5-8a0e-44e5-94ff-7d8c2f33ed97/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak is looking for a new Customer Success Manager to join the team at an exciting phase. As a CSM on the Speak for Business (S4B) team in Korea, you'll own a portfolio of direct business customers and be the person they trust to make their English learning program actually work. Korea is Speak's largest and most mature B2B market, and our customers include some of the country's best-known companies. Your job will be to make sure their learners show up, make progress, and renew.
This is a hands-on IC role on a small, fast-moving team. You'll run onboarding, drive learner engagement, deliver business reviews, and own renewals across your book, working closely with Sales, Marketing, and Product. You'll inherit playbooks that already work and get real room to grow and develop - into strategic accounts, and toward senior scope as the team scales.
Own a portfolio of direct B2B accounts, driving renewal, retention, and learner engagement across your book
Onboard new customers and their admins - get programs launched fast and get learners active in the first weeks
Monitor usage data proactively, spot at-risk accounts and low-engagement learner cohorts before they become problems, and run targeted interventions
Deliver clear, data-backed business reviews that show customers the ROI of their program and what to do next
Partner with Marketing on engagement campaigns and challenges that lift activation and weekly active use
Spot expansion signals (new teams, new use cases, more seats, etc.) and partner with Sales to pursue them
Be the customer's voice internally: summarize product gaps and recurring pain clearly for Product and Engineering
Keep your accounts, renewals, and activity clean in HubSpot so the whole team can forecast reliably
3+ years in Customer Success or Account Management in B2B SaaS, with your own book of business and results you can speak to on retention and engagement
Native or near-native fluency in Korean and business proficiency in English - daily collaboration with Speak's global team should not be a blocker to getting things done
Comfort with data: you can pull usage numbers, spot the story in them, and turn that into a recommendation a customer will act on
Strong customer communication: you can run a QBR with a corporate stakeholder and stay composed when a customer is unhappy
Reliable execution across many accounts at once, with the judgment to know what to escalate and what to solve yourself
A builder's instinct: you improve the process you're handed instead of just working around it
Experience in EdTech, HR tech, or the Korean corporate training (기업교육) landscape
Familiarity with CRM and customer success platforms (HubSpot, etc.)
Experience at a fast-growth startup or early-stage team
Cross-functional experience with Sales, Marketing, and Product
You've learned a language yourself and know what makes it hard to stick with
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak is looking for a new Customer Success Manager to join the team at an exciting phase. As a CSM on the Speak for Business (S4B) team in Korea, you'll own a portfolio of direct business customers and be the person they trust to make their English learning program actually work. Korea is Speak's largest and most mature B2B market, and our customers include some of the country's best-known companies. Your job will be to make sure their learners show up, make progress, and renew.\n\nThis is a hands-on IC role on a small, fast-moving team. You'll run onboarding, drive learner engagement, deliver business reviews, and own renewals across your book, working closely with Sales, Marketing, and Product. You'll inherit playbooks that already work and get real room to grow and develop - into strategic accounts, and toward senior scope as the team scales.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own a portfolio of direct B2B accounts, driving renewal, retention, and learner engagement across your book\n\n - Onboard new customers and their admins - get programs launched fast and get learners active in the first weeks\n\n - Monitor usage data proactively, spot at-risk accounts and low-engagement learner cohorts before they become problems, and run targeted interventions\n\n - Deliver clear, data-backed business reviews that show customers the ROI of their program and what to do next\n\n - Partner with Marketing on engagement campaigns and challenges that lift activation and weekly active use\n\n - Spot expansion signals (new teams, new use cases, more seats, etc.) and partner with Sales to pursue them\n\n - Be the customer's voice internally: summarize product gaps and recurring pain clearly for Product and Engineering\n\n - Keep your accounts, renewals, and activity clean in HubSpot so the whole team can forecast reliably\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 3+ years in Customer Success or Account Management in B2B SaaS, with your own book of business and results you can speak to on retention and engagement\n\n - Native or near-native fluency in Korean and business proficiency in English - daily collaboration with Speak's global team should not be a blocker to getting things done\n\n - Comfort with data: you can pull usage numbers, spot the story in them, and turn that into a recommendation a customer will act on\n\n - Strong customer communication: you can run a QBR with a corporate stakeholder and stay composed when a customer is unhappy\n\n - Reliable execution across many accounts at once, with the judgment to know what to escalate and what to solve yourself\n\n - A builder's instinct: you improve the process you're handed instead of just working around it\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience in EdTech, HR tech, or the Korean corporate training (기업교육) landscape\n\n - Familiarity with CRM and customer success platforms (HubSpot, etc.)\n\n - Experience at a fast-growth startup or early-stage team\n\n - Cross-functional experience with Sales, Marketing, and Product\n\n - You've learned a language yourself and know what makes it hard to stick with\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"a7d3ca23-0b1b-4529-aa48-b69099ac6426","title":"Sales Development Representative - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-01T06:25:23.236+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a7d3ca23-0b1b-4529-aa48-b69099ac6426","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a7d3ca23-0b1b-4529-aa48-b69099ac6426/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the SDRs we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page.
We’re looking for a high-energy Sales Development Representative (SDR) to qualify inbound interest, run thoughtful outbound campaigns, and partner with Account Executives to build pipeline. You’ll be the first touch for many prospects—diagnosing needs, shaping demand, and progressing opportunities to build pipeline and performance across our team.
Qualify inbound leads from web forms, events, and referrals; strong discovery skills to confirm fit, urgency, and buying roles
Design and execute outbound campaigns (email, phone, social, video) for target accounts and personas; personalize at scale using insights, triggers, and industry POVs
Generate SQLs and book meetings for AE partners; build clear handoffs (mutual agenda, notes, next steps) to maximize meeting kept and conversion to pipeline
Maintain precise CRM hygiene (stages, next steps, contacts, dispositions) and forecast your weekly outputs with accuracy
Continuously test & learn—A/B subject lines, sequences, talk tracks, and cadences; share wins with the team
Represent the brand with consultative, value-led conversations that educate and advance the buyer journey
1–3+ years in SDR/BDR, inside sales (closing role), or high-volume customer-facing role (SaaS preferred)
Demonstrated success in both inbound qualification and outbound prospecting
Excellent written and verbal communication; crisp note-taking and call recap discipline
Proficiency with CRM (HubSpot), sequencing tools (Lemlist), intent/signals (Exa, Indent), and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Organized, curious, coachable; thrives in goal-driven environments; Looking to grow sales career with deal closing experience
Experience in EdTech or language learning
Understanding of Qualification frameworks, like MEDDPICC, BANT
Interest in growing into a closing role (like Account Executive)
Demonstrated ability to succeed in a changing environment
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\nSpeak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the SDRs we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page https://www.speak.com/ko/b2b.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe’re looking for a high-energy Sales Development Representative (SDR) to qualify inbound interest, run thoughtful outbound campaigns, and partner with Account Executives to build pipeline. You’ll be the first touch for many prospects—diagnosing needs, shaping demand, and progressing opportunities to build pipeline and performance across our team.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO AT SPEAK\n\n - Qualify inbound leads from web forms, events, and referrals; strong discovery skills to confirm fit, urgency, and buying roles\n\n - Design and execute outbound campaigns (email, phone, social, video) for target accounts and personas; personalize at scale using insights, triggers, and industry POVs\n\n - Generate SQLs and book meetings for AE partners; build clear handoffs (mutual agenda, notes, next steps) to maximize meeting kept and conversion to pipeline\n\n - Maintain precise CRM hygiene (stages, next steps, contacts, dispositions) and forecast your weekly outputs with accuracy\n\n - Continuously test & learn—A/B subject lines, sequences, talk tracks, and cadences; share wins with the team\n\n - Represent the brand with consultative, value-led conversations that educate and advance the buyer journey\n\n\n\n\nWE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE\n\n - 1–3+ years in SDR/BDR, inside sales (closing role), or high-volume customer-facing role (SaaS preferred)\n\n - Demonstrated success in both inbound qualification and outbound prospecting\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication; crisp note-taking and call recap discipline\n\n - Proficiency with CRM (HubSpot), sequencing tools (Lemlist), intent/signals (Exa, Indent), and LinkedIn Sales Navigator\n\n - Organized, curious, coachable; thrives in goal-driven environments; Looking to grow sales career with deal closing experience\n\n\n\n\nWHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - Experience in EdTech or language learning\n\n - Understanding of Qualification frameworks, like MEDDPICC, BANT\n\n - Interest in growing into a closing role (like Account Executive)\n\n - Demonstrated ability to succeed in a changing environment\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"ef2e18e0-81be-4d1f-a460-ff90049d969c","title":"Account Executive - Japan","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Tokyo","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-20T04:39:12.467+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Tokyo","addressCountry":"Japan","addressLocality":"Tokyo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ef2e18e0-81be-4d1f-a460-ff90049d969c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ef2e18e0-81be-4d1f-a460-ff90049d969c/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the AE we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page.
We're looking for an Account Executive in Japan to drive new ARR with our B2B customers. You'll own the full cycle — targeting, building relationships with executive decision-makers, and closing complex enterprise deals across the Speak suite. This is a rare chance to accelerate your career in AI, join the founding team of Speak Japan's B2B effort, and partner closely with the dedicated Engineering, Product, Content, and CS teams we've already built for S4B.
This is a full-time, hybrid role based in our Tokyo (Shibuya) office.
Build a territory plan and own a pipeline of enterprise accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently exceed quota
Run disciplined discovery and value-selling with executive buyers to drive new ARR and expansion
Develop account plans that map company priorities, multi-thread at the senior level, and surface expansion paths
Partner cross-functionally with CSMs, SDRs, Marketing, and Product to position Speak and move deals forward
Strengthen executive relationships through in-person meetings and networking
Read market signals, adapt strategy, and contribute to how the sales motion evolves
Communicate fluently in business English with Speak's global team day-to-day
5+ years closing new and upsell business in HR, L&D, or adjacent B2B SaaS, especially selling to companies with 5,000+ FTEs
A consistent track record of generating your own pipeline and hitting net-new targets
Experience managing complex 3–12 month sales cycles end-to-end (outbound, SDR alignment, trials, business cases, proposals, negotiation, upsell)
A clear sales methodology that creates value for customers
Familiarity with modern AI sales tech stack tools
EdTech or language learning sales experience to HR / L&D / Talent buyers
A track record of thriving in fast-changing environments
Proven land-and-expand experience
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\nSpeak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the AE we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page https://www.speak.com/jp/b2b. \n\n\n\nWe're looking for an Account Executive in Japan to drive new ARR with our B2B customers. You'll own the full cycle — targeting, building relationships with executive decision-makers, and closing complex enterprise deals across the Speak suite. This is a rare chance to accelerate your career in AI, join the founding team of Speak Japan's B2B effort, and partner closely with the dedicated Engineering, Product, Content, and CS teams we've already built for S4B.\n\n\n\nThis is a full-time, hybrid role based in our Tokyo (Shibuya) office.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO AT SPEAK:\n\n - Build a territory plan and own a pipeline of enterprise accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently exceed quota\n\n - Run disciplined discovery and value-selling with executive buyers to drive new ARR and expansion\n\n - Develop account plans that map company priorities, multi-thread at the senior level, and surface expansion paths\n\n - Partner cross-functionally with CSMs, SDRs, Marketing, and Product to position Speak and move deals forward\n\n - Strengthen executive relationships through in-person meetings and networking\n\n - Read market signals, adapt strategy, and contribute to how the sales motion evolves\n\n - Communicate fluently in business English with Speak's global team day-to-day\n\n\n\n\nWE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:\n\n - 5+ years closing new and upsell business in HR, L&D, or adjacent B2B SaaS, especially selling to companies with 5,000+ FTEs\n\n - A consistent track record of generating your own pipeline and hitting net-new targets\n\n - Experience managing complex 3–12 month sales cycles end-to-end (outbound, SDR alignment, trials, business cases, proposals, negotiation, upsell)\n\n - A clear sales methodology that creates value for customers\n\n - Familiarity with modern AI sales tech stack tools\n\n\n\n\nWHILE IT'S NOT REQUIRED, IT'S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - EdTech or language learning sales experience to HR / L&D / Talent buyers\n\n - A track record of thriving in fast-changing environments\n\n - Proven land-and-expand experience\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"de6ed95d-d237-4747-8e96-0aa790ec856d","title":"Full-stack Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-10T23:02:00.850+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/de6ed95d-d237-4747-8e96-0aa790ec856d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/de6ed95d-d237-4747-8e96-0aa790ec856d/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for Discovery, the pod that helps motivated learners and small teams discover, try, and buy Speak. You’ll set technical direction across the web acquisition and purchase journey, including public discovery, authentication, checkout, billing, provisioning, and measurement. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript across Next.js/React, Node.js, and Postgres, partnering with engineers in adjacent pods where the experience crosses team boundaries.
You’ll turn business goals and product requirements into clear technical designs, lead execution across multiple engineers and agent-driven contributions, and raise the bar for architecture, reliability, analytics, and rollout. Near-term work includes self-serve Speak for Business onboarding, web payments experimentation, enterprise-ready web journeys, and foundations that let Marketing publish and measure experiments without depending on engineers for every change.
Serving as the hands-on technical lead for Discovery, from problem framing and architecture through implementation, launch, and production monitoring
Designing and building full-stack web journeys that help individuals and small teams find, evaluate, purchase, and start using Speak
Leading cross-repository integrations across authentication, payments, entitlements, analytics, attribution, CRM, and admin experiences
Partnering closely with product, design, analytics, Marketing, Sales, and adjacent engineering pods to define scope, sequence dependencies, and deliver end-to-end outcomes
Setting an enterprise-ready quality bar for privacy and security, payment correctness, observability, performance, and resilient rollouts
Evolving architecture and development patterns incrementally while protecting conversion and revenue across high-traffic global funnels
Helping the pod operate AI-natively by reviewing plans and designs before implementation, creating strong QA and verification loops, and enabling AI-assisted contributors to ship safely
Mentoring engineers and raising the team’s bar for technical judgment, communication, and ownership
6+ years of experience building high-quality, production-scale web applications, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js
A track record as the technical lead for ambiguous, multi-system initiatives, while remaining hands-on in architecture and implementation
Experience designing APIs and backend services, working with relational data, and reasoning clearly about boundaries between systems
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to translate growth or B2B objectives into pragmatic scope, measurable outcomes, and durable technical foundations
Experience building reliable transactional or stateful workflows, with strong instincts around data integrity, idempotency, observability, and safe rollouts
Ability to balance building the right way with shipping quickly, learning from real usage, and improving systems incrementally
Excellent cross-functional communication and a desire to mentor engineers and raise the quality of team decisions
Excitement about AI-assisted development, paired with thoughtful verification and a high production-quality bar
Nice to have:
Deep experience with Next.js and Postgres data modeling
Experience with web payments, subscriptions, billing, invoicing, or entitlements
Familiarity with identity and access, B2B account models, roles, or provisioning
Experience with analytics, attribution, experimentation, CRM, or marketing technology integrations
Experience building internationalized web products or working across consumer and B2B SaaS surfaces
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for Discovery, the pod that helps motivated learners and small teams discover, try, and buy Speak. You’ll set technical direction across the web acquisition and purchase journey, including public discovery, authentication, checkout, billing, provisioning, and measurement. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript across Next.js/React, Node.js, and Postgres, partnering with engineers in adjacent pods where the experience crosses team boundaries.\n\nYou’ll turn business goals and product requirements into clear technical designs, lead execution across multiple engineers and agent-driven contributions, and raise the bar for architecture, reliability, analytics, and rollout. Near-term work includes self-serve Speak for Business onboarding, web payments experimentation, enterprise-ready web journeys, and foundations that let Marketing publish and measure experiments without depending on engineers for every change.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Serving as the hands-on technical lead for Discovery, from problem framing and architecture through implementation, launch, and production monitoring\n\n - Designing and building full-stack web journeys that help individuals and small teams find, evaluate, purchase, and start using Speak\n\n - Leading cross-repository integrations across authentication, payments, entitlements, analytics, attribution, CRM, and admin experiences\n\n - Partnering closely with product, design, analytics, Marketing, Sales, and adjacent engineering pods to define scope, sequence dependencies, and deliver end-to-end outcomes\n\n - Setting an enterprise-ready quality bar for privacy and security, payment correctness, observability, performance, and resilient rollouts\n\n - Evolving architecture and development patterns incrementally while protecting conversion and revenue across high-traffic global funnels\n\n - Helping the pod operate AI-natively by reviewing plans and designs before implementation, creating strong QA and verification loops, and enabling AI-assisted contributors to ship safely\n\n - Mentoring engineers and raising the team’s bar for technical judgment, communication, and ownership\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6+ years of experience building high-quality, production-scale web applications, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js\n\n - A track record as the technical lead for ambiguous, multi-system initiatives, while remaining hands-on in architecture and implementation\n\n - Experience designing APIs and backend services, working with relational data, and reasoning clearly about boundaries between systems\n\n - Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to translate growth or B2B objectives into pragmatic scope, measurable outcomes, and durable technical foundations\n\n - Experience building reliable transactional or stateful workflows, with strong instincts around data integrity, idempotency, observability, and safe rollouts\n\n - Ability to balance building the right way with shipping quickly, learning from real usage, and improving systems incrementally\n\n - Excellent cross-functional communication and a desire to mentor engineers and raise the quality of team decisions\n\n - Excitement about AI-assisted development, paired with thoughtful verification and a high production-quality bar\n\n - Nice to have:\n \n - Deep experience with Next.js and Postgres data modeling\n \n - Experience with web payments, subscriptions, billing, invoicing, or entitlements\n \n - Familiarity with identity and access, B2B account models, roles, or provisioning\n \n - Experience with analytics, attribution, experimentation, CRM, or marketing technology integrations\n \n - Experience building internationalized web products or working across consumer and B2B SaaS surfaces\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"4f74e10f-17d3-4865-ad71-12ca8a1f744f","title":"Account Executive - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T06:00:55.900+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/4f74e10f-17d3-4865-ad71-12ca8a1f744f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/4f74e10f-17d3-4865-ad71-12ca8a1f744f/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the AE we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page.
We're looking for an Account Executive in Korea to drive new ARR with our B2B customers. You'll own the full cycle — targeting, building relationships with executive decision-makers, and closing complex enterprise deals across the Speak suite. This is a rare chance to accelerate your career in AI, build on the foundation our Korea team has already laid, sharpen the playbook, and partner closely with the dedicated Engineering, Product, Content, and CS teams we've already built for S4B.
This is a full-time, hybrid role based in our Seoul (Seongsu) office.
Build a territory plan and own a pipeline of enterprise accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently exceed quota
Run disciplined discovery and value-selling with executive buyers to drive new ARR and expansion
Develop account plans that map company priorities, multi-thread at the senior level, and surface expansion paths
Partner cross-functionally with CSMs, SDRs, Marketing, and Product to position Speak and move deals forward
Strengthen executive relationships through in-person meetings and networking
Read market signals, adapt strategy, and contribute to how the sales motion evolves
Communicate fluently in business English with Speak's global team day-to-day
5+ years closing new and upsell business in HR, L&D, or adjacent B2B SaaS, especially selling to companies with 5,000+ FTEs
A consistent track record of generating your own pipeline and hitting net-new targets
Experience managing complex 3–12 month sales cycles end-to-end (outbound, SDR alignment, trials, business cases, proposals, negotiation, upsell)
A clear sales methodology that creates value for customers
Familiarity with modern AI sales tech stack tools
EdTech or language learning sales experience to HR / L&D / Talent buyers
A track record of thriving in fast-changing environments
Proven land-and-expand experience
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\nSpeak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the AE we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page https://www.speak.com/ko/b2b.\n\n\n\nWe're looking for an Account Executive in Korea to drive new ARR with our B2B customers. You'll own the full cycle — targeting, building relationships with executive decision-makers, and closing complex enterprise deals across the Speak suite. This is a rare chance to accelerate your career in AI, build on the foundation our Korea team has already laid, sharpen the playbook, and partner closely with the dedicated Engineering, Product, Content, and CS teams we've already built for S4B.\n\n\n\nThis is a full-time, hybrid role based in our Seoul (Seongsu) office.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO AT SPEAK:\n\n - Build a territory plan and own a pipeline of enterprise accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently exceed quota\n\n - Run disciplined discovery and value-selling with executive buyers to drive new ARR and expansion\n\n - Develop account plans that map company priorities, multi-thread at the senior level, and surface expansion paths\n\n - Partner cross-functionally with CSMs, SDRs, Marketing, and Product to position Speak and move deals forward\n\n - Strengthen executive relationships through in-person meetings and networking\n\n - Read market signals, adapt strategy, and contribute to how the sales motion evolves\n\n - Communicate fluently in business English with Speak's global team day-to-day\n\n\n\n\nWE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:\n\n - 5+ years closing new and upsell business in HR, L&D, or adjacent B2B SaaS, especially selling to companies with 5,000+ FTEs\n\n - A consistent track record of generating your own pipeline and hitting net-new targets\n\n - Experience managing complex 3–12 month sales cycles end-to-end (outbound, SDR alignment, trials, business cases, proposals, negotiation, upsell)\n\n - A clear sales methodology that creates value for customers\n\n - Familiarity with modern AI sales tech stack tools\n\n\n\n\nWHILE IT'S NOT REQUIRED, IT'S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - EdTech or language learning sales experience to HR / L&D / Talent buyers\n\n - A track record of thriving in fast-changing environments\n\n - Proven land-and-expand experience\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"2f98e46d-a85c-4ad2-bc6c-f4c783b857b0","title":"Product Designer - Consumer","department":"Design","team":"Design","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-13T19:37:04.033+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/2f98e46d-a85c-4ad2-bc6c-f4c783b857b0","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/2f98e46d-a85c-4ad2-bc6c-f4c783b857b0/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We’re a small and mighty team of five that sit at the intersection of craft, research, invention and product thinking. We build consumer experiences used by millions, alongside B2B products that help organizations bring Speak to their teams. The design work is genuinely novel — inventing how someone talks to an AI tutor, what feedback feels like when you're learning out loud, how a roleplay session should land emotionally, and how you measure a true proficiency score.
Our work shapes the future of how people learn with AI and we partner closely with Engineering, Learning Design, Product, and Analytics to do it. We stay close to our users and to how our experiences actually feel by prototyping with AI, testing conversation design and voice interaction, and getting comfortable with ambiguity.
Our team takes craft seriously and has a lot of fun doing it — we developed our design principles in a multi-week offsite and iterate on them on a living board in our office. We take language classes together to ground our work in first principles. We stay close to our learners through team trips to Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, as well as lighter-touch interviews, surveys, betas, and AB tests. We believe in a critique and build culture with high trust, and also get a bit competitive over ping pong. We have something to prove: that learning products can be both deeply effective and beautifully crafted. If you want to do the most interesting design work of your career, let's talk.
As a Product Designer focused on consumer experiences, you’ll design the core moments that help learners build real-world speaking confidence: finding the right path, practicing with AI, getting feedback, staying motivated, and building a lasting learning habit.
Speak is inventing new interaction patterns for language learning — from AI tutoring and voice-first practice to roleplay, proficiency measurement, and personalized curriculum. You’ll work across ambiguous, high-impact product areas where interaction design, learning science, AI behavior, and emotional craft all matter.
Shape strategy and end-to-end product experiences for Speak’s consumer learning surfaces, bringing deep empathy for learners across cultures, motivations, and proficiency levels
Design across key growth moments — onboarding, activation, habit formation, retention, and subscription experiences — while protecting learner trust and long-term learning outcomes
Prototype quickly in AI tools, code, or interactive design tools to make new learning experiences feel real before they are fully built
Partner with Product, Data, Research, and Engineering to define opportunities, evaluate impact, and raise the quality bar for learner-facing product work
Use qualitative and quantitative signals to understand learner behavior, synthesize insights, and make strong product judgments
Invent novel interaction patterns for AI-powered learning that go beyond generic AI templates
Thrive in an ambiguous, fast-moving startup environment where the best answer often has to be discovered through making
The exact product area you will work on will depend on team needs and your strengths, but likely areas include onboarding, activation, personalized learning, speaking practice, subscriptions, and learner motivation. This role is primarily anchored in our consumer experience, with opportunities to collaborate across adjacent surfaces as Speak grows.
6+ years of product design experience. You have experience designing high-quality consumer products.
You stay close to users. You think about real people learning real languages in real contexts. You actively seek out the humans using the product, not just data about them and are able to synthesize valuable insights about them that inform strategy and direction. You seek ways to put your work in front of people, before you feel it’s perfect just to learn something valuable.
Product thinking and structured judgment. You frame the problem before solving it and always know why you’re doing something. You can distill what you’re working on into simple narrative framings and key beats without being lost in the details.
AI-native workflow. You already use AI creatively in your process to unlock speed and quality and are eager to continue learning how to apply it in novel ways.
Taste and craft while moving fast. You can spot a great idea in a sea of okay ones and understand what’s worth investing in building. You do this while moving quickly and know when to stay scrappy vs invest deeply in final polish.
Communication and stakeholder collaboration. You can own a room, build trust, and push back when something isn't right. You bring people into your work along the way knowing that multiple perspectives produce the strongest work.
Experience in language learning, education, or another domain with deep cross-cultural product surface area
A bias toward prototypes to communicate ideas, test assumptions, and make your thinking tangible
A strong portfolio that demonstrates user-centric thinking, high craft, and innovative interaction patterns
Contributions to design systems that scale beyond a single team
A point of view about agentic workflows you'd be excited to share with our team and ability to tinker directly in code
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE DESIGN TEAM\n\nWe’re a small and mighty team of five that sit at the intersection of craft, research, invention and product thinking. We build consumer experiences used by millions, alongside B2B products that help organizations bring Speak to their teams. The design work is genuinely novel — inventing how someone talks to an AI tutor, what feedback feels like when you're learning out loud, how a roleplay session should land emotionally, and how you measure a true proficiency score.\n\nOur work shapes the future of how people learn with AI and we partner closely with Engineering, Learning Design, Product, and Analytics to do it. We stay close to our users and to how our experiences actually feel by prototyping with AI, testing conversation design and voice interaction, and getting comfortable with ambiguity.\n\nOur team takes craft seriously and has a lot of fun doing it — we developed our design principles in a multi-week offsite and iterate on them on a living board in our office. We take language classes together to ground our work in first principles. We stay close to our learners through team trips to Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, as well as lighter-touch interviews, surveys, betas, and AB tests. We believe in a critique and build culture with high trust, and also get a bit competitive over ping pong. We have something to prove: that learning products can be both deeply effective and beautifully crafted. If you want to do the most interesting design work of your career, let's talk.\n\n\n\n\nROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES\n\nAs a Product Designer focused on consumer experiences, you’ll design the core moments that help learners build real-world speaking confidence: finding the right path, practicing with AI, getting feedback, staying motivated, and building a lasting learning habit.\n\nSpeak is inventing new interaction patterns for language learning — from AI tutoring and voice-first practice to roleplay, proficiency measurement, and personalized curriculum. You’ll work across ambiguous, high-impact product areas where interaction design, learning science, AI behavior, and emotional craft all matter.\n\n - Shape strategy and end-to-end product experiences for Speak’s consumer learning surfaces, bringing deep empathy for learners across cultures, motivations, and proficiency levels\n\n - Design across key growth moments — onboarding, activation, habit formation, retention, and subscription experiences — while protecting learner trust and long-term learning outcomes\n\n - Prototype quickly in AI tools, code, or interactive design tools to make new learning experiences feel real before they are fully built\n\n - Partner with Product, Data, Research, and Engineering to define opportunities, evaluate impact, and raise the quality bar for learner-facing product work\n\n - Use qualitative and quantitative signals to understand learner behavior, synthesize insights, and make strong product judgments\n\n - Invent novel interaction patterns for AI-powered learning that go beyond generic AI templates\n\n - Thrive in an ambiguous, fast-moving startup environment where the best answer often has to be discovered through making\n\nThe exact product area you will work on will depend on team needs and your strengths, but likely areas include onboarding, activation, personalized learning, speaking practice, subscriptions, and learner motivation. This role is primarily anchored in our consumer experience, with opportunities to collaborate across adjacent surfaces as Speak grows.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6+ years of product design experience. You have experience designing high-quality consumer products.\n\n - You stay close to users. You think about real people learning real languages in real contexts. You actively seek out the humans using the product, not just data about them and are able to synthesize valuable insights about them that inform strategy and direction. You seek ways to put your work in front of people, before you feel it’s perfect just to learn something valuable.\n\n - Product thinking and structured judgment. You frame the problem before solving it and always know why you’re doing something. You can distill what you’re working on into simple narrative framings and key beats without being lost in the details.\n\n - AI-native workflow. You already use AI creatively in your process to unlock speed and quality and are eager to continue learning how to apply it in novel ways.\n\n - Taste and craft while moving fast. You can spot a great idea in a sea of okay ones and understand what’s worth investing in building. You do this while moving quickly and know when to stay scrappy vs invest deeply in final polish.\n\n - Communication and stakeholder collaboration. You can own a room, build trust, and push back when something isn't right. You bring people into your work along the way knowing that multiple perspectives produce the strongest work.\n\n\nWE ALSO LOVE TO SEE\n\n - Experience in language learning, education, or another domain with deep cross-cultural product surface area\n\n - A bias toward prototypes to communicate ideas, test assumptions, and make your thinking tangible\n\n - A strong portfolio that demonstrates user-centric thinking, high craft, and innovative interaction patterns\n\n - Contributions to design systems that scale beyond a single team\n\n - A point of view about agentic workflows you'd be excited to share with our team and ability to tinker directly in code\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"2a967de8-cbf1-479b-a8e8-d79a64561adc","title":"Senior Field Marketing Specialist - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-03T06:55:28.569+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/2a967de8-cbf1-479b-a8e8-d79a64561adc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/2a967de8-cbf1-479b-a8e8-d79a64561adc/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the marketers we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page.
To support our next phase of enterprise growth, we're hiring a Senior Field Marketing Specialist to own Korea's field marketing function and take full accountability for enterprise pipeline contribution. This is not just an execution or support role — you'll own the annual marketing strategy, the event calendar, the partner ecosystem, and the community and nurture programs that connect marketing directly to revenue, with support from our B2B Marketing lead.
You'll co-own territory plans with Sales, partner closely with our global digital and content team to connect field activities to broader campaigns, and build the systems and programs that turn enterprise engagement into pipeline.
You’ll work closely with the S4B Marketing Lead and cross-functional teams to lead and support key B2B marketing initiatives in South Korea, including:
Planning & Territory Strategy
Build annual and quarterly marketing plans tied to Korea enterprise pipeline and bookings goals, in partnership with Sales
Co-develop territory plans with Sales that drive enterprise customer outcomes
Manage and optimize the demand funnel — ensuring efficient lead flow from marketing activity through to sales progression
Maintain quarterly execution plans reviewed and adjusted based on performance data
Surface local market insights and content requirements to global teams to optimize future programs
Field Marketing & Event Calendar
Own the Korea B2B enterprise event calendar and budget end-to-end — from annual strategy and budget planning through individual event execution and post-event close-out
Develop audience-informed event briefs with clear enterprise objectives, MQL/SQL targets, messaging strategy, and documented learnings after each cycle
Direct vendors, agencies, and speakers — owning every decision while managing execution through others
Own post-event and campaign lead nurturing in HubSpot — building multi-touch workflows that activate enterprise leads immediately and move them through the funnel efficiently, while tracking ROI (ex. CPL, pipeline contribution, etc.)
Partner Marketing & Community Management
Build and manage a strategic enterprise partner ecosystem — HR associations, industry platforms, co-marketing partners, and thought leaders
Activate partner channels for joint enterprise lead generation, co-branded content, and event collaboration
Own community strategy across both prospect-facing and end-user-facing channels for enterprise audiences
Prospect-side: build and manage a community that nurtures enterprise buyers through the consideration stage — roundtables, HR/L&D forums, thought leadership events, and digital communities
End-user side: own the B2B Kakao channel and other engagement touchpoints with a strategy to grow enterprise user engagement and drive retention and upsell
Reporting & Optimization
Deliver regular insights, analysis, and reporting across all programs — event ROI, campaign performance, community metrics, and pipeline contribution
Build and maintain HubSpot dashboards that give Sales and leadership clear visibility into marketing's enterprise pipeline impact
Identify what's working, bring recommendations, and act on them
6+ years of B2B marketing experience with a strong background in field marketing or demand generation, focused on enterprise accounts
Proactiveness; you are always looking for new ideas and ways to improve based on market research, previous event data, experience etc.
Strong CRM (plus if HubSpot) proficiency across workflows, segmentation, nurturing, and reporting, with a strong data-driven mindset
Strong project management skills and high attention to detail across multiple workstreams and cross-functional partners (like Sales)
Strong written and verbal Korean; working English proficiency
Experience managing vendors, agencies, and external partners
Experience in partner or co-marketing programs is a strong plus
Background in EdTech, HRTech, or B2B SaaS is a plus
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\nSpeak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the marketers we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page https://www.speak.com/ko/b2b.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nTo support our next phase of enterprise growth, we're hiring a Senior Field Marketing Specialist to own Korea's field marketing function and take full accountability for enterprise pipeline contribution. This is not just an execution or support role — you'll own the annual marketing strategy, the event calendar, the partner ecosystem, and the community and nurture programs that connect marketing directly to revenue, with support from our B2B Marketing lead.\n\nYou'll co-own territory plans with Sales, partner closely with our global digital and content team to connect field activities to broader campaigns, and build the systems and programs that turn enterprise engagement into pipeline.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\nYou’ll work closely with the S4B Marketing Lead and cross-functional teams to lead and support key B2B marketing initiatives in South Korea, including:\n\nPlanning & Territory Strategy\n\n - Build annual and quarterly marketing plans tied to Korea enterprise pipeline and bookings goals, in partnership with Sales\n\n - Co-develop territory plans with Sales that drive enterprise customer outcomes\n\n - Manage and optimize the demand funnel — ensuring efficient lead flow from marketing activity through to sales progression\n\n - Maintain quarterly execution plans reviewed and adjusted based on performance data\n\n - Surface local market insights and content requirements to global teams to optimize future programs\n\nField Marketing & Event Calendar\n\n - Own the Korea B2B enterprise event calendar and budget end-to-end — from annual strategy and budget planning through individual event execution and post-event close-out\n\n - Develop audience-informed event briefs with clear enterprise objectives, MQL/SQL targets, messaging strategy, and documented learnings after each cycle\n\n - Direct vendors, agencies, and speakers — owning every decision while managing execution through others\n\n - Own post-event and campaign lead nurturing in HubSpot — building multi-touch workflows that activate enterprise leads immediately and move them through the funnel efficiently, while tracking ROI (ex. CPL, pipeline contribution, etc.)\n\nPartner Marketing & Community Management\n\n - Build and manage a strategic enterprise partner ecosystem — HR associations, industry platforms, co-marketing partners, and thought leaders\n\n - Activate partner channels for joint enterprise lead generation, co-branded content, and event collaboration\n\n - Own community strategy across both prospect-facing and end-user-facing channels for enterprise audiences\n\n - Prospect-side: build and manage a community that nurtures enterprise buyers through the consideration stage — roundtables, HR/L&D forums, thought leadership events, and digital communities\n\n - End-user side: own the B2B Kakao channel and other engagement touchpoints with a strategy to grow enterprise user engagement and drive retention and upsell\n\nReporting & Optimization\n\n - Deliver regular insights, analysis, and reporting across all programs — event ROI, campaign performance, community metrics, and pipeline contribution\n\n - Build and maintain HubSpot dashboards that give Sales and leadership clear visibility into marketing's enterprise pipeline impact\n\n - Identify what's working, bring recommendations, and act on them\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6+ years of B2B marketing experience with a strong background in field marketing or demand generation, focused on enterprise accounts\n\n - Proactiveness; you are always looking for new ideas and ways to improve based on market research, previous event data, experience etc.\n\n - Strong CRM (plus if HubSpot) proficiency across workflows, segmentation, nurturing, and reporting, with a strong data-driven mindset\n\n - Strong project management skills and high attention to detail across multiple workstreams and cross-functional partners (like Sales)\n\n - Strong written and verbal Korean; working English proficiency\n\n - Experience managing vendors, agencies, and external partners\n\n - Experience in partner or co-marketing programs is a strong plus\n\n - Background in EdTech, HRTech, or B2B SaaS is a plus\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"17a11bb2-85f9-48c4-92a8-fbc57c3be5bf","title":"Engineering Manager, Infrastructure / Platform","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-10T20:05:38.870+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/17a11bb2-85f9-48c4-92a8-fbc57c3be5bf","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/17a11bb2-85f9-48c4-92a8-fbc57c3be5bf/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
About This Role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform & Infrastructure team at Speak! This is an extraordinary moment to join us: we're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and we're embracing the change.
Your team's mission is to enable every engineering team at Speak to own and operate their own infrastructure, by providing reliable foundations, self-serve tooling, sensible guardrails, and hands-on guidance that let them ship quality features fast while maintaining a state-of-the-art customer experience.
That surface area is broad and consequential: velocity, reliability, and performance across our client apps, web, API, and infrastructure; developer productivity; and security! When Speak is fast and stable for millions of learners, and when our engineers can ship without friction, that's your team's work.
As an EM at Speak, you'll also be a key driver of our agentic engineering transformation, helping your team evolve from \"using AI to code faster\" to designing the systems, environments, and feedback loops that enable agents to do increasingly autonomous, high-quality work. Platform is where that leverage compounds: the tooling, environments, and guardrails your team builds determine how agentic the rest of the org can be. We believe this shift is creating a massive and widening gap between teams that fully embrace it and those that don't, and we're building for the former.
We're looking for EMs who are excited to use coding agents to get close to the metal again, stay deeply in the details of their team's work, and lead by example.
What you'll be doing
Leading and managing a team of engineers while setting strong output and productivity expectations
Contributing technically, both through coaching and leadership as well as directly contributing: e.g. shipping smaller projects, bugfixes, and improving the agent environment using coding agents
Driving your team's agentic engineering transformation: constantly asking what's still being done manually, identifying slowdowns and roadblocks, and actively closing the gap
Setting the pace and driving velocity while articulating and setting a high quality bar
Collaborating closely and effectively with partner functions like Product/Design/many more to execute effectively in the AI era
Proactively pushing for changes to shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems that help the broader engineering org become more agentic
Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture
What we're looking for
8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams
4+ years of direct team management experience
Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background
Deeply technical and building faster than ever with coding agents
High agency but low ego
Strong conviction that 10x engineering output is possible with agentic tools and practices
Proven ability to drive velocity, hold a high quality bar, and give direct performance feedback
Excited about working in-person in San Francisco at least 3-4 days per week
Nice to haves
Background in AI-native products and systems
Track record of driving org-wide developer productivity or tooling initiatives
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\nAbout This Role\nWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform & Infrastructure team at Speak! This is an extraordinary moment to join us: we're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and we're embracing the change https://www.speak.com/blog/agentic-engineering.\n\n\nYour team's mission is to enable every engineering team at Speak to own and operate their own infrastructure, by providing reliable foundations, self-serve tooling, sensible guardrails, and hands-on guidance that let them ship quality features fast while maintaining a state-of-the-art customer experience.\n\n\nThat surface area is broad and consequential: velocity, reliability, and performance across our client apps, web, API, and infrastructure; developer productivity; and security! When Speak is fast and stable for millions of learners, and when our engineers can ship without friction, that's your team's work.\n\n\nAs an EM at Speak, you'll also be a key driver of our agentic engineering transformation, helping your team evolve from \"using AI to code faster\" to designing the systems, environments, and feedback loops that enable agents to do increasingly autonomous, high-quality work. Platform is where that leverage compounds: the tooling, environments, and guardrails your team builds determine how agentic the rest of the org can be. We believe this shift is creating a massive and widening gap between teams that fully embrace it and those that don't, and we're building for the former.\n\n\nWe're looking for EMs who are excited to use coding agents to get close to the metal again, stay deeply in the details of their team's work, and lead by example.\n\nWhat you'll be doing\n\n - Leading and managing a team of engineers while setting strong output and productivity expectations\n\n - Contributing technically, both through coaching and leadership as well as directly contributing: e.g. shipping smaller projects, bugfixes, and improving the agent environment using coding agents\n\n - Driving your team's agentic engineering transformation: constantly asking what's still being done manually, identifying slowdowns and roadblocks, and actively closing the gap\n\n - Setting the pace and driving velocity while articulating and setting a high quality bar\n\n - Collaborating closely and effectively with partner functions like Product/Design/many more to execute effectively in the AI era\n\n - Proactively pushing for changes to shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems that help the broader engineering org become more agentic\n\n - Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture\n \n\nWhat we're looking for\n\n - 8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams\n\n - 4+ years of direct team management experience\n\n - Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background\n\n - Deeply technical and building faster than ever with coding agents\n\n - High agency but low ego\n\n - Strong conviction that 10x engineering output is possible with agentic tools and practices\n\n - Proven ability to drive velocity, hold a high quality bar, and give direct performance feedback\n\n - Excited about working in-person in San Francisco at least 3-4 days per week\n\nNice to haves\n\n - Background in AI-native products and systems\n\n - Track record of driving org-wide developer productivity or tooling initiatives\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"7b9af9f1-0f5a-49e2-aa76-a8322525314f","title":"Product Designer, Design Systems","department":"Design","team":"Design","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-02T19:11:38.314+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/7b9af9f1-0f5a-49e2-aa76-a8322525314f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/7b9af9f1-0f5a-49e2-aa76-a8322525314f/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We’re a small, high-craft team that sits at the intersection of research, invention, and product thinking. We build consumer and B2B experiences used by millions across 150+ markets — and a lot of the work is genuinely novel: inventing how someone talks to an AI tutor, what feedback feels like when you’re learning out loud, and how progress should be measured and celebrated.
We stay close to learners through prototyping, interviews, betas, and experiments. We take craft seriously, iterate fast, and value a high-trust critique-and-build culture. We have something to prove — and we care about doing work that is both useful and genuinely excellent.
We’re hiring a seasoned Designer to improve how design and engineering work together, starting with a world-class, agent-first design system.
By agent-first, we mean the system is structured so humans and AI agents can make the same good decisions: choosing the right components, applying the right patterns, using consistent names, and reviewing UI against shared rules.
This is a systems thinker, high-craft, high-collaboration role. You’ll work closely with dedicated engineers who will be your collaborators in bringing this to life across our product surfaces. You’ll own the design quality, semantics, and product usefulness of the system; engineering will own the technical architecture and implementation, with close collaboration on component APIs, constraints, and adoption.
Scope
You’ll work across iOS, Android, and web.
We’re mobile-first in the near term, with an expectation that components and patterns translate cleanly to web as those surfaces expand.
This role focuses on product surfaces (not the marketing site).
Design ↔ Engineering workflow improvements. Treat the seams between functions as a design problem: shared language, fewer re-made decisions, clearer handoffs, and faster shipping.
Component craft and system coherence. Set the quality bar for components and patterns, and pressure-test them by building and feeling the real thing (ideally prototyping with agents), not only speccing.
The semantic layer that scales. Component naming, usage rules, and decision guidance so the right choice is the easy choice for any designer, engineer, or agent.
Adoption across the design org. Create the standards and workflows that make using the design system the default, not something teams and agents have to seek out.
Documentation + QA workflows. Own usage documentation and quality check workflows that make quality as hands-off and reliable as possible, including AI-assisted checks for consistency, accessibility, and component usage.
In your first months, you’ll likely:
Build and evolve the components we actually need — prioritizing the highest-leverage gaps, pressure-testing them in real product work, and turning repeated decisions into durable patterns.
Establish agent-first systems and workflows — rules + semantics that help humans and agents use the system correctly without depending on tribal knowledge. Set them up to show up in the right moments to create efficiency and consistency across teams.
Set the operating cadence with design and engineering — a contribution/review rhythm that keeps the system coherent and adopted.
6+ years in product design, with real depth in design systems built on tokens, component APIs, and a single source of truth in code (not only a Figma library).
You’ve helped build a design system before. You’ve contributed meaningfully to components/patterns/tokens, governance, adoption, and the messy realities of getting it used.
A systems thinker. You’d rather build the thing ten people use than ship one feature yourself.
Taste you can defend. You can pinpoint what’s off (spacing, motion, interaction states) and explain what’s right for Speak and why.
Clear communication + cross-functional drive. You can write the rule, not just draw the component, and work across teams to drive adoption.
Autonomy and end-to-end ownership. You thrive with little scaffolding and drive from problem → roadmap → shipped → adopted.
Fluency with AI in your craft. You’ve built repeatable ways of working with AI/agents and can explain what changed and why.
Accessibility and scale mindset. You think about how the system holds up as it grows across mobile and web.
Comfort building or changing components in code (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, or web).
Shipped consumer-scale mobile products across many markets/locales.
Built a design system engineers actually used — and that outlasted your time on the team.
A point of view on where design-to-code and agent workflows are heading, and what’s still broken.
Experience in language learning, education, or another domain where cross-cultural nuance shapes the product.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE DESIGN TEAM\n\nWe’re a small, high-craft team that sits at the intersection of research, invention, and product thinking. We build consumer and B2B experiences used by millions across 150+ markets — and a lot of the work is genuinely novel: inventing how someone talks to an AI tutor, what feedback feels like when you’re learning out loud, and how progress should be measured and celebrated.\n\nWe stay close to learners through prototyping, interviews, betas, and experiments. We take craft seriously, iterate fast, and value a high-trust critique-and-build culture. We have something to prove — and we care about doing work that is both useful and genuinely excellent.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe’re hiring a seasoned Designer to improve how design and engineering work together, starting with a world-class, agent-first design system.\n\nBy agent-first, we mean the system is structured so humans and AI agents can make the same good decisions: choosing the right components, applying the right patterns, using consistent names, and reviewing UI against shared rules.\n\nThis is a systems thinker, high-craft, high-collaboration role. You’ll work closely with dedicated engineers who will be your collaborators in bringing this to life across our product surfaces. You’ll own the design quality, semantics, and product usefulness of the system; engineering will own the technical architecture and implementation, with close collaboration on component APIs, constraints, and adoption.\n\nScope\n\n - You’ll work across iOS, Android, and web.\n\n - We’re mobile-first in the near term, with an expectation that components and patterns translate cleanly to web as those surfaces expand.\n\n - This role focuses on product surfaces (not the marketing site).\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL OWN\n\n - Design ↔ Engineering workflow improvements. Treat the seams between functions as a design problem: shared language, fewer re-made decisions, clearer handoffs, and faster shipping.\n\n - Component craft and system coherence. Set the quality bar for components and patterns, and pressure-test them by building and feeling the real thing (ideally prototyping with agents), not only speccing.\n\n - The semantic layer that scales. Component naming, usage rules, and decision guidance so the right choice is the easy choice for any designer, engineer, or agent.\n\n - Adoption across the design org. Create the standards and workflows that make using the design system the default, not something teams and agents have to seek out.\n\n - Documentation + QA workflows. Own usage documentation and quality check workflows that make quality as hands-off and reliable as possible, including AI-assisted checks for consistency, accessibility, and component usage.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BUILD FIRST\n\nIn your first months, you’ll likely:\n\n - Build and evolve the components we actually need — prioritizing the highest-leverage gaps, pressure-testing them in real product work, and turning repeated decisions into durable patterns.\n\n - Establish agent-first systems and workflows — rules + semantics that help humans and agents use the system correctly without depending on tribal knowledge. Set them up to show up in the right moments to create efficiency and consistency across teams.\n\n - Set the operating cadence with design and engineering — a contribution/review rhythm that keeps the system coherent and adopted.\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6+ years in product design, with real depth in design systems built on tokens, component APIs, and a single source of truth in code (not only a Figma library).\n\n - You’ve helped build a design system before. You’ve contributed meaningfully to components/patterns/tokens, governance, adoption, and the messy realities of getting it used.\n\n - A systems thinker. You’d rather build the thing ten people use than ship one feature yourself.\n\n - Taste you can defend. You can pinpoint what’s off (spacing, motion, interaction states) and explain what’s right for Speak and why.\n\n - Clear communication + cross-functional drive. You can write the rule, not just draw the component, and work across teams to drive adoption.\n\n - Autonomy and end-to-end ownership. You thrive with little scaffolding and drive from problem → roadmap → shipped → adopted.\n\n - Fluency with AI in your craft. You’ve built repeatable ways of working with AI/agents and can explain what changed and why.\n\n - Accessibility and scale mindset. You think about how the system holds up as it grows across mobile and web.\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Comfort building or changing components in code (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, or web).\n\n - Shipped consumer-scale mobile products across many markets/locales.\n\n - Built a design system engineers actually used — and that outlasted your time on the team.\n\n - A point of view on where design-to-code and agent workflows are heading, and what’s still broken.\n\n - Experience in language learning, education, or another domain where cross-cultural nuance shapes the product.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"d05014c2-029e-4662-9797-e184296b8694","title":"Product Lead, Enterprise","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-02T22:05:07.526+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d05014c2-029e-4662-9797-e184296b8694","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d05014c2-029e-4662-9797-e184296b8694/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We're looking for a Product Lead to build the product system that lets companies buy, launch, prove, and expand Speak repeatedly and scalably.
Speak for Business cannot scale as consumer Speak plus a portal and manual CS support. The next phase is making companies able to buy, launch, run, prove, and expand Speak through the product itself. This person will build the product pillar that makes Speak indispensable to companies: launch, admin, learner activation, reporting, proof of learning, and renewal/expansion evidence.
This is a hands-on Product Lead role with a clear Enterprise home scope and broad company-level outcome ownership. You'll set product direction and personally raise execution quality, and you'll build and lead a small team of PMs as the pillar scales.
Own enterprise product strategy and roadmap for Speak for Business.
Lead L&D manager, buyer, admin, and reporting workflows.
Design launch, run, prove, and expand loops for enterprise customers.
Build product surfaces that reduce manual CS/GTM work and make customer value visible.
Drive customer discovery and synthesis across L&D leaders, learners, sales, CS, design, data, and engineering.
Turn recurring enterprise requests into reusable enterprise product primitives (access, cohorts, reporting, assessments, nudges, expansion) rather than one-off customer requests.
Define the product scorecard for enterprise readiness: activation, completion, progress evidence, renewal support, and reduction in manual GTM work.
Hire, coach, and manage a team of PMs — set goals, run performance reviews, and grow their careers.
Own team-level prioritization and resourcing across multiple pods within the Enterprise pillar and help set company-wide priorities.
8+ years of hands-on product experience, as well as demonstrated management experience.
Strong B2B, enterprise workflow, SaaS, admin/reporting, customer proof, or dual-motion experience.
Evidence of building product systems from messy customer demand.
Strong written communication and cross-functional product leadership.
Comfort working with revenue-facing teams while keeping product judgment independent.
Ability to lead company-level outcomes from an Enterprise home scope without turning the role into program management.
High agency, plus proven people leadership: direct experience hiring, coaching, and managing PMs (2+ years), not just leading through influence.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe're looking for a Product Lead to build the product system that lets companies buy, launch, prove, and expand Speak repeatedly and scalably.\n\nSpeak for Business https://www.speak.com/b2b cannot scale as consumer Speak plus a portal and manual CS support. The next phase is making companies able to buy, launch, run, prove, and expand Speak through the product itself. This person will build the product pillar that makes Speak indispensable to companies: launch, admin, learner activation, reporting, proof of learning, and renewal/expansion evidence.\n\nThis is a hands-on Product Lead role with a clear Enterprise home scope and broad company-level outcome ownership. You'll set product direction and personally raise execution quality, and you'll build and lead a small team of PMs as the pillar scales.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own enterprise product strategy and roadmap for Speak for Business.\n\n - Lead L&D manager, buyer, admin, and reporting workflows.\n\n - Design launch, run, prove, and expand loops for enterprise customers.\n\n - Build product surfaces that reduce manual CS/GTM work and make customer value visible.\n\n - Drive customer discovery and synthesis across L&D leaders, learners, sales, CS, design, data, and engineering.\n\n - Turn recurring enterprise requests into reusable enterprise product primitives (access, cohorts, reporting, assessments, nudges, expansion) rather than one-off customer requests.\n\n - Define the product scorecard for enterprise readiness: activation, completion, progress evidence, renewal support, and reduction in manual GTM work.\n\n - Hire, coach, and manage a team of PMs — set goals, run performance reviews, and grow their careers.\n\n - Own team-level prioritization and resourcing across multiple pods within the Enterprise pillar and help set company-wide priorities.\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 8+ years of hands-on product experience, as well as demonstrated management experience.\n\n - Strong B2B, enterprise workflow, SaaS, admin/reporting, customer proof, or dual-motion experience.\n\n - Evidence of building product systems from messy customer demand.\n\n - Strong written communication and cross-functional product leadership.\n\n - Comfort working with revenue-facing teams while keeping product judgment independent.\n\n - Ability to lead company-level outcomes from an Enterprise home scope without turning the role into program management.\n\n - High agency, plus proven people leadership: direct experience hiring, coaching, and managing PMs (2+ years), not just leading through influence.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"d1202fee-1fdc-45cb-87c7-67a5f07aebfa","title":"Product Manager, Memory & Personal Intelligence","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-07T22:21:59.513+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d1202fee-1fdc-45cb-87c7-67a5f07aebfa","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d1202fee-1fdc-45cb-87c7-67a5f07aebfa/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We're looking for a Product Lead to build the memory and intelligence layer that helps Speak know what each learner should do next.
Speak's next step is not more disconnected lessons. It is a learning system with durable memory and personal intelligence: it knows what each learner should do next and makes that intelligence usable across lessons, voice, assessment, content, and reporting. This person will create the product and platform layer that lets Speak deliver the right learning experience at the right time across user memory, tutors, lessons, content, recommendations, assessments, evals, and AI systems.
This starts as a hands-on Product Manager role with a clear Memory & Personal Intelligence home scope and broad company-level outcome ownership. As the area grows, management scope may become part of the path, but the first-order need is someone who can personally set product direction, integrate teams, and raise execution quality.
Set Memory & Personal Intelligence product direction.
Own product architecture for longitudinal memory, personalization, sequencing, recommendations, feedback loops, and learner-state models.
Define interfaces between learning experiences, content systems, evals, AI platform, and learner-facing surfaces.
Create cross-team product clarity: principles, artifacts, product requirements, and decision frameworks that multiple pods can build against.
Build product quality loops that improve learning outcomes, trust, and team velocity.
Define the memory, learner-state model, and product interfaces that help multiple teams decide what a learner should do next.
Build the product architecture connecting assessment, content generation, voice practice, recommendations, and learner-facing next actions.
Create the instrumentation and quality loops that tell us whether personalization is improving learning, not just engagement.
Must-have qualifications
6+ years of hands-on product experience, as well as Product Lead experience.
AI, ML, data, recommendations, personalization, platform, learning, or technical product experience.
Strong systems thinking and enough technical fluency to reason with engineers.
Product taste and user empathy, especially where platform decisions shape user-facing quality.
Excellent writing and ability to create artifacts that travel.
Ability to lead company-level outcomes from a Memory & Personal Intelligence home scope without drifting into abstract platform strategy.
High agency without assuming formal authority or direct reports on day one.
Nice-to-have qualifications
Experience with assessment, learning science, health or outcomes products, experimentation, or B2B reporting.
Experience building a system or set of artifacts that multiple product teams adopted.
Prior experience with proficiency, assessments, psychometrics, or education is not required. We care more about learning speed, systems reasoning, research judgment, and the ability to develop conviction in a new domain.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe're looking for a Product Lead to build the memory and intelligence layer that helps Speak know what each learner should do next.\n\nSpeak's next step is not more disconnected lessons. It is a learning system with durable memory and personal intelligence: it knows what each learner should do next and makes that intelligence usable across lessons, voice, assessment, content, and reporting. This person will create the product and platform layer that lets Speak deliver the right learning experience at the right time across user memory, tutors, lessons, content, recommendations, assessments, evals, and AI systems.\n\nThis starts as a hands-on Product Manager role with a clear Memory & Personal Intelligence home scope and broad company-level outcome ownership. As the area grows, management scope may become part of the path, but the first-order need is someone who can personally set product direction, integrate teams, and raise execution quality.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Set Memory & Personal Intelligence product direction.\n\n - Own product architecture for longitudinal memory, personalization, sequencing, recommendations, feedback loops, and learner-state models.\n\n - Define interfaces between learning experiences, content systems, evals, AI platform, and learner-facing surfaces.\n\n - Create cross-team product clarity: principles, artifacts, product requirements, and decision frameworks that multiple pods can build against.\n\n - Build product quality loops that improve learning outcomes, trust, and team velocity.\n\n - Define the memory, learner-state model, and product interfaces that help multiple teams decide what a learner should do next.\n\n - Build the product architecture connecting assessment, content generation, voice practice, recommendations, and learner-facing next actions.\n\n - Create the instrumentation and quality loops that tell us whether personalization is improving learning, not just engagement.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nMust-have qualifications\n\n - 6+ years of hands-on product experience, as well as Product Lead experience.\n\n - AI, ML, data, recommendations, personalization, platform, learning, or technical product experience.\n\n - Strong systems thinking and enough technical fluency to reason with engineers.\n\n - Product taste and user empathy, especially where platform decisions shape user-facing quality.\n\n - Excellent writing and ability to create artifacts that travel.\n\n - Ability to lead company-level outcomes from a Memory & Personal Intelligence home scope without drifting into abstract platform strategy.\n\n - High agency without assuming formal authority or direct reports on day one.\n\nNice-to-have qualifications\n\n - Experience with assessment, learning science, health or outcomes products, experimentation, or B2B reporting.\n\n - Experience building a system or set of artifacts that multiple product teams adopted.\n\nPrior experience with proficiency, assessments, psychometrics, or education is not required. We care more about learning speed, systems reasoning, research judgment, and the ability to develop conviction in a new domain.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"97f02657-b9d1-4293-9842-35c4ac02ec3d","title":"Content Localization Specialist (Korean / Chinese - Simplified)","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Korea - Remote","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-28T01:55:44.886+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Korea"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/97f02657-b9d1-4293-9842-35c4ac02ec3d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/97f02657-b9d1-4293-9842-35c4ac02ec3d/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are looking for a talented multilingual superstar (Korean/Simplified Chinese/English) with skills and backgrounds in translation and localization. The primary contribution is to localize our in-app content for the Korean market. The secondary contribution is to create high-quality Simplified Chinese content for the Korean market with training and support.
We want an expert with excellent oral and written communication skills in both languages. This candidate should have a sharp linguistic understanding of both Simplified Chinese and Korean, with working professional proficiency in English.
Content translation and localization
Perform Korean-Simplified Chinese translation and localization for in-app learning and marketing content from a pedagogical perspective.
Iterate and polish the translated/localized content based on QA tasks in pursuit of an optimal learning experience to Koreans learners teaching Chinese
Content development and writing
If needed, design and write in-app learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in a systematic way for Korean learners at different levels of Simplified Chinese proficiency under training and guidance of the manager.
Content project support
If needed, support operation of content-related projects, such as uploading scripts, QAing lessons, coordinate pieces of the operation under training and guidance of the manager.
Communication and collaboration with international team members
Receive directions well form the manager, implement instructions, complete projects, and maintain clear communication from end-to-end.
Native Simplified Chinese and native or near-native English writing and speaking skills
Deep understanding of both languages and the status quo of Simplified Chinese learning in Korea
Demonstrated experience and expertise in Korean-Simplified Chinese translation and localization
Experience in Simplified Chinese teaching, language pedagogy, or curriculum design
Great attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership and agency
Passion for technology-assisted language learning and willingness to learn and use advanced technologies for work
Working proficiency in English
A fast learner, team player, skilled communicator, and creative problem-solver
Experience working in educational technology (EdTech)
Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials
While we respect contractors’ flexibility and ownership of their own schedule, we expect the localizer / writer to work for 15 – 20 hours a week on average. It is highly likely that more than 20 hours a week is appreciated, depending on the workload and the availability. We completely understand that availability may fluctuate and we also respect contractors’ request to take time off. But we also expect a somewhat regular work schedule or hours in most occasions. All in all, maintaining clear communication with the manager is certainly expected.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a talented multilingual superstar (Korean/Simplified Chinese/English) with skills and backgrounds in translation and localization. The primary contribution is to localize our in-app content for the Korean market. The secondary contribution is to create high-quality Simplified Chinese content for the Korean market with training and support.\nWe want an expert with excellent oral and written communication skills in both languages. This candidate should have a sharp linguistic understanding of both Simplified Chinese and Korean, with working professional proficiency in English.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Content translation and localization\n \n - Perform Korean-Simplified Chinese translation and localization for in-app learning and marketing content from a pedagogical perspective.\n \n - Iterate and polish the translated/localized content based on QA tasks in pursuit of an optimal learning experience to Koreans learners teaching Chinese\n\n - Content development and writing\n \n - If needed, design and write in-app learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in a systematic way for Korean learners at different levels of Simplified Chinese proficiency under training and guidance of the manager.\n\n - Content project support\n \n - If needed, support operation of content-related projects, such as uploading scripts, QAing lessons, coordinate pieces of the operation under training and guidance of the manager.\n\n - Communication and collaboration with international team members\n \n - Receive directions well form the manager, implement instructions, complete projects, and maintain clear communication from end-to-end.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Native Simplified Chinese and native or near-native English writing and speaking skills\n\n - Deep understanding of both languages and the status quo of Simplified Chinese learning in Korea\n\n - Demonstrated experience and expertise in Korean-Simplified Chinese translation and localization\n\n - Experience in Simplified Chinese teaching, language pedagogy, or curriculum design\n\n - Great attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership and agency\n\n - Passion for technology-assisted language learning and willingness to learn and use advanced technologies for work\n\n - Working proficiency in English\n\n - A fast learner, team player, skilled communicator, and creative problem-solver\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience working in educational technology (EdTech)\n\n - Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE EXPECTING\n\nWhile we respect contractors’ flexibility and ownership of their own schedule, we expect the localizer / writer to work for 15 – 20 hours a week on average. It is highly likely that more than 20 hours a week is appreciated, depending on the workload and the availability. We completely understand that availability may fluctuate and we also respect contractors’ request to take time off. But we also expect a somewhat regular work schedule or hours in most occasions. All in all, maintaining clear communication with the manager is certainly expected.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"ab5348dc-badb-4f1d-8d74-4ffa2cde8931","title":"Content Localization Specialist (Japanese / Korean)","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Korea - Remote","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-28T01:57:04.471+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Korea"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ab5348dc-badb-4f1d-8d74-4ffa2cde8931","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ab5348dc-badb-4f1d-8d74-4ffa2cde8931/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are looking for a talented multilingual superstar (Japanese/Korean/English) with skills and backgrounds in translation and localization. The primary contribution is to localize our in-app content for the Japanese market. The secondary contribution is to create high-quality Korean content for the Japanese market with training and support.
We want an expert with excellent oral and written communication skills in both languages. This candidate should have a sharp linguistic understanding of both Korean and Japanese, with working professional proficiency in English.
Content translation and localization
Perform Japanese -Korean translation and localization for in-app learning and marketing content from a pedagogical perspective.
Iterate and polish the translated/localized content based on QA tasks in pursuit of an optimal learning experience to Koreans learners teaching Chinese
Content development and writing
If needed, design and write in-app learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in a systematic way for Korean learners at different levels of Simplified Chinese proficiency under training and guidance of the manager.
Content project support
If needed, support operation of content-related projects, such as uploading scripts, QAing lessons, coordinate pieces of the operation under training and guidance of the manager.
Communication and collaboration with international team members
Receive directions well form the manager, implement instructions, complete projects, and maintain clear communication from end-to-end.
Native Japanese and native or near-native Korean writing and speaking skills
Deep understanding of both languages and the status quo of Korean learning in Japanese
Demonstrated experience and expertise in Japanese-Korean translation and localization
Experience in Korean teaching, language pedagogy, or curriculum design
Great attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership and agency
Passion for technology-assisted language learning and willingness to learn and use advanced technologies for work
Working proficiency in English
A fast learner, team player, skilled communicator, and creative problem-solver
Experience working in educational technology (EdTech)
Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials
While we respect contractors’ flexibility and ownership of their own schedule, we expect the localizer / writer to work for 15 – 20 hours a week on average. It is highly likely that more than 20 hours a week is appreciated, depending on the workload and the availability. We completely understand that availability may fluctuate and we also respect contractors’ request to take time off. But we also expect a somewhat regular work schedule or hours in most occasions. All in all, maintaining clear communication with the manager is certainly expected.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a talented multilingual superstar (Japanese/Korean/English) with skills and backgrounds in translation and localization. The primary contribution is to localize our in-app content for the Japanese market. The secondary contribution is to create high-quality Korean content for the Japanese market with training and support.\nWe want an expert with excellent oral and written communication skills in both languages. This candidate should have a sharp linguistic understanding of both Korean and Japanese, with working professional proficiency in English.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Content translation and localization\n \n - Perform Japanese -Korean translation and localization for in-app learning and marketing content from a pedagogical perspective.\n \n - Iterate and polish the translated/localized content based on QA tasks in pursuit of an optimal learning experience to Koreans learners teaching Chinese\n\n - Content development and writing\n \n - If needed, design and write in-app learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in a systematic way for Korean learners at different levels of Simplified Chinese proficiency under training and guidance of the manager.\n\n - Content project support\n \n - If needed, support operation of content-related projects, such as uploading scripts, QAing lessons, coordinate pieces of the operation under training and guidance of the manager.\n\n - Communication and collaboration with international team members\n \n - Receive directions well form the manager, implement instructions, complete projects, and maintain clear communication from end-to-end.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Native Japanese and native or near-native Korean writing and speaking skills\n\n - Deep understanding of both languages and the status quo of Korean learning in Japanese\n\n - Demonstrated experience and expertise in Japanese-Korean translation and localization\n\n - Experience in Korean teaching, language pedagogy, or curriculum design\n\n - Great attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership and agency\n\n - Passion for technology-assisted language learning and willingness to learn and use advanced technologies for work\n\n - Working proficiency in English\n\n - A fast learner, team player, skilled communicator, and creative problem-solver\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience working in educational technology (EdTech)\n\n - Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE EXPECTING\n\nWhile we respect contractors’ flexibility and ownership of their own schedule, we expect the localizer / writer to work for 15 – 20 hours a week on average. It is highly likely that more than 20 hours a week is appreciated, depending on the workload and the availability. We completely understand that availability may fluctuate and we also respect contractors’ request to take time off. But we also expect a somewhat regular work schedule or hours in most occasions. All in all, maintaining clear communication with the manager is certainly expected.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"e247baa3-af8e-4ea4-a2db-d6f7395e1f5c","title":"Assessment Design Lead","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"US - Remote","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-10T23:20:43.520+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e247baa3-af8e-4ea4-a2db-d6f7395e1f5c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e247baa3-af8e-4ea4-a2db-d6f7395e1f5c/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak cares deeply about learners actually learning and improving with Speak. We have a dedicated Proficiency team to own how we measure learning efficacy and speaking proficiency, from unit-level mastery checks to standalone proficiency tests to onboarding placement, all in service of understanding users’ proficiency levels and learning gains in an accurate, transparent and actionable manner. Because everything happens remotely and asynchronously in the app, keeping scores fair, stable over time, and resistant to gaming is both hard and genuinely interesting.
We're looking for an Assessment Design Lead: the person who defines what we measure, why, how, and signs off on whether our assessments actually measure the right thing. You will be staffed on the Proficiency team and report to the Head of Learning Design and Curriculum. If solving reliable, at-scale speaking assessment excites you and you want to directly shape Speak's efficacy story, we'd love to hear from you.
Own Assessment Design — Define what Speak measures, why, and how often across three distinct assessment types (Curriculum Mastery Assessment, Proficiency Test, Placement Test) — with the Proficiency Test as the immediate focus, expanding to the other two as the pod's priorities evolve. Keep constructs (fluency, pronunciation, grammar, task achievement) clearly separated and each aligned to CEFR or a comparable speaking proficiency standard, so no single assessment conflates domains it wasn't designed to measure.
Define Constructs & Build the Rubric/Blueprint Layer — Translate fuzzy goals like \"measure fluency\" or \"measure pronunciation\" into concrete, scoreable constructs, item blueprints, and rubrics that an item writer can generate items against and an ML Engineer can build a grading model against.
Own Validity & the Quality Bar — Sign off on content validity for every assessment that ships. Decide what \"mastery\" or a passing score operationally means, catch cases where an assessment is measuring the wrong thing before it ships, own the rubric/rater guidelines behind the human-labeled data our ML scoring models are evaluated against, and audit items/rubrics for bias across learner subgroups. Making sure scores stay comparable as the assessment evolves and stay meaningful against attempts to game an unproctored test.
Design and run the validity evidence plan — so validity is built into the process rather than checked only after launch. This includes concurrent/criterion studies benchmarking Speak’s assessments against external proficiency measures (CEFR-anchored exams, expert human ratings), so we can say what a Speak Score means in terms the outside world already trusts.
Partner Tightly with Product and ML — Work closely with the Product Manager and ML Engineers on automated scoring, calibration, and feedback generation. You own the construct and quality bar, they own the model. Neither works without the other, and the loop between you is the product.
Assessment/Psychometric Design: 4+ years designing rubrics, blueprints, and item specs for a real, shipped language assessment product (or equivalent depth in closely related psychometric/measurement work) — not just academic theory. Can explain reliability and validity in plain language and knows how to catch a test that's measuring the wrong construct.
Language Proficiency Domain Expertise: Deep familiarity with frameworks like CEFR (or ACTFL, IELTS/TOEFL band descriptors) and what separates \"did you learn what we taught you\" from \"how good is your speaking overall.\"
Fairness Across Learner Populations: Can identify whether an item or rubric unfairly penalizes specific L1 backgrounds or accents (differential item functioning) — essential for a speech-based test serving learners across dozens of native languages.
Translates Qualitative → Technical: Can turn a construct like \"pronunciation quality\" into something concrete enough for an ML engineer to build a scoring pipeline against, without either oversimplifying or getting lost in academic nuance.
Quantitative Rigor: Comfortable running or interpreting the statistics behind a rubric or rater system — inter-rater reliability (e.g., Cohen's/Fleiss' kappa), classical test theory, and basic IRT concepts — enough to know whether a scoring system is actually reliable, not just plausible.
Ownership of Quality Bar: Comfortable being the sign-off authority on content validity — makes the call clearly and follows through on it, rather than deferring to data alone or product pressure to ship.
AI Fluency & Judgment: Uses AI tools directly in their own workflow (e.g., drafting item variants, testing rubric language, exploring construct definitions) and has real judgment about when AI-generated output is precise enough to ship vs. needs a human rewrite — distinct from spec'ing work for the ML Engineer to build.
Comfort with Ambiguity: Comfortable operating in a 0-to-1 environment. Can wear multiple hats, take a fuzzy goal and turn it into a concrete plan, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and keep momentum without waiting for perfect clarity or team setup
Speech/pronunciation science background — can own pronunciation frameworks and L2-specific error taxonomy directly
Familiarity with adaptive testing or IRT-adjacent concepts (even if not the primary psychometrician)
Experience at a large-scale language testing organization or similar high-rigor assessment environment
Experience thriving in an EdTech startup environment, especially in a newly forming team or 0-to-1 mandate
Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in psychometrics, measurement, applied linguistics, SLA, or a related quantitative field; track record of shipped assessment work still matters more
Has authored technical/validity reports or published assessment research
This role is designed to be highly collaborative with our Assessment ML Engineer. Success depends on a tight loop where constructs, rubrics, and model outputs co-evolve together — from the earliest fuzzy construct through to a shipped scoring model — rather than a one-time handoff from a finished spec to an implementation.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak cares deeply about learners actually learning and improving with Speak. We have a dedicated Proficiency team to own how we measure learning efficacy and speaking proficiency, from unit-level mastery checks to standalone proficiency tests to onboarding placement, all in service of understanding users’ proficiency levels and learning gains in an accurate, transparent and actionable manner. Because everything happens remotely and asynchronously in the app, keeping scores fair, stable over time, and resistant to gaming is both hard and genuinely interesting.\n\nWe're looking for an Assessment Design Lead: the person who defines what we measure, why, how, and signs off on whether our assessments actually measure the right thing. You will be staffed on the Proficiency team and report to the Head of Learning Design and Curriculum. If solving reliable, at-scale speaking assessment excites you and you want to directly shape Speak's efficacy story, we'd love to hear from you.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own Assessment Design — Define what Speak measures, why, and how often across three distinct assessment types (Curriculum Mastery Assessment, Proficiency Test, Placement Test) — with the Proficiency Test as the immediate focus, expanding to the other two as the pod's priorities evolve. Keep constructs (fluency, pronunciation, grammar, task achievement) clearly separated and each aligned to CEFR or a comparable speaking proficiency standard, so no single assessment conflates domains it wasn't designed to measure.\n\n - Define Constructs & Build the Rubric/Blueprint Layer — Translate fuzzy goals like \"measure fluency\" or \"measure pronunciation\" into concrete, scoreable constructs, item blueprints, and rubrics that an item writer can generate items against and an ML Engineer can build a grading model against.\n\n - Own Validity & the Quality Bar — Sign off on content validity for every assessment that ships. Decide what \"mastery\" or a passing score operationally means, catch cases where an assessment is measuring the wrong thing before it ships, own the rubric/rater guidelines behind the human-labeled data our ML scoring models are evaluated against, and audit items/rubrics for bias across learner subgroups. Making sure scores stay comparable as the assessment evolves and stay meaningful against attempts to game an unproctored test.\n\n - Design and run the validity evidence plan — so validity is built into the process rather than checked only after launch. This includes concurrent/criterion studies benchmarking Speak’s assessments against external proficiency measures (CEFR-anchored exams, expert human ratings), so we can say what a Speak Score means in terms the outside world already trusts.\n\n - Partner Tightly with Product and ML — Work closely with the Product Manager and ML Engineers on automated scoring, calibration, and feedback generation. You own the construct and quality bar, they own the model. Neither works without the other, and the loop between you is the product.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\n\nMUST-HAVES\n\n - Assessment/Psychometric Design: 4+ years designing rubrics, blueprints, and item specs for a real, shipped language assessment product (or equivalent depth in closely related psychometric/measurement work) — not just academic theory. Can explain reliability and validity in plain language and knows how to catch a test that's measuring the wrong construct.\n\n - Language Proficiency Domain Expertise: Deep familiarity with frameworks like CEFR (or ACTFL, IELTS/TOEFL band descriptors) and what separates \"did you learn what we taught you\" from \"how good is your speaking overall.\"\n\n - Fairness Across Learner Populations: Can identify whether an item or rubric unfairly penalizes specific L1 backgrounds or accents (differential item functioning) — essential for a speech-based test serving learners across dozens of native languages.\n\n - Translates Qualitative → Technical: Can turn a construct like \"pronunciation quality\" into something concrete enough for an ML engineer to build a scoring pipeline against, without either oversimplifying or getting lost in academic nuance.\n\n - Quantitative Rigor: Comfortable running or interpreting the statistics behind a rubric or rater system — inter-rater reliability (e.g., Cohen's/Fleiss' kappa), classical test theory, and basic IRT concepts — enough to know whether a scoring system is actually reliable, not just plausible.\n\n - Ownership of Quality Bar: Comfortable being the sign-off authority on content validity — makes the call clearly and follows through on it, rather than deferring to data alone or product pressure to ship.\n\n - AI Fluency & Judgment: Uses AI tools directly in their own workflow (e.g., drafting item variants, testing rubric language, exploring construct definitions) and has real judgment about when AI-generated output is precise enough to ship vs. needs a human rewrite — distinct from spec'ing work for the ML Engineer to build.\n\n - Comfort with Ambiguity: Comfortable operating in a 0-to-1 environment. Can wear multiple hats, take a fuzzy goal and turn it into a concrete plan, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and keep momentum without waiting for perfect clarity or team setup\n\n\n\n\nNICE-TO-HAVES\n\n - Speech/pronunciation science background — can own pronunciation frameworks and L2-specific error taxonomy directly\n\n - Familiarity with adaptive testing or IRT-adjacent concepts (even if not the primary psychometrician)\n\n - Experience at a large-scale language testing organization or similar high-rigor assessment environment\n\n - Experience thriving in an EdTech startup environment, especially in a newly forming team or 0-to-1 mandate\n\n - Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in psychometrics, measurement, applied linguistics, SLA, or a related quantitative field; track record of shipped assessment work still matters more\n\n - Has authored technical/validity reports or published assessment research\n\n\n\n\nHOW WE WORK\n\nThis role is designed to be highly collaborative with our Assessment ML Engineer. Success depends on a tight loop where constructs, rubrics, and model outputs co-evolve together — from the earliest fuzzy construct through to a shipped scoring model — rather than a one-time handoff from a finished spec to an implementation.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"b3436415-662f-4056-9be9-61ee615ada8f","title":"Content Localization Specialist (Chinese - Traditional / Japanese)","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Korea - Remote","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Japan - Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Japan"}}},{"location":"US - Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":""}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-20T05:37:24.887+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Korea"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/b3436415-662f-4056-9be9-61ee615ada8f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/b3436415-662f-4056-9be9-61ee615ada8f/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We are looking for a talented multilingual superstar (Traditional Chinese/Japanese/English) with skills and backgrounds in translation and localization. The primary contribution is to localize our in-app content for the Traditional Chinese market. The secondary contribution is to create high-quality Japanese content for the Traditional Chinese market with training and support.
We want an expert with excellent oral and written communication skills in both languages. This candidate should have a sharp linguistic understanding of both Japanese and Traditional Chinese, with working professional proficiency in English.
Content translation and localization
Perform Traditional Chinese -Japanese translation and localization for in-app learning and marketing content from a pedagogical perspective.
Iterate and polish the translated/localized content based on QA tasks in pursuit of an optimal learning experience
Content development and writing
If needed, design and write in-app learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in a systematic way for Japanese learners at different levels of Traditional Chinese proficiency under training and guidance of the manager.
Content project support
If needed, support operation of content-related projects, such as uploading scripts, QAing lessons, coordinate pieces of the operation under training and guidance of the manager.
Communication and collaboration with international team members
Receive directions well form the manager, implement instructions, complete projects, and maintain clear communication from end-to-end.
Native Traditional Chinese and native or near-native Japanese writing and speaking skills
Deep understanding of both languages and the status quo of Japanese learning in Traditional Chinese
Demonstrated experience and expertise in Traditional Chinese-Japanese translation and localization
Experience in Japanese teaching, language pedagogy, or curriculum design
Great attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership and agency
Passion for technology-assisted language learning and willingness to learn and use advanced technologies for work
Working proficiency in English
A fast learner, team player, skilled communicator, and creative problem-solver
Experience working in educational technology (EdTech)
Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials
While we respect contractors’ flexibility and ownership of their own schedule, we expect the localizer / writer to work for 15 – 20 hours a week on average. It is highly likely that more than 20 hours a week is appreciated, depending on the workload and the availability. We completely understand that availability may fluctuate and we also respect contractors’ request to take time off. But we also expect a somewhat regular work schedule or hours in most occasions. All in all, maintaining clear communication with the manager is certainly expected.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a talented multilingual superstar (Traditional Chinese/Japanese/English) with skills and backgrounds in translation and localization. The primary contribution is to localize our in-app content for the Traditional Chinese market. The secondary contribution is to create high-quality Japanese content for the Traditional Chinese market with training and support.\nWe want an expert with excellent oral and written communication skills in both languages. This candidate should have a sharp linguistic understanding of both Japanese and Traditional Chinese, with working professional proficiency in English.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Content translation and localization\n \n - Perform Traditional Chinese -Japanese translation and localization for in-app learning and marketing content from a pedagogical perspective.\n \n - Iterate and polish the translated/localized content based on QA tasks in pursuit of an optimal learning experience\n\n - Content development and writing\n \n - If needed, design and write in-app learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in a systematic way for Japanese learners at different levels of Traditional Chinese proficiency under training and guidance of the manager.\n\n - Content project support\n \n - If needed, support operation of content-related projects, such as uploading scripts, QAing lessons, coordinate pieces of the operation under training and guidance of the manager.\n\n - Communication and collaboration with international team members\n \n - Receive directions well form the manager, implement instructions, complete projects, and maintain clear communication from end-to-end.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Native Traditional Chinese and native or near-native Japanese writing and speaking skills\n\n - Deep understanding of both languages and the status quo of Japanese learning in Traditional Chinese\n\n - Demonstrated experience and expertise in Traditional Chinese-Japanese translation and localization\n\n - Experience in Japanese teaching, language pedagogy, or curriculum design\n\n - Great attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership and agency\n\n - Passion for technology-assisted language learning and willingness to learn and use advanced technologies for work\n\n - Working proficiency in English\n\n - A fast learner, team player, skilled communicator, and creative problem-solver\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience working in educational technology (EdTech)\n\n - Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE EXPECTING\n\nWhile we respect contractors’ flexibility and ownership of their own schedule, we expect the localizer / writer to work for 15 – 20 hours a week on average. It is highly likely that more than 20 hours a week is appreciated, depending on the workload and the availability. We completely understand that availability may fluctuate and we also respect contractors’ request to take time off. But we also expect a somewhat regular work schedule or hours in most occasions. All in all, maintaining clear communication with the manager is certainly expected.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"9fb521a6-b03c-4bc7-a99b-2e4723fba035","title":"CX Agent, Taiwan","department":"Operations","team":"Customer Experience","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-21T04:20:33.620+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/9fb521a6-b03c-4bc7-a99b-2e4723fba035","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/9fb521a6-b03c-4bc7-a99b-2e4723fba035/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak's Global Customer Experience (CX) team, based in Seoul, supports learners in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the US and beyond. We work AI-first: our AI agent resolves a large share of conversations, and CX managers focus on the cases where a person changes the outcome - and on making the AI better.
We're looking for a CX Agent to own support for our Taiwan users. You'll be the voice of Speak for Taiwanese learners: resolving their issues in native Traditional Chinese, finding out why issues happen, and turning what users tell us into changes to our AI agent, our policies and our product.
This is a hybrid role based in Seoul, and a 12-month contract with the potential to extend or convert to full-time based on business needs and performance.
Handle Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau support in Traditional Chinese across in-app chat, email, calls and in-app reports.
Resolve subscription, billing, refund, account and app issues across App Store, Google Play and web payments.
Investigate recurring issues to their root cause and escalate bugs to engineering with clear reproduction steps.
Review our AI agent's Taiwan conversations, find knowledge gaps, and close them with articles, rules and, over time, small code changes.
Work closely with our Taiwan team on campaigns, promotions and user feedback.
Share Taiwan user insights through our VoC reports, and help run user interviews.
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
Must-have qualifications
Native-level Mandarin as used in Taiwan, with excellent written Traditional Chinese
Working-level business English for collaboration with our global team and internal documentation
2+ years in customer support, operations or another customer-facing role
Authorization to work in Korea + ability to work in hybrid at our Seoul office
Nice-to-have qualifications
Conversational Korean ability for day-to-day collaboration with our Seoul team
Experience improving an AI agent, chatbot or automation (writing prompts, knowledge articles or rules)
Experience with git or GitHub, or with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, even for small changes like copy or config fixes
Familiarity with subscription billing or in-app purchase flows
Experience with Intercom or a similar customer support platform
Comfort with data - spreadsheets, SQL, etc.
Written Cantonese ability for Hong Kong and Macau users
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak's Global Customer Experience (CX) team, based in Seoul, supports learners in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the US and beyond. We work AI-first: our AI agent resolves a large share of conversations, and CX managers focus on the cases where a person changes the outcome - and on making the AI better.\n\nWe're looking for a CX Agent to own support for our Taiwan users. You'll be the voice of Speak for Taiwanese learners: resolving their issues in native Traditional Chinese, finding out why issues happen, and turning what users tell us into changes to our AI agent, our policies and our product.\n\nThis is a hybrid role based in Seoul, and a 12-month contract with the potential to extend or convert to full-time based on business needs and performance.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Handle Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau support in Traditional Chinese across in-app chat, email, calls and in-app reports.\n\n - Resolve subscription, billing, refund, account and app issues across App Store, Google Play and web payments.\n\n - Investigate recurring issues to their root cause and escalate bugs to engineering with clear reproduction steps.\n\n - Review our AI agent's Taiwan conversations, find knowledge gaps, and close them with articles, rules and, over time, small code changes.\n\n - Work closely with our Taiwan team on campaigns, promotions and user feedback.\n\n - Share Taiwan user insights through our VoC reports, and help run user interviews.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nIf you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.\n\nMust-have qualifications\n\n - Native-level Mandarin as used in Taiwan, with excellent written Traditional Chinese\n\n - Working-level business English for collaboration with our global team and internal documentation\n\n - 2+ years in customer support, operations or another customer-facing role\n\n - Authorization to work in Korea + ability to work in hybrid at our Seoul office\n\nNice-to-have qualifications\n\n - Conversational Korean ability for day-to-day collaboration with our Seoul team\n\n - Experience improving an AI agent, chatbot or automation (writing prompts, knowledge articles or rules)\n\n - Experience with git or GitHub, or with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, even for small changes like copy or config fixes\n\n - Familiarity with subscription billing or in-app purchase flows\n\n - Experience with Intercom or a similar customer support platform\n\n - Comfort with data - spreadsheets, SQL, etc.\n\n - Written Cantonese ability for Hong Kong and Macau users\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"88b810f3-aa10-4e9e-9dbc-163f2ad40f20","title":"Product Manager - AI Content Generation","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-01T00:39:34.729+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/88b810f3-aa10-4e9e-9dbc-163f2ad40f20","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/88b810f3-aa10-4e9e-9dbc-163f2ad40f20/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We're building a product capability out of what's currently a production bottleneck.
Speak already has a scaled consumer product and a hard mission: help people actually become fluent, not just feel productive in an app. The long-term vision is a superhuman tutor — a system that understands a learner's level, goals, mistakes, context, and next best step, then creates or recommends the right lesson, conversation, drill, assessment, or review at the right moment.
Right now, enabling new languages and creating new professional courses depend on manual production. This role exists to build the product system that scales at the speed of software, makes high-velocity content generation possible with real quality guarantees, human review workflows, and pedagogical integrity.
We're looking for a Product Manager who can personally drive that transformation — designing evals, building authoring and quality workflows, connecting generation to learner outcomes, and raising execution quality across every team involved.
Own the content generation and quality product roadmap
Design and ship authoring, generation, QA, evals, and content improvement loops for internal and external users
Build product workflows for human expert review, automation, and quality gates
Partner closely with curriculum, AI, engineering, product, and learning teams
Define evals and ship/no-ship criteria for AI-generated lessons, feedback, and content variants
Build feedback loops from learner behavior (ratings, completion, complaints, expert review) back into generation quality
Design the end-to-end workflow that moves priority content from request → generated draft → human review → launch
Must-have Qualifications
6+ years of hands-on Product Management experience
Experience with AI product systems: generated content, authoring tools, workflow automation, evals, QA, or expert-review workflows
Technical fluency around model behavior, data quality, reliability, and user trust — enough to define real product requirements, not just relay them
Strong written communication and structured thinking
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional outcomes without formal authority or direct reports
Nice-to-have Qualifications
Experience with creator tooling or content operations at scale
Familiarity with content quality programs, pedagogical frameworks, or learning science
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe're building a product capability out of what's currently a production bottleneck.\n\nSpeak already has a scaled consumer product and a hard mission: help people actually become fluent, not just feel productive in an app. The long-term vision is a superhuman tutor — a system that understands a learner's level, goals, mistakes, context, and next best step, then creates or recommends the right lesson, conversation, drill, assessment, or review at the right moment.\n\nRight now, enabling new languages and creating new professional courses depend on manual production. This role exists to build the product system that scales at the speed of software, makes high-velocity content generation possible with real quality guarantees, human review workflows, and pedagogical integrity.\n\nWe're looking for a Product Manager who can personally drive that transformation — designing evals, building authoring and quality workflows, connecting generation to learner outcomes, and raising execution quality across every team involved.\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own the content generation and quality product roadmap\n\n - Design and ship authoring, generation, QA, evals, and content improvement loops for internal and external users\n\n - Build product workflows for human expert review, automation, and quality gates\n\n - Partner closely with curriculum, AI, engineering, product, and learning teams\n\n - Define evals and ship/no-ship criteria for AI-generated lessons, feedback, and content variants\n\n - Build feedback loops from learner behavior (ratings, completion, complaints, expert review) back into generation quality\n\n - Design the end-to-end workflow that moves priority content from request → generated draft → human review → launch\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nMust-have Qualifications\n\n - 6+ years of hands-on Product Management experience\n\n - Experience with AI product systems: generated content, authoring tools, workflow automation, evals, QA, or expert-review workflows\n\n - Technical fluency around model behavior, data quality, reliability, and user trust — enough to define real product requirements, not just relay them\n\n - Strong written communication and structured thinking\n\n - Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional outcomes without formal authority or direct reports\n\nNice-to-have Qualifications\n\n - Experience with creator tooling or content operations at scale\n\n - Familiarity with content quality programs, pedagogical frameworks, or learning science\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"a228528f-0f84-448d-88bb-1506c58bd66b","title":"Head of Korea","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-08T10:52:11.690+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a228528f-0f84-448d-88bb-1506c58bd66b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a228528f-0f84-448d-88bb-1506c58bd66b/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak is the #1 English learning app in Korea, and we are hiring a Head of Korea to build what comes next. You'll own the entire B2C marketing engine directly for our first and largest market across brand, growth, partnerships, and creative. You’ll foster the healthy & organic brand and position we've earned while finding the next stage of profitable growth. The path you pave will also become references and the playbook for other global markets at Speak, naturally leading to a global scope.
You'll completely own the market’s budget and an experiment-driven channel portfolio spanning influencer and creator, paid UA, organic and social, and partnerships. You'll also partner with our B2B Sales and Product teams to test new acquisition and monetization levers, bringing Korea B2C insights into broader business strategies and goals. A strong-yet-lean team of marketers and designers are waiting for you - and you will provide development & direction, while hiring new members to meet growing business needs. Non-marketing functions within the Korea office (CX, B2B, People & Ops) will not report to you directly, but you'll have strong influence over the larger market operation and the culture in this office as senior leadership.
Own Speak Korea's B2C marketing strategy end to end, setting the direction on audience, messaging, and channel mix.
Grow B2C ARR against the market plan while meeting blended LTV/CAC goals, owning the full funnel across app and web.
Hold and extend our #1 position in the Education category, targeting above 50% top-of-mind awareness in our core segment and building the mid-funnel through consideration and branded search.
Build, coach, and retain a top-tier talent across Brand, Growth, Partnerships, B2B, and Marketing Design.
Partner with Product to prove new acquisition and monetization levers, including freemium variants, family and bundle offers, and new activation paths.
Create B2C & B2B synergy around demand generation and market fit to strengthen Speak’s position as both a consumer & an enterprise product, working with regional & HQ B2B leaders and teams.
Act as the bridge to SF headquarters, translating Korea insights into global playbooks and bringing global learnings back to the local market, including all the cultural nuances.
12+ years in integrated marketing function facing Korea market, ideally in consumer tech or high-growth startups.
Proven full-funnel marketing leadership, spanning acquisition through retention.
Balance between brand and performance management, assessing values of marketing actions by both qualitative & quantitative measures.
Strong analytical and experimentation rigor, comfortable with LTV/CAC modeling and channel economics, and able to distinguish genuine result from noise.
Demonstrated experience building, coaching, and managing marketers & designers of various levels and specialties.
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward execution.
Native fluency in Korean, in both the language and the market/culture.
Business fluency in English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level should not be a blocker to get things done.
Ability to travel as needed, most often to San Francisco HQ.
Senior leadership experience (director level+) at a Series C (or similar) consumer tech company.
Experience scaling from 1 to 10, creating demand rather than only capturing it.
Depth in Korea's influencer and creator ecosystem, with high sensitivity to creative & social trends.
Experience managing/influencing functions beyond marketing in a given flagship/regional office.
Personal brand & story around language learning - carrying a passion that aligns to Speak’s mission.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak is the #1 English learning app in Korea, and we are hiring a Head of Korea to build what comes next. You'll own the entire B2C marketing engine directly for our first and largest market across brand, growth, partnerships, and creative. You’ll foster the healthy & organic brand and position we've earned while finding the next stage of profitable growth. The path you pave will also become references and the playbook for other global markets at Speak, naturally leading to a global scope. \n\nYou'll completely own the market’s budget and an experiment-driven channel portfolio spanning influencer and creator, paid UA, organic and social, and partnerships. You'll also partner with our B2B Sales and Product teams to test new acquisition and monetization levers, bringing Korea B2C insights into broader business strategies and goals. A strong-yet-lean team of marketers and designers are waiting for you - and you will provide development & direction, while hiring new members to meet growing business needs. Non-marketing functions within the Korea office (CX, B2B, People & Ops) will not report to you directly, but you'll have strong influence over the larger market operation and the culture in this office as senior leadership.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Own Speak Korea's B2C marketing strategy end to end, setting the direction on audience, messaging, and channel mix.\n\n - Grow B2C ARR against the market plan while meeting blended LTV/CAC goals, owning the full funnel across app and web.\n\n - Hold and extend our #1 position in the Education category, targeting above 50% top-of-mind awareness in our core segment and building the mid-funnel through consideration and branded search.\n\n - Build, coach, and retain a top-tier talent across Brand, Growth, Partnerships, B2B, and Marketing Design.\n\n - Partner with Product to prove new acquisition and monetization levers, including freemium variants, family and bundle offers, and new activation paths.\n\n - Create B2C & B2B synergy around demand generation and market fit to strengthen Speak’s position as both a consumer & an enterprise product, working with regional & HQ B2B leaders and teams.\n\n - Act as the bridge to SF headquarters, translating Korea insights into global playbooks and bringing global learnings back to the local market, including all the cultural nuances.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 12+ years in integrated marketing function facing Korea market, ideally in consumer tech or high-growth startups.\n\n - Proven full-funnel marketing leadership, spanning acquisition through retention.\n\n - Balance between brand and performance management, assessing values of marketing actions by both qualitative & quantitative measures.\n\n - Strong analytical and experimentation rigor, comfortable with LTV/CAC modeling and channel economics, and able to distinguish genuine result from noise.\n\n - Demonstrated experience building, coaching, and managing marketers & designers of various levels and specialties.\n\n - Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward execution.\n\n - Native fluency in Korean, in both the language and the market/culture.\n\n - Business fluency in English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level should not be a blocker to get things done.\n\n - Ability to travel as needed, most often to San Francisco HQ.\n\n \n\n\nWHILE IT'S NOT REQUIRED, IT'S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - Senior leadership experience (director level+) at a Series C (or similar) consumer tech company.\n\n - Experience scaling from 1 to 10, creating demand rather than only capturing it.\n\n - Depth in Korea's influencer and creator ecosystem, with high sensitivity to creative & social trends.\n\n - Experience managing/influencing functions beyond marketing in a given flagship/regional office.\n\n - Personal brand & story around language learning - carrying a passion that aligns to Speak’s mission.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"63b891e1-9a41-4670-9c21-8ddd677bbd19","title":"B2B Growth Marketer","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T01:51:23.649+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/63b891e1-9a41-4670-9c21-8ddd677bbd19","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/63b891e1-9a41-4670-9c21-8ddd677bbd19/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Speak for Business is expanding across markets, and digital demand generation is one of the engines that will carry that growth. As our global B2B Growth Marketer, you'll own that engine end to end: turning our sales content and customer stories into measurable MQL, SQL, and qualified-pipeline growth, and building the paid acquisition, tracking, experimentation, localization, and reporting systems that make it repeatable.
Based in Seoul, you'll start by proving a Korea playbook, building a predictable engine from the right channels and landing pages, then extend what works to other markets across APAC and beyond, including LATAM, US, and EMEA. Day to day, you'll be hands-on in LinkedIn, Google, Meta, Naver, and more to set up and run QA campaigns in HubSpot, run experiments on audiences and targeting, and work closely with Sales, Content, Design, and local teams. You'll be the dedicated owner of B2B demand generation, with clear processes rather than borrowed capacity.
Own qualified pipeline from paid digital channels: grow MQLs, SQLs, and pipeline quarter over quarter against market- and channel-level targets set with Sales and the B2B Marketing Lead, also based in Korea.
Plan, launch, and optimize campaigns across LinkedIn, Google, Meta, Naver, and other relevant channels, shifting budget based on lead quality, conversion, pipeline, and payback.
Build a predictable Korea demand-generation playbook, then document what works and extend it to other markets (Japan, Taiwan, greater APAC, LATAM, US, and EMEA).
Build full-funnel visibility from source to pipeline by campaign, content, market, stage, and channel, and keep the data trustworthy through attribution and QA.
Drive an experimentation roadmap across audiences, accounts, and persona targeting to lower CPL and improve downstream conversion.
Partner with Content, Design, Sales, Customer Success, and Product to turn case studies, webinars, research, whitepapers, and customer stories into high-performing paid and nurture programs.
4-7 years building and optimizing paid B2B demand-generation programs in a sales-led funnel, with direct accountability for qualified pipeline rather than traffic alone
Hands-on execution in LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and other relevant local platforms with strong search and retargeting fundamentals
Experience configuring and QA'ing forms, UTMs, pixels, tags, marketing-automation workflows, and campaign reporting (using CRM tools like HubSpot or Salesforce)
Analytical rigor to diagnose channel performance, design valid tests, separate real signal from attribution noise, and make budget calls based on downstream conversion
Experience launching localized programs across multiple markets, balancing central standards with local language and cultural norms
Comfortable being the hands-on operator: you build missing processes and own outcomes end to end
Fluency in Korean and business-level English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level, especially in written form, should not be a blocker
Experience in B2B SaaS, HR tech, L&D, or ed tech
Account-based marketing and account targeting experience
Experience using HubSpot alongside an attribution or analytics platform such as HockeyStack, Mode/Hex, or equivalent
Familiarity with gated-content, webinar, case-study, and research-led demand generation
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak for Business is expanding across markets, and digital demand generation is one of the engines that will carry that growth. As our global B2B Growth Marketer, you'll own that engine end to end: turning our sales content and customer stories into measurable MQL, SQL, and qualified-pipeline growth, and building the paid acquisition, tracking, experimentation, localization, and reporting systems that make it repeatable.\n\nBased in Seoul, you'll start by proving a Korea playbook, building a predictable engine from the right channels and landing pages, then extend what works to other markets across APAC and beyond, including LATAM, US, and EMEA. Day to day, you'll be hands-on in LinkedIn, Google, Meta, Naver, and more to set up and run QA campaigns in HubSpot, run experiments on audiences and targeting, and work closely with Sales, Content, Design, and local teams. You'll be the dedicated owner of B2B demand generation, with clear processes rather than borrowed capacity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own qualified pipeline from paid digital channels: grow MQLs, SQLs, and pipeline quarter over quarter against market- and channel-level targets set with Sales and the B2B Marketing Lead, also based in Korea.\n\n - Plan, launch, and optimize campaigns across LinkedIn, Google, Meta, Naver, and other relevant channels, shifting budget based on lead quality, conversion, pipeline, and payback.\n\n - Build a predictable Korea demand-generation playbook, then document what works and extend it to other markets (Japan, Taiwan, greater APAC, LATAM, US, and EMEA).\n\n - Build full-funnel visibility from source to pipeline by campaign, content, market, stage, and channel, and keep the data trustworthy through attribution and QA.\n\n - Drive an experimentation roadmap across audiences, accounts, and persona targeting to lower CPL and improve downstream conversion.\n\n - Partner with Content, Design, Sales, Customer Success, and Product to turn case studies, webinars, research, whitepapers, and customer stories into high-performing paid and nurture programs.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 4-7 years building and optimizing paid B2B demand-generation programs in a sales-led funnel, with direct accountability for qualified pipeline rather than traffic alone\n\n - Hands-on execution in LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and other relevant local platforms with strong search and retargeting fundamentals\n\n - Experience configuring and QA'ing forms, UTMs, pixels, tags, marketing-automation workflows, and campaign reporting (using CRM tools like HubSpot or Salesforce)\n\n - Analytical rigor to diagnose channel performance, design valid tests, separate real signal from attribution noise, and make budget calls based on downstream conversion\n\n - Experience launching localized programs across multiple markets, balancing central standards with local language and cultural norms\n\n - Comfortable being the hands-on operator: you build missing processes and own outcomes end to end\n\n - Fluency in Korean and business-level English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level, especially in written form, should not be a blocker\n\n\n\n\nWHILE IT'S NOT REQUIRED, IT'S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - Experience in B2B SaaS, HR tech, L&D, or ed tech\n\n - Account-based marketing and account targeting experience\n\n - Experience using HubSpot alongside an attribution or analytics platform such as HockeyStack, Mode/Hex, or equivalent\n\n - Familiarity with gated-content, webinar, case-study, and research-led demand generation\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"63a85014-658d-4612-b438-2d3b98d49e92","title":"Product Manager, Learning Outcomes","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-13T16:39:51.952+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/63a85014-658d-4612-b438-2d3b98d49e92","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/63a85014-658d-4612-b438-2d3b98d49e92/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
We're hiring a Product Manager to answer a question every learner and customer should be able to answer: is the learner actually getting better?
Speak sees many signals of progress — assessments, practice, mistakes, learning activity, and what a learner can do over time. Today, those signals do not yet form one clear picture. This PM will turn them into a product that helps learners understand where they are, whether they are improving, and what to do next. For companies using Speak, the same work should provide credible evidence that their learners are making progress.
This is a hands-on senior IC role. You'll work across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Learning, Design, and our B2B team, but the job is not to coordinate those groups. The job is to learn the problem deeply, make the product choices, and ship.
Own product strategy and roadmap for learning outcomes and proficiency.
Talk directly with learners and B2B customers to understand how they judge progress today and where the current experience fails them.
Decide which signals of proficiency and progress are trustworthy enough to drive product decisions.
Ship improvements in assessment, progress, and feedback that help learners understand where they are and what to do next.
Connect measurement back to the learning experience so what we know about a learner changes what Speak does for them.
Define practical quality bars for accuracy, trust, transparency, and actionability.
Work with Engineering, Analytics, Learning, and Design to turn ambiguous evidence into a focused product decision and a measured release.
If you don't think you meet every criterion below but are excited about the role, please apply. We care more about evidence of strong product judgment and learning speed than a perfect match on background.
Must-have Qualifications
Strong product judgment in ambiguous, 0→1 problems: you can choose what matters, narrow scope, and explain what you would learn next.
Experience combining user research and product data to make consequential product decisions.
Systems thinking: you can understand how user experience, data, models, workflows, and technical constraints fit together without losing sight of the user problem.
A track record of shipping products with measurable user or business outcomes.
Clear written and verbal communication.
Nice-to-have Qualifications
Experience with B2B products where the buyer, admin, and end user have different needs.
Experience with measurement-heavy products, personalization, health, education, or other outcomes-oriented systems.
Interest in language learning or learning science.
Prior experience with proficiency, psychometrics, assessments, or education is not required.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe're hiring a Product Manager to answer a question every learner and customer should be able to answer: is the learner actually getting better?\n\nSpeak sees many signals of progress — assessments, practice, mistakes, learning activity, and what a learner can do over time. Today, those signals do not yet form one clear picture. This PM will turn them into a product that helps learners understand where they are, whether they are improving, and what to do next. For companies using Speak, the same work should provide credible evidence that their learners are making progress.\n\nThis is a hands-on senior IC role. You'll work across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Learning, Design, and our B2B team, but the job is not to coordinate those groups. The job is to learn the problem deeply, make the product choices, and ship.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own product strategy and roadmap for learning outcomes and proficiency.\n\n - Talk directly with learners and B2B customers to understand how they judge progress today and where the current experience fails them.\n\n - Decide which signals of proficiency and progress are trustworthy enough to drive product decisions.\n\n - Ship improvements in assessment, progress, and feedback that help learners understand where they are and what to do next.\n\n - Connect measurement back to the learning experience so what we know about a learner changes what Speak does for them.\n\n - Define practical quality bars for accuracy, trust, transparency, and actionability.\n\n - Work with Engineering, Analytics, Learning, and Design to turn ambiguous evidence into a focused product decision and a measured release.\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nIf you don't think you meet every criterion below but are excited about the role, please apply. We care more about evidence of strong product judgment and learning speed than a perfect match on background.\n\nMust-have Qualifications\n\n - Strong product judgment in ambiguous, 0→1 problems: you can choose what matters, narrow scope, and explain what you would learn next.\n\n - Experience combining user research and product data to make consequential product decisions.\n\n - Systems thinking: you can understand how user experience, data, models, workflows, and technical constraints fit together without losing sight of the user problem.\n\n - A track record of shipping products with measurable user or business outcomes.\n\n - Clear written and verbal communication.\n\nNice-to-have Qualifications\n\n - Experience with B2B products where the buyer, admin, and end user have different needs.\n\n - Experience with measurement-heavy products, personalization, health, education, or other outcomes-oriented systems.\n\n - Interest in language learning or learning science.\n\nPrior experience with proficiency, psychometrics, assessments, or education is not required.\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"ba5f2ba5-9672-45a4-8b94-b0c1c5fb5d6f","title":"Deal Desk Manager - Korea","department":"Operations","team":"Finance","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:31:21.227+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ba5f2ba5-9672-45a4-8b94-b0c1c5fb5d6f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ba5f2ba5-9672-45a4-8b94-b0c1c5fb5d6f/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Every month, more than a hundred B2B deals close across Speak's APAC business. There’s meaningful room to improve how we invoice, how we set deals, and how we proactively set what’s best for our customers and for our business. We're looking for a contract Deal Desk Manager based in Seoul to kick off these improvements: advising on deal structure while deals are still moving, and writing down the standard that keeps them clean.
You'll be the first deal desk working APAC hours. Part of the job is the daily work: advising deal owners, checking order forms and evidence, and reconciling Closed Won deals against contracts and provisioned seats. The bigger part is making that work shrink. Our deal structuring standard exists today in decided cases. You'll extract it into a written standard, draft the pricing bands and tier definitions for sign-off, and spec the CRM checks that enforce it. This is a 12-month, full-time contract role based in Seoul, reporting into the local APAC Finance Manager, with room to extend based on performance and business needs.
Own deal structure advice before signature: term, billing shape, seat and enrollment basis, and what our paper and systems can actually carry
Apply our deal tiers and billing standards before signature, keeping Tier 3 and 4 (SMB deals) on standard paper with only pre-approved redlines, routing exceptions early so deals still close, and surfacing Tier 1 and 2 (mid-market to enterprise) key terms to Rev Ops and Legal early
Build our written deal structuring standard from existing precedent, and draft the discount bands, price bands and tier definitions for sign-off by the sales leader, Rev Ops and Legal
Review deals and order forms before they move: required fields, approval routing, pricing inside the tier table, signature authority, and the evidence pack
Reconcile every Closed Won deal against the contract, the evidence and the seats provisioned, and send mismatches back to the deal owner until they are fixed
Track recurring errors to their root cause and fix them at the source, whether that means a clearer standard, a conversation with Sales, or a CRM check with Sales Ops, so the same correction is never needed twice
4+ years in deal desk, deal operations, or pre-signature commercial review for B2B, advising sales teams on how to structure deals, not only checking them
Track record enforcing a pricing, discount, or contract policy with sales reps, including holding the line on deals under close pressure, while knowing what can flex and what needs approval
Precision reading a signed contract against a CRM record line by line: amount, TCV, line items, dates and billing fields
Experience turning precedent or informal practice into a written standard, guideline, or approval matrix that stakeholders signed off on
Business-level Korean, including reading contracts, price tables and business registration certificates in Korean
Fluency in business English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level should not be a blocker to get things done
Hands-on experience with Salesforce or HubSpot quote-to-cash
Experience writing CRM field and validation requirements for a systems team
Exposure to multi-market APAC deals or Korean tax invoice mechanics
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nEvery month, more than a hundred B2B deals close across Speak's APAC business. There’s meaningful room to improve how we invoice, how we set deals, and how we proactively set what’s best for our customers and for our business. We're looking for a contract Deal Desk Manager based in Seoul to kick off these improvements: advising on deal structure while deals are still moving, and writing down the standard that keeps them clean.\n\nYou'll be the first deal desk working APAC hours. Part of the job is the daily work: advising deal owners, checking order forms and evidence, and reconciling Closed Won deals against contracts and provisioned seats. The bigger part is making that work shrink. Our deal structuring standard exists today in decided cases. You'll extract it into a written standard, draft the pricing bands and tier definitions for sign-off, and spec the CRM checks that enforce it. This is a 12-month, full-time contract role based in Seoul, reporting into the local APAC Finance Manager, with room to extend based on performance and business needs.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own deal structure advice before signature: term, billing shape, seat and enrollment basis, and what our paper and systems can actually carry\n\n - Apply our deal tiers and billing standards before signature, keeping Tier 3 and 4 (SMB deals) on standard paper with only pre-approved redlines, routing exceptions early so deals still close, and surfacing Tier 1 and 2 (mid-market to enterprise) key terms to Rev Ops and Legal early\n\n - Build our written deal structuring standard from existing precedent, and draft the discount bands, price bands and tier definitions for sign-off by the sales leader, Rev Ops and Legal\n\n - Review deals and order forms before they move: required fields, approval routing, pricing inside the tier table, signature authority, and the evidence pack\n\n - Reconcile every Closed Won deal against the contract, the evidence and the seats provisioned, and send mismatches back to the deal owner until they are fixed\n\n - Track recurring errors to their root cause and fix them at the source, whether that means a clearer standard, a conversation with Sales, or a CRM check with Sales Ops, so the same correction is never needed twice\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 4+ years in deal desk, deal operations, or pre-signature commercial review for B2B, advising sales teams on how to structure deals, not only checking them\n\n - Track record enforcing a pricing, discount, or contract policy with sales reps, including holding the line on deals under close pressure, while knowing what can flex and what needs approval\n\n - Precision reading a signed contract against a CRM record line by line: amount, TCV, line items, dates and billing fields\n\n - Experience turning precedent or informal practice into a written standard, guideline, or approval matrix that stakeholders signed off on\n\n - Business-level Korean, including reading contracts, price tables and business registration certificates in Korean\n\n - Fluency in business English; communicating with the global team at Speak on a daily level should not be a blocker to get things done\n\n\n\n\nWHILE IT'S NOT REQUIRED, IT'S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE:\n\n - Hands-on experience with Salesforce or HubSpot quote-to-cash\n\n - Experience writing CRM field and validation requirements for a systems team\n\n - Exposure to multi-market APAC deals or Korean tax invoice mechanics\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."},{"id":"8428825b-a10f-47e2-acc6-5e24d11d6137","title":"Full-Stack Engineer - Enterprise","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-26T23:19:48.266+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/8428825b-a10f-47e2-acc6-5e24d11d6137","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/8428825b-a10f-47e2-acc6-5e24d11d6137/application","descriptionHtml":"Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
About This Role
We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to serve as a hands-on technical contributor for Speak for Business, the pod building the enterprise layer of Speak. You’ll work across the B2B product surface — partner portals, reporting, B2B subscription mechanics, admin experiences, and learner features that require an enterprise touch. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript across Node.js and Postgres, partnering with engineers in adjacent pods where experiences cross team boundaries.
You’ll turn product requirements and business goals into clear technical designs, contribute hands-on across the stack, and help set a high bar for architecture, reliability, and code quality on a small, fast-moving team. Near-term work includes B2B onboarding flows, partner-facing reporting, subscription and billing mechanics, and enterprise-ready features that support our growing Sales and CS motion.
What You’ll Be Doing
Building and owning full-stack features across the Speak for Business product surface, including partner portals, admin dashboards, reporting, and B2B subscription workflows
Designing and implementing backend services, APIs, and data models that support multi-tenant enterprise use cases
Leading cross-functional integrations across authentication, entitlements, billing, CRM, and analytics
Partnering closely with product, design, sales, and customer success to define scope and deliver end-to-end outcomes
Setting a high quality bar for privacy, security, observability, data integrity, and safe rollouts
Contributing to an AI-native development workflow — reviewing plans and designs before implementation, creating strong verification loops, and shipping safely with AI-assisted tooling
Mentoring engineers and raising the team’s bar for technical judgment and ownership
What We’re Looking For
6+ years of experience building production-scale web applications, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL databases (Postgres preferred)
Full-stack capability — comfortable across both frontend and backend, with solid database fundamentals
Experience with or strong interest in B2B SaaS, enterprise product surfaces, or multi-tenant systems
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to translate enterprise requirements into pragmatic scope and durable technical foundations
Experience designing APIs and backend services, reasoning clearly about system boundaries, and working with relational data
Ability to work autonomously and adapt quickly on a small team with low meeting overhead and high ownership expectations
Excellent cross-functional communication and a collaborative working style
Excitement about AI-assisted development, paired with thoughtful verification and a high production-quality bar
Nice to have:
Experience with multi-tenant B2B SaaS, SSO/SAML, billing, invoicing, or entitlements
Familiarity with admin dashboards, reporting, or analytics integrations
Experience with B2B account models, roles, or provisioning
CRM or marketing technology integrations
Experience building for both consumer and B2B surfaces
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does 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.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT US\n\nOur mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.\n\nLearning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.\n\nSpeak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.\n\n\n\nAbout This Role\n\nWe’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to serve as a hands-on technical contributor for Speak for Business, the pod building the enterprise layer of Speak. You’ll work across the B2B product surface — partner portals, reporting, B2B subscription mechanics, admin experiences, and learner features that require an enterprise touch. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript across Node.js and Postgres, partnering with engineers in adjacent pods where experiences cross team boundaries.\n\nYou’ll turn product requirements and business goals into clear technical designs, contribute hands-on across the stack, and help set a high bar for architecture, reliability, and code quality on a small, fast-moving team. Near-term work includes B2B onboarding flows, partner-facing reporting, subscription and billing mechanics, and enterprise-ready features that support our growing Sales and CS motion.\n\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\n\n - Building and owning full-stack features across the Speak for Business product surface, including partner portals, admin dashboards, reporting, and B2B subscription workflows\n\n - Designing and implementing backend services, APIs, and data models that support multi-tenant enterprise use cases\n\n - Leading cross-functional integrations across authentication, entitlements, billing, CRM, and analytics\n\n - Partnering closely with product, design, sales, and customer success to define scope and deliver end-to-end outcomes\n\n - Setting a high quality bar for privacy, security, observability, data integrity, and safe rollouts\n\n - Contributing to an AI-native development workflow — reviewing plans and designs before implementation, creating strong verification loops, and shipping safely with AI-assisted tooling\n\n - Mentoring engineers and raising the team’s bar for technical judgment and ownership\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n - 6+ years of experience building production-scale web applications, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL databases (Postgres preferred)\n\n - Full-stack capability — comfortable across both frontend and backend, with solid database fundamentals\n\n - Experience with or strong interest in B2B SaaS, enterprise product surfaces, or multi-tenant systems\n\n - Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to translate enterprise requirements into pragmatic scope and durable technical foundations\n\n - Experience designing APIs and backend services, reasoning clearly about system boundaries, and working with relational data\n\n - Ability to work autonomously and adapt quickly on a small team with low meeting overhead and high ownership expectations\n\n - Excellent cross-functional communication and a collaborative working style\n\n - Excitement about AI-assisted development, paired with thoughtful verification and a high production-quality bar\n\n - Nice to have:\n \n - Experience with multi-tenant B2B SaaS, SSO/SAML, billing, invoicing, or entitlements\n \n - Familiarity with admin dashboards, reporting, or analytics integrations\n \n - Experience with B2B account models, roles, or provisioning\n \n - CRM or marketing technology integrations\n \n - Experience building for both consumer and B2B surfaces\n\n\n\n\nWHY WORK AT SPEAK\n\n 1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.\n\n 2. Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.\n\n 3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.\n\n 4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.\n\nSpeak does 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."}],"apiVersion":"1"}