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 of six working 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 design awards to win.
Speak’s enterprise product is still early, but the problem is big: companies need to know whether their teams are actually building language proficiency, where learners are getting stuck, and what interventions will help. You’ll help define the tools they use to launch programs, understand progress, spot risks, and prove that language learning is working.
Shape the strategy and design of our company-facing product — the admin, reporting, and account experiences the L&D managers who buy Speak rely on to launch, run, and prove their programs
Turn complex learner progress, proficiency, and risk signals into reporting that L&D leaders can trust, understand, and act on
Set the design foundation for a surface that's still early — closer to 0-to-1 than operating a mature product
Quickly set up prototypes in AI tools or code to communicate concepts, build alignment, and pressure-test real experiences
Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, GTM, and Customer Success — translating what customers need to buy, launch, renew, and expand into product experiences that actually work
Feel comfortable and creative in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment
What you’d actually work on depends on staffing — we’ll figure that out together once we’ve seen your work and understand where you’d have the most fun and impact. We’re excited about proving outcomes leaders trust, making complex workflows feel easy, and making Speak the most effective solution on the market.
6+ years of product design experience. You have experience designing in both consumer and B2B contexts.
B2B / enterprise SaaS craft. You've designed admin consoles, dashboards, reporting, and complex multi-user workflows — not just consumer surfaces — and you're comfortable with roles, permissions, and account models.
Systems and platform thinking. You treat the enterprise surface as a platform, designing so the product carries work that's done by hand today, rather than one-off screens.
You stay close to users. You think about real people learning real languages in real contexts. You actively seek out the people using the product — not just the data about them — and turn what you learn into clear product direction.
Product thinking and structured judgment. You frame the problem before solving it and know why you’re doing something. You can turn messy problems into a clear story: what matters, what tradeoffs we’re making, and why.
AI-native workflow. You use AI as part of your design process to move faster, explore more directions, prototype, or sharpen your thinking. You’re excited to keep pushing what that can look like and bring the best parts to the rest of the team.
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
Background in L&D, edtech, HR-tech, or enterprise analytics — you've lived in the buyer's world
Global or multilingual enterprise experience — our priority accounts are Korea-led with multilingual cohorts
A bias toward prototyping first, whether in code, AI tools, Figma, or whatever helps make the idea feel real
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 on how agentic workflows can improve the design process, and comfort tinkering in code or AI tools to make ideas tangible
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, and Tokyo, 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 of six working 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 design awards to win.\n\n\n\n\nROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES\n\nSpeak’s enterprise product is still early, but the problem is big: companies need to know whether their teams are actually building language proficiency, where learners are getting stuck, and what interventions will help. You’ll help define the tools they use to launch programs, understand progress, spot risks, and prove that language learning is working.\n\n - Shape the strategy and design of our company-facing product — the admin, reporting, and account experiences the L&D managers who buy Speak rely on to launch, run, and prove their programs\n\n - Turn complex learner progress, proficiency, and risk signals into reporting that L&D leaders can trust, understand, and act on\n\n - Set the design foundation for a surface that's still early — closer to 0-to-1 than operating a mature product\n\n - Quickly set up prototypes in AI tools or code to communicate concepts, build alignment, and pressure-test real experiences\n\n - Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, GTM, and Customer Success — translating what customers need to buy, launch, renew, and expand into product experiences that actually work\n\n - Feel comfortable and creative in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment\n\nWhat you’d actually work on depends on staffing — we’ll figure that out together once we’ve seen your work and understand where you’d have the most fun and impact. We’re excited about proving outcomes leaders trust, making complex workflows feel easy, and making Speak the most effective solution on the market.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6+ years of product design experience. You have experience designing in both consumer and B2B contexts.\n\n - B2B / enterprise SaaS craft. You've designed admin consoles, dashboards, reporting, and complex multi-user workflows — not just consumer surfaces — and you're comfortable with roles, permissions, and account models.\n\n - Systems and platform thinking. You treat the enterprise surface as a platform, designing so the product carries work that's done by hand today, rather than one-off screens.\n\n - You stay close to users. You think about real people learning real languages in real contexts. You actively seek out the people using the product — not just the data about them — and turn what you learn into clear product direction.\n\n - Product thinking and structured judgment. You frame the problem before solving it and know why you’re doing something. You can turn messy problems into a clear story: what matters, what tradeoffs we’re making, and why.\n\n - AI-native workflow. You use AI as part of your design process to move faster, explore more directions, prototype, or sharpen your thinking. You’re excited to keep pushing what that can look like and bring the best parts to the rest of the team.\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 - Background in L&D, edtech, HR-tech, or enterprise analytics — you've lived in the buyer's world\n\n - Global or multilingual enterprise experience — our priority accounts are Korea-led with multilingual cohorts\n\n - A bias toward prototyping first, whether in code, AI tools, Figma, or whatever helps make the idea feel real\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 on how agentic workflows can improve the design process, and comfort tinkering in code or AI tools to make ideas tangible\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, and Tokyo, 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":"e91eb4bc-93bf-4e3a-b7c9-4a2f506df43f","title":"AI Product Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2023-09-19T05:51:39.011+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e91eb4bc-93bf-4e3a-b7c9-4a2f506df43f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e91eb4bc-93bf-4e3a-b7c9-4a2f506df43f/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.
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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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 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, and Tokyo, 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. 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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, and Tokyo, 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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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 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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.
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 on a mission to transform language learning for enterprises and individuals around the globe. With a rapidly expanding B2B segment, we are seeking an Head of APAC Sales to drive exponential growth in our most dynamic & major region. This role will lead all APAC sales efforts - from new-logo acquisition among top-tier enterprises to expansion within our existing customer base - while also managing and mentoring local sales teams in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. You will partner closely with Marketing, Product, and CSM teams to ensure our offerings resonate across diverse APAC markets.
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 (mainly Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, with room to grow into SEA, etc.)
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.
Refine inbound qualification and closing strategies to achieve near 100% conversion on inbound leads.
Develop & Document Sales Playbooks:
Drive pitch decks, battle cards, and scripts; establish best practices for multi-market outreach, negotiation, and closing.
Continuously refine these playbooks based on data and feedback loops.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally:
Work hand-in-hand with Marketing to design local campaigns, webinars, and events that generate high-quality leads.
Provide market-specific feedback to Product, influencing roadmap priorities.
Partner with Finance/Operations for accurate forecasting and quota-setting.
Track & Communicate Progress:
Regularly report on pipeline, forecast accuracy, and key initiatives to senior leadership.
Document lessons learned and best practices to build a scalable regional sales engine.
10+ years of B2B Sales Experience, with 5+ 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.
Strategic Thinker & Doer: You can craft high-level regional strategies but are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to close deals.
Team Builder & Coach: You’re skilled at hiring, developing, and motivating diverse, geographically distributed teams.
Operational & Data-Driven: Familiar with CRM best practices, pipeline management, forecasting, and sales enablement tools.
Customer-Focused Communicator: Adept at building senior-level relationships and navigating complex enterprise buying cycles.
Cross-Cultural Competence: Fluent in English; additional APAC languages (especially Korean or Japanese) highly valued.
High Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and eager to create solutions where they don’t yet exist.
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, and Tokyo, 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 and individuals around the globe. With a rapidly expanding B2B segment, we are seeking an Head of APAC Sales to drive exponential growth in our most dynamic & major region. This role will lead all APAC sales efforts - from new-logo acquisition among top-tier enterprises to expansion within our existing customer base - while also managing and mentoring local sales teams in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. You will partner closely with Marketing, Product, and CSM teams to ensure our offerings resonate across diverse APAC markets.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Set & 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\n - Lead High-Performing Sales Teams:\n \n - Manage and mentor local Sales team members (mainly Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, with room to grow into SEA, etc.)\n \n - Build upon a culture of accountability, clear communication, and high-velocity execution.\n\n - Drive 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\n - Own Outbound & Inbound Sales Processes:\n \n - Build robust outbound motion to penetrate target accounts, fostering a “fearless” approach to lead generation.\n \n - Refine inbound qualification and closing strategies to achieve near 100% conversion on inbound leads.\n\n - Develop & Document Sales Playbooks:\n \n - Drive pitch decks, battle cards, and scripts; establish best practices for multi-market outreach, negotiation, and closing.\n \n - Continuously refine these playbooks based on data and feedback loops.\n\n - Collaborate Cross-Functionally:\n \n - Work hand-in-hand with Marketing to design local campaigns, webinars, and events that generate high-quality leads.\n \n - Provide market-specific feedback to Product, influencing roadmap priorities.\n \n - Partner with Finance/Operations for accurate forecasting and quota-setting.\n\n - Track & Communicate Progress:\n \n - Regularly report on pipeline, forecast accuracy, and key initiatives to senior leadership.\n \n - Document lessons learned and best practices to build a scalable regional sales engine.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 10+ years of B2B Sales Experience, with 5+ 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 - Strategic Thinker & Doer: You can craft high-level regional strategies but are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to close deals.\n\n - Team Builder & Coach: You’re skilled at hiring, developing, and motivating diverse, geographically distributed teams.\n\n - Operational & Data-Driven: Familiar with CRM best practices, pipeline management, forecasting, and sales enablement tools.\n\n - Customer-Focused Communicator: Adept at building senior-level relationships and navigating complex enterprise buying cycles.\n\n - Cross-Cultural Competence: Fluent in English; additional APAC languages (especially Korean or Japanese) highly valued.\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\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, and Tokyo, 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.
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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 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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
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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.
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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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":"e07518d6-bf67-49cc-ae07-b6fcbcde5ca3","title":"Android Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Mobile Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2024-11-28T01:09:42.111+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e07518d6-bf67-49cc-ae07-b6fcbcde5ca3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/e07518d6-bf67-49cc-ae07-b6fcbcde5ca3/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.
This is an extraordinary moment to join us. We're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change. We're operating in an agentic-first world, where the role of a builder is shifting from writing every line of code to designing systems that build, test, and improve themselves.
At Speak, you'll use AI agents as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow—helping you move faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the highest-impact problems. That means embracing ambiguity, iterating quickly, and working fluidly across functions—not just within a single discipline.
We're looking for an Android Engineer who is excited to rethink how work gets done in an AI-native environment, and who want to help define what building looks like in this new paradigm.
As an Android Engineer on Speak’s engineering team, you will be responsible for a variety of features including improving how we serve our content, run A/B tests on monetization features, support launching of new markets and new languages. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and our partners in Product and Design. You’ll be responsible for shipping product features to millions of users.
Build growth loops -> referrals, in-app shareables, Speak on web
Improve new user acquisition and user retention
pricing and packaging
Launch new markets and languages
Improving our text to speech system
Improving our audio and video streaming systems
3+ years of industry experience working as a Mobile Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users
Proficiency in Kotlin, with a strong understanding of common mobile architectures including MVC/MVVM
bonus: Experience in Jetpack Compose
bonus: Experience in mobile streaming technologies (websockets, ll-hls)
Experience using coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow — not just as autocomplete, but as active partners in designing, testing, and shipping.
Reactive programming(RX Java, etc)
Knowledgable in mobile build practices(eg jenkins, bitrise)
Knowledgable in Google Play Billing
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
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, and Tokyo, 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\nThis is an extraordinary moment to join us. We're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change https://www.speak.com/blog/agentic-engineering. We're operating in an agentic-first world, where the role of a builder is shifting from writing every line of code to designing systems that build, test, and improve themselves.\n\nAt Speak, you'll use AI agents as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow—helping you move faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the highest-impact problems. That means embracing ambiguity, iterating quickly, and working fluidly across functions—not just within a single discipline.\n\nWe're looking for an Android Engineer who is excited to rethink how work gets done in an AI-native environment, and who want to help define what building looks like in this new paradigm.\n\nAs an Android Engineer on Speak’s engineering team, you will be responsible for a variety of features including improving how we serve our content, run A/B tests on monetization features, support launching of new markets and new languages. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and our partners in Product and Design. You’ll be responsible for shipping product features to millions of users.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Build growth loops -> referrals, in-app shareables, Speak on web\n\n - Improve new user acquisition and user retention\n\n - pricing and packaging\n\n - Launch new markets and languages\n\n - Improving our text to speech system\n\n - Improving our audio and video streaming systems\n \n \n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 3+ years of industry experience working as a Mobile Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment\n \n - bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users\n\n - Proficiency in Kotlin, with a strong understanding of common mobile architectures including MVC/MVVM\n \n - bonus: Experience in Jetpack Compose\n \n - bonus: Experience in mobile streaming technologies (websockets, ll-hls)\n\n - Experience using coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow — not just as autocomplete, but as active partners in designing, testing, and shipping.\n\n - Reactive programming(RX Java, etc)\n\n - Knowledgable in mobile build practices(eg jenkins, bitrise)\n\n - Knowledgable in Google Play Billing\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\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, and Tokyo, 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":"52cb35ec-b686-4503-8e0a-08ff2cbf0722","title":"iOS Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Mobile Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-15T01:02:35.676+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/52cb35ec-b686-4503-8e0a-08ff2cbf0722","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/52cb35ec-b686-4503-8e0a-08ff2cbf0722/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.
This is an extraordinary moment to join us. We're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change. We're operating in an agentic-first world, where the role of a builder is shifting from writing every line of code to designing systems that build, test, and improve themselves.
At Speak, you'll use AI agents as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow—helping you move faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the highest-impact problems. That means embracing ambiguity, iterating quickly, and working fluidly across functions—not just within a single discipline.
We're looking for an iOS engineer who is excited to rethink how work gets done in an AI-native environment, and who want to help define what building looks like in this new paradigm.
As an iOS Engineer on Speak’s engineering team, you will be responsible for a variety of areas including improving how we serve our content, run A/B tests on monetization features, and supporting the launching of new markets and new languages. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and our partners in Product and Design. You’ll be responsible for shipping product features to millions of users.
Improve “freemium” experience to increase conversions
Support the launching of new markets and new languages
Implement various paywall tests, such as pricing, design changes, delayed paywalls, discounted offers, etc.
Improve our speech-to-text system
Improve our audio and video streaming systems
3+ years of industry experience working as a Mobile Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users
Proficiency in Swift, with a strong understanding of common mobile architectures including MVC/MVVM
bonus: Experience in SwiftUI
bonus: Experience in mobile streaming technologies (websockets, ll-hls)
Experience using coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow — not just as autocomplete, but as active partners in designing, testing, and shipping.
Knowledgable in mobile build practices(eg jenkins, bitrise)
Knowledgable in Apple StoreKit/RevenueCat
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
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, and Tokyo, 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\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nThis is an extraordinary moment to join us. We're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change https://www.speak.com/blog/agentic-engineering. We're operating in an agentic-first world, where the role of a builder is shifting from writing every line of code to designing systems that build, test, and improve themselves.\n\nAt Speak, you'll use AI agents as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow—helping you move faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the highest-impact problems. That means embracing ambiguity, iterating quickly, and working fluidly across functions—not just within a single discipline.\n\nWe're looking for an iOS engineer who is excited to rethink how work gets done in an AI-native environment, and who want to help define what building looks like in this new paradigm.\n\nAs an iOS Engineer on Speak’s engineering team, you will be responsible for a variety of areas including improving how we serve our content, run A/B tests on monetization features, and supporting the launching of new markets and new languages. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and our partners in Product and Design. You’ll be responsible for shipping product features to millions of users.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Improve “freemium” experience to increase conversions\n\n - Support the launching of new markets and new languages\n\n - Implement various paywall tests, such as pricing, design changes, delayed paywalls, discounted offers, etc.\n\n - Improve our speech-to-text system\n\n - Improve our audio and video streaming systems\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 3+ years of industry experience working as a Mobile Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment\n \n - bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users\n\n - Proficiency in Swift, with a strong understanding of common mobile architectures including MVC/MVVM\n \n - bonus: Experience in SwiftUI\n \n - bonus: Experience in mobile streaming technologies (websockets, ll-hls)\n\n - Experience using coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow — not just as autocomplete, but as active partners in designing, testing, and shipping.\n\n - Knowledgable in mobile build practices(eg jenkins, bitrise)\n\n - Knowledgable in Apple StoreKit/RevenueCat\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\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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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.
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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 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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":"5905c113-489f-4358-8093-f1972908e5e2","title":"Platform Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-05-14T22:29:06.159+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/5905c113-489f-4358-8093-f1972908e5e2","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/5905c113-489f-4358-8093-f1972908e5e2/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.
About this role
As a Platform Engineer at Speak, you’ll be the driving force behind the reliability and resilience of the systems that power our global language learning experience. You’ll lead efforts to scale our infrastructure, harden our platform, and ensure that our services are fast, available, and reliable for millions of users around the world.
You’ll work across our stack—from Kubernetes on GCP to our Node.js APIs, Postgres, and Redis —building robust infrastructure and operational tooling. You’ll own incident response, observability, and SLOs while embedding a culture of reliability throughout the engineering org.
Speak is growing rapidly, and we’re pushing our systems harder every day. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform as we scale to the next 10x of users.
What you’ll be doing
Own the reliability of Speak’s infrastructure across GCP, Kubernetes, and our Node.js/Postgres stack
Lead response for P0/P1 incidents, drive postmortems, and ensure we’re learning from every outage
Improve observability, alerting, and on-call processes so we catch issues before users do
Define and drive adoption of SLOs/SLAs for core systems and services
Build tools and frameworks to make reliability easier for product engineers—think safer deploys and infrastructure automation
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and ML teams to ensure reliability is baked into everything we build
Set short term and long term roadmaps to ensure stability for our growing user base.
Be a thought leader and coach around platform and infrastructure engineering principles—blameless culture, operational maturity, and continuous improvement
What we’re looking for
7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform, and/or infrastructure-focused engineering roles, ideally with experience leading or mentoring others
Strong experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, and observability tooling like Prometheus and Sentry
Proven track record of improving reliability, scaling systems, and reducing incident frequency and severity with high traffic systems
Strong incident management and root cause analysis skills—you know how to lead under pressure
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety tooling
Strong systems thinking, with the ability to identify failure points and proactively harden services
Deep sense of ownership and a desire to make infrastructure a force multiplier for the rest of the org
Bonus
Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in cloud-native environments
Background in security, chaos engineering, or disaster recovery planning
Contributions to internal tooling, automation, or developer productivity 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, and Tokyo, 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\nAs a Platform Engineer at Speak, you’ll be the driving force behind the reliability and resilience of the systems that power our global language learning experience. You’ll lead efforts to scale our infrastructure, harden our platform, and ensure that our services are fast, available, and reliable for millions of users around the world.\n\nYou’ll work across our stack—from Kubernetes on GCP to our Node.js APIs, Postgres, and Redis —building robust infrastructure and operational tooling. You’ll own incident response, observability, and SLOs while embedding a culture of reliability throughout the engineering org.\n\nSpeak is growing rapidly, and we’re pushing our systems harder every day. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform as we scale to the next 10x of users.\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\n\n - Own the reliability of Speak’s infrastructure across GCP, Kubernetes, and our Node.js/Postgres stack\n\n - Lead response for P0/P1 incidents, drive postmortems, and ensure we’re learning from every outage\n\n - Improve observability, alerting, and on-call processes so we catch issues before users do\n\n - Define and drive adoption of SLOs/SLAs for core systems and services\n\n - Build tools and frameworks to make reliability easier for product engineers—think safer deploys and infrastructure automation\n\n - Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and ML teams to ensure reliability is baked into everything we build\n\n - Set short term and long term roadmaps to ensure stability for our growing user base.\n\n - Be a thought leader and coach around platform and infrastructure engineering principles—blameless culture, operational maturity, and continuous improvement\n\n\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n\n - 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform, and/or infrastructure-focused engineering roles, ideally with experience leading or mentoring others\n\n - Strong experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, and observability tooling like Prometheus and Sentry\n\n - Proven track record of improving reliability, scaling systems, and reducing incident frequency and severity with high traffic systems\n\n - Strong incident management and root cause analysis skills—you know how to lead under pressure\n\n - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety tooling\n\n - Strong systems thinking, with the ability to identify failure points and proactively harden services\n\n - Deep sense of ownership and a desire to make infrastructure a force multiplier for the rest of the org\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n - Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in cloud-native environments\n\n - Background in security, chaos engineering, or disaster recovery planning\n\n - Contributions to internal tooling, automation, or developer productivity 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, and Tokyo, 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":"93a345f7-0805-438b-920b-2a659c2d97f3","title":"Brand Marketing Manager - Japan","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Tokyo","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-08-12T05:56:51.783+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Tokyo","addressCountry":"Japan","addressLocality":"Tokyo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/93a345f7-0805-438b-920b-2a659c2d97f3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/93a345f7-0805-438b-920b-2a659c2d97f3/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.
スピークジャパンのチームは、謙虚さを大切にしながら、お互いを尊重し合い、協力して前に進む文化です。フラットで風通しの良い組織の中で、役職に関係なく率直に意見を交わし、良いアイデアはすぐに試してみるスピード感と柔軟さがあります。メンバーは自律的に動きながらもプロフェッショナル意識と高い成長意欲を持ち、少人数で大きな成果を目指しています。
スピークのマーケターは、単に数字を追いかけるだけの存在ではありません。数値に表れないユーザーの感情、ブランドへの愛着、行動パターンまで捉え、最適なマーケティング戦略を描いています。
クリエイティブ面でも、ブランドマネージャーやパフォーマンスマーケティングなど職種に関係なく、ターゲットやブランドへの深い理解をもとに、高い効果を発揮するマーケティングを実現しています。そして何より、プロダクトに強い愛情と誇りを持っています。
「言語学習から学び方の変革を導く」というミッションに共感し、自ら考え、行動に移せる方。スピード感があり、自由度の高いスタートアップ環境で、大きな挑戦に取り組みたい方、ぜひご応募ください。
Speak is looking for a Brand & PR Manager to help shape our identity and expand our reach in Japan. This role is both strategic and hands-on - you’ll define the roadmap for how we earn attention and trust in one of our most important markets.
We’re not looking for someone to \"coordinate.\" We're looking for someone to own the outcome: to lead, execute, and share back what we’re learning — so we get better, faster, together.
Own and evolve Speak’s brand in Japan
Build trust and awareness through Brand, PR/Media, and Owned Social
Define clear messaging and creative direction
Research, evaluate, and test channels with a data-first approach (e.g., TVCM, OOH, Digital)
Engage media, journalists, and a PR agency to earn exposure
Analyze brand performance and campaign impact using both qualitative and quantitative data
Plan and test localized, high-impact social content
Share findings and updates clearly with internal stakeholders
5+ years of experience in brand marketing / PR, with a proven track record of delivering measurable impact
Exceptional storytelling skills to shape brand narratives across multiple channels
Strong data fluency to evaluate brand investments and extract actionable insights
Demonstrated ability to manage media relationships and secure earned coverage
Strong capabilities in content planning
Operates independently, with urgency and ownership
Native Japanese & Business English is mandatory
Nice to haves
Start-up experience is strongly preferred
App marketing 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, and Tokyo, 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スピークジャパンのチームは、謙虚さを大切にしながら、お互いを尊重し合い、協力して前に進む文化です。フラットで風通しの良い組織の中で、役職に関係なく率直に意見を交わし、良いアイデアはすぐに試してみるスピード感と柔軟さがあります。メンバーは自律的に動きながらもプロフェッショナル意識と高い成長意欲を持ち、少人数で大きな成果を目指しています。\n\n\n\nスピークのマーケターは、単に数字を追いかけるだけの存在ではありません。数値に表れないユーザーの感情、ブランドへの愛着、行動パターンまで捉え、最適なマーケティング戦略を描いています。\n\n\n\nクリエイティブ面でも、ブランドマネージャーやパフォーマンスマーケティングなど職種に関係なく、ターゲットやブランドへの深い理解をもとに、高い効果を発揮するマーケティングを実現しています。そして何より、プロダクトに強い愛情と誇りを持っています。\n\n\n\n「言語学習から学び方の変革を導く」というミッションに共感し、自ら考え、行動に移せる方。スピード感があり、自由度の高いスタートアップ環境で、大きな挑戦に取り組みたい方、ぜひご応募ください。\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nSpeak is looking for a Brand & PR Manager to help shape our identity and expand our reach in Japan. This role is both strategic and hands-on - you’ll define the roadmap for how we earn attention and trust in one of our most important markets.\n\nWe’re not looking for someone to \"coordinate.\" We're looking for someone to own the outcome: to lead, execute, and share back what we’re learning — so we get better, faster, together.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Own and evolve Speak’s brand in Japan\n\n - Build trust and awareness through Brand, PR/Media, and Owned Social\n\n - Define clear messaging and creative direction\n\n - Research, evaluate, and test channels with a data-first approach (e.g., TVCM, OOH, Digital)\n\n - Engage media, journalists, and a PR agency to earn exposure\n\n - Analyze brand performance and campaign impact using both qualitative and quantitative data\n\n - Plan and test localized, high-impact social content\n\n - Share findings and updates clearly with internal stakeholders\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 5+ years of experience in brand marketing / PR, with a proven track record of delivering measurable impact\n\n - Exceptional storytelling skills to shape brand narratives across multiple channels\n\n - Strong data fluency to evaluate brand investments and extract actionable insights\n\n - Demonstrated ability to manage media relationships and secure earned coverage\n\n - Strong capabilities in content planning\n\n - Operates independently, with urgency and ownership\n\n - Native Japanese & Business English is mandatory\n\nNice to haves\n\n - Start-up experience is strongly preferred\n\n - App marketing 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, and Tokyo, 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. In addition to generating qualified meetings, this role is a closing role, owning and closing transactional opportunities. 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
Own and close transactional deals end-to-end (pricing, light negotiation, order execution) following defined guardrails and approval paths
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
Comfortable closing transactional deals with light negotiation
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
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, and Tokyo, 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. In addition to generating qualified meetings, this role is a closing role, owning and closing transactional opportunities. 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 - Own and close transactional deals end-to-end (pricing, light negotiation, order execution) following defined guardrails and approval paths\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 - Comfortable closing transactional deals with light negotiation\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 - 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, and Tokyo, 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.
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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 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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":"52f3bd0e-9f00-4e1e-9701-20f5da5bf984","title":"Full-stack Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-04T16:50:55.116+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/52f3bd0e-9f00-4e1e-9701-20f5da5bf984","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/52f3bd0e-9f00-4e1e-9701-20f5da5bf984/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.
This is an extraordinary moment to join us. We're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change. We're operating in an agentic-first world, where the role of a builder is shifting from writing every line of code to designing systems that build, test, and improve themselves.
At Speak, you'll use AI agents as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow—helping you move faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the highest-impact problems. That means embracing ambiguity, iterating quickly, and working fluidly across functions—not just within a single discipline.
We're looking for a Full-stack Engineer who is excited to rethink how work gets done in an AI-native environment, and who want to help define what building looks like in this new paradigm.
This role spans the entire stack — while initial projects may lean frontend, expect to pivot into backend work as well, contributing to 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
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
4+ years of experience building highly polished web-based product experiences, including extensive experience with React
Experience using coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow — not just as autocomplete, but as active partners in designing, testing, and shipping.
You appreciate balancing doing things the \"right way\" but also can build things scrappily if necessary
You enjoy shipping things quickly and frequently
You're an excellent communicator and enjoy collaborating with people across all functions
We welcome applicants across all levels of engineering, including mid, senior, and staff.
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, and Tokyo, 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\nThis is an extraordinary moment to join us. We're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change https://www.speak.com/blog/agentic-engineering. We're operating in an agentic-first world, where the role of a builder is shifting from writing every line of code to designing systems that build, test, and improve themselves.\n\nAt Speak, you'll use AI agents as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow—helping you move faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the highest-impact problems. That means embracing ambiguity, iterating quickly, and working fluidly across functions—not just within a single discipline.\n\nWe're looking for a Full-stack Engineer who is excited to rethink how work gets done in an AI-native environment, and who want to help define what building looks like in this new paradigm.\n\nThis role spans the entire stack — while initial projects may lean frontend, expect to pivot into backend work as well, contributing to 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 - 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 - 4+ years of experience building highly polished web-based product experiences, including extensive experience with React\n\n - Experience using coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as core collaborators in your day-to-day workflow — not just as autocomplete, but as active partners in designing, testing, and shipping.\n\n - You appreciate balancing doing things the \"right way\" but also can build things scrappily if necessary\n\n - You enjoy shipping things quickly and frequently\n\n - You're an excellent communicator and enjoy collaborating with people across all functions\n\n - We welcome applicants across all levels of engineering, including mid, senior, and staff.\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, and Tokyo, 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":"ad2f9ef5-caf1-49e3-b9e7-b4076987a470","title":"Sales Development Representative - Japan","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Tokyo","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-06T17:32:44.750+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Tokyo","addressCountry":"Japan","addressLocality":"Tokyo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ad2f9ef5-caf1-49e3-b9e7-b4076987a470","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/ad2f9ef5-caf1-49e3-b9e7-b4076987a470/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. In addition to generating qualified meetings, this role is a closing role, owning and closing transactional opportunities. 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
Own and close transactional deals end-to-end (pricing, light negotiation, order execution) following defined guardrails and approval paths
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
Comfortable closing transactional deals with light negotiation
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
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, and Tokyo, 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/jp/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. In addition to generating qualified meetings, this role is a closing role, owning and closing transactional opportunities. 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 - Own and close transactional deals end-to-end (pricing, light negotiation, order execution) following defined guardrails and approval paths\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\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 - Comfortable closing transactional deals with light negotiation\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\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 - 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, and Tokyo, 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":"2026-05-05T05:38:15.668+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.
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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 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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":"6c787a64-2e33-4d2a-a919-23ebb0ccd270","title":"B2B Marketing Manager - Japan","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Tokyo","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-05T01:39:11.833+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Tokyo","addressCountry":"Japan","addressLocality":"Tokyo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/6c787a64-2e33-4d2a-a919-23ebb0ccd270","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/6c787a64-2e33-4d2a-a919-23ebb0ccd270/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.
To accelerate our B2B growth in Japan, we’re seeking a B2B Marketing Manager - Japan to drive targeted marketing campaigns, events, and strategic partnerships that fuel pipeline growth and deepen engagement with HR, L&D, and corporate training professionals.
This role is critical in scaling Speak’s regional marketing efforts — leading localization, demand generation, brand awareness, and partner engagement strategies that align closely with our go-to-market goals in Japan. As the dedicated owner of B2B marketing in Japan, you’ll play a pivotal role in building a scalable marketing engine that supports both new business acquisition and customer expansion.
You’ll partner cross-functionally with our Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams to deliver high-impact campaigns, localized content, and measurable results. This is a high-visibility, high-impact position for a strategic marketer who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-cultural environment and is passionate about driving growth through creativity and data.
Identify and build relationships with key HR/HRD partners, influencers, and associations in Japan to drive co-marketing and thought leadership initiatives that support lead generation goals.
Plan and execute offline events such as industry conferences, partner-led sessions, and proprietary Speak-hosted seminars, managing logistics, vendor coordination, and post-event nurturing.
Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success teams to create sales collateral, case studies, and campaigns that enhance customer engagement and retention.
Run localized digital campaigns and experiments across multiple channels, executing nurture workflows and ABM campaigns in HubSpot to move leads through the funnel.
Maintain and optimize the Japan B2B website for strong localization and conversion performance.
Track and analyze campaign results, share insights for ongoing optimization, and stay up to date on HR tech and B2B marketing trends in Japan.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
7–10 years of experience in B2B marketing, preferably in SaaS or tech.
Proven success in event planning, campaign execution, and cross-functional collaboration.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in Japanese.
Excellent project management and multitasking ability.
High attention to detail and results-driven mindset.
Business-level English proficiency.
Experience managing full funnel B2B Marketing campaigns
Familiarity with our specific tools: Hubspot, Figma, Google Analytics, and CRM systems.
Strong analytical mindset
Experience with HR, L&D, or education-related industries 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, and Tokyo, 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\nTo accelerate our B2B growth in Japan, we’re seeking a B2B Marketing Manager - Japan to drive targeted marketing campaigns, events, and strategic partnerships that fuel pipeline growth and deepen engagement with HR, L&D, and corporate training professionals.\n\nThis role is critical in scaling Speak’s regional marketing efforts — leading localization, demand generation, brand awareness, and partner engagement strategies that align closely with our go-to-market goals in Japan. As the dedicated owner of B2B marketing in Japan, you’ll play a pivotal role in building a scalable marketing engine that supports both new business acquisition and customer expansion.\n\nYou’ll partner cross-functionally with our Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams to deliver high-impact campaigns, localized content, and measurable results. This is a high-visibility, high-impact position for a strategic marketer who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-cultural environment and is passionate about driving growth through creativity and data.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Identify and build relationships with key HR/HRD partners, influencers, and associations in Japan to drive co-marketing and thought leadership initiatives that support lead generation goals.\n\n - Plan and execute offline events such as industry conferences, partner-led sessions, and proprietary Speak-hosted seminars, managing logistics, vendor coordination, and post-event nurturing.\n\n - Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success teams to create sales collateral, case studies, and campaigns that enhance customer engagement and retention.\n\n - Run localized digital campaigns and experiments across multiple channels, executing nurture workflows and ABM campaigns in HubSpot to move leads through the funnel.\n\n - Maintain and optimize the Japan B2B website for strong localization and conversion performance.\n\n - Track and analyze campaign results, share insights for ongoing optimization, and stay up to date on HR tech and B2B marketing trends in Japan.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BRING\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.\n\n - 7–10 years of experience in B2B marketing, preferably in SaaS or tech.\n\n - Proven success in event planning, campaign execution, and cross-functional collaboration.\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication skills in Japanese.\n\n - Excellent project management and multitasking ability.\n\n - High attention to detail and results-driven mindset.\n\n - Business-level English proficiency.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience managing full funnel B2B Marketing campaigns\n\n - Familiarity with our specific tools: Hubspot, Figma, Google Analytics, and CRM systems.\n\n - Strong analytical mindset\n\n - Experience with HR, L&D, or education-related industries 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, and Tokyo, 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":"30cfddbe-31c2-4ddb-a4eb-7696022271c2","title":"Marketing Analyst","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-07T00:35:11.339+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/30cfddbe-31c2-4ddb-a4eb-7696022271c2","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/30cfddbe-31c2-4ddb-a4eb-7696022271c2/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 Marketing Analyst with an emphasis on modeling and incrementality testing in the context of performance marketing. This role will work closely with members across marketing and product growth teams to help them understand the impact they are driving to Speak. A strong candidate will bring a combination of deep technical marketing expertise and a proven ability to provide actionable recommendations to maximize efficient user acquisition both in the US and across global markets.
Develop analyses, dashboards and reporting to measure the effectiveness of different marketing strategies
Manage reporting of key marketing metrics and spend data in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders such as finance and product
Develop and improve internal models for things like attribution, media mix, and LTV forecasting
Design and orchestrate incrementality tests to identify stronger causal relationships between campaigns and conversion
Serve as a strategic advisor to marketing leaders and other leadership, offering data-driven insights and recommendations for strategic planning and goal-setting
Minimum of 3-5 years using analytics to drive key business decisions, specifically in the context of marketing
Significant experience with SQL and visualization tools such as Amplitude or Mode
Proficiency in programming/scripting languages like Python and familiarity with included statistical packages
A deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression
A solid background in running marketing experiments to optimize the marketing funnel, including but not limited to landing page A/B tests, CRM sequencing, and messaging tests
Past experience as a performance or growth marketer is highly desirable
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, and Tokyo, 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 Marketing Analyst with an emphasis on modeling and incrementality testing in the context of performance marketing. This role will work closely with members across marketing and product growth teams to help them understand the impact they are driving to Speak. A strong candidate will bring a combination of deep technical marketing expertise and a proven ability to provide actionable recommendations to maximize efficient user acquisition both in the US and across global markets.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Develop analyses, dashboards and reporting to measure the effectiveness of different marketing strategies\n\n - Manage reporting of key marketing metrics and spend data in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders such as finance and product\n\n - Develop and improve internal models for things like attribution, media mix, and LTV forecasting\n\n - Design and orchestrate incrementality tests to identify stronger causal relationships between campaigns and conversion\n\n - Serve as a strategic advisor to marketing leaders and other leadership, offering data-driven insights and recommendations for strategic planning and goal-setting\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Minimum of 3-5 years using analytics to drive key business decisions, specifically in the context of marketing\n\n - Significant experience with SQL and visualization tools such as Amplitude or Mode\n\n - Proficiency in programming/scripting languages like Python and familiarity with included statistical packages\n\n - A deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression\n\n - A solid background in running marketing experiments to optimize the marketing funnel, including but not limited to landing page A/B tests, CRM sequencing, and messaging tests\n\n - Past experience as a performance or growth marketer is highly desirable\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, and Tokyo, 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":"f9992e77-c94b-4b96-983b-8c71786d34cc","title":"Sales Operations Manager - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-13T07:17:50.197+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/f9992e77-c94b-4b96-983b-8c71786d34cc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/f9992e77-c94b-4b96-983b-8c71786d34cc/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 this founding Operations Manager we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page.
We’re looking for a Sales Operations Manager to help scale S4B. This person will own the systems + process layer that sits between GTM strategy and day-to-day execution, so that Sales Leadership can focus on coaching, hiring, and selling while the team runs on predictable operating cadences.
This is a highly cross-functional role, partnering closely with Sales Leadership, Sales, Finance, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product. The ideal candidate is comfortable being both strategic and hands-on, and thrives in fast-moving environments where “good enough now” systems are built quickly and then improved iteratively. Though this is a full-time role (hybrid) based in Seoul, closest to the bulk of our Sales team members in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, your overall impact & scope will be global.
Run the sales ops cadence
Own weekly forecasting and pipeline rhythms with Sales leadership.
Build and maintain the weekly ops cadence and standard metrics.
Drive stage hygiene and clear definitions (what moves an opportunity from stage to stage, required fields, SLAs).
Own Sales reporting that leadership trusts
Build dashboards for pipeline coverage, forecast vs target, stage conversion, cycle time, and leading indicators.
Partner with Finance and RevOps on consistent definitions and auditability so reporting may be used for planning.
Ensure channel partner reporting consistent, timely and reliable.
Stabilize CRM inputs and enforce deal hygiene
Identify and clean the highest-impact data issues (owner, stage, amount, close date, product, region, source).
Create training guides, so adoption is durable.
Own Deal Desk workflow (process + routing)
Set up discounting guardrails and a clear approval matrix.
Standardize quote / order forms to support contracting, invoicing, and downstream handoffs.
Ensure the process is fast for the field, while still being controlled and auditable.
Support territory + account assignment and GTM programs
Run territory and account assignment processes.
Support lead routing logic and SLA monitoring.
Track monthly pipeline generation plans (coverage and gap-to-goal) and surface issues early.
5+ years in Sales Ops, BizOps, or similar roles supporting B2B GTM teams.
Experience building sales processes that scale: forecasting, pipeline inspection, territory/account assignment, deal desk, and handoffs.
Strong CRM operations and reporting experience (HubSpot, Salesforce, or similar): pipelines, permissions, required fields, lifecycle/stage definitions.
Strong track record of AI tool adoption and AI tool leverage building.
Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data and spreadsheets.
Track record of creating lightweight governance that is adopted (templates, runbooks, enablement, change management).
Clear and concise communicator in both English and Korean who can influence across cross-functional and cross-regional teams.
High ownership, strong judgment, and comfort working with sensitive data (forecast, comp, performance).
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, and Tokyo, 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 this founding Operations Manager 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\nWe’re looking for a Sales Operations Manager to help scale S4B. This person will own the systems + process layer that sits between GTM strategy and day-to-day execution, so that Sales Leadership can focus on coaching, hiring, and selling while the team runs on predictable operating cadences.\n\nThis is a highly cross-functional role, partnering closely with Sales Leadership, Sales, Finance, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product. The ideal candidate is comfortable being both strategic and hands-on, and thrives in fast-moving environments where “good enough now” systems are built quickly and then improved iteratively. Though this is a full-time role (hybrid) based in Seoul, closest to the bulk of our Sales team members in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, your overall impact & scope will be global.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\nRun the sales ops cadence\n\n - Own weekly forecasting and pipeline rhythms with Sales leadership.\n\n - Build and maintain the weekly ops cadence and standard metrics.\n\n - Drive stage hygiene and clear definitions (what moves an opportunity from stage to stage, required fields, SLAs).\n\nOwn Sales reporting that leadership trusts\n\n - Build dashboards for pipeline coverage, forecast vs target, stage conversion, cycle time, and leading indicators.\n\n - Partner with Finance and RevOps on consistent definitions and auditability so reporting may be used for planning.\n\n - Ensure channel partner reporting consistent, timely and reliable.\n\nStabilize CRM inputs and enforce deal hygiene\n\n - Identify and clean the highest-impact data issues (owner, stage, amount, close date, product, region, source).\n\n - Create training guides, so adoption is durable.\n\nOwn Deal Desk workflow (process + routing)\n\n - Set up discounting guardrails and a clear approval matrix.\n\n - Standardize quote / order forms to support contracting, invoicing, and downstream handoffs.\n\n - Ensure the process is fast for the field, while still being controlled and auditable.\n\nSupport territory + account assignment and GTM programs\n\n - Run territory and account assignment processes.\n\n - Support lead routing logic and SLA monitoring.\n\n - Track monthly pipeline generation plans (coverage and gap-to-goal) and surface issues early.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 5+ years in Sales Ops, BizOps, or similar roles supporting B2B GTM teams.\n\n - Experience building sales processes that scale: forecasting, pipeline inspection, territory/account assignment, deal desk, and handoffs.\n\n - Strong CRM operations and reporting experience (HubSpot, Salesforce, or similar): pipelines, permissions, required fields, lifecycle/stage definitions.\n\n - Strong track record of AI tool adoption and AI tool leverage building.\n\n - Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data and spreadsheets.\n\n - Track record of creating lightweight governance that is adopted (templates, runbooks, enablement, change management).\n\n - Clear and concise communicator in both English and Korean who can influence across cross-functional and cross-regional teams.\n\n - High ownership, strong judgment, and comfort working with sensitive data (forecast, comp, performance).\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, and Tokyo, 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":"1f1b275f-f5ee-41ee-a7aa-df9fe4ea12eb","title":"B2B Digital Marketer (Contract) - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-12T07:23:05.135+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/1f1b275f-f5ee-41ee-a7aa-df9fe4ea12eb","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/1f1b275f-f5ee-41ee-a7aa-df9fe4ea12eb/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 results-driven B2B Digital Marketer to join our team. This role will assist qualified pipeline growth through strategic lead generation across LinkedIn, Google, Naver, and other digital channels. You will manage campaign execution from initiation through to reporting, working cross-functionally with designers, content writers, internal marketing teams, sales, and external agency partners.
The ideal candidate is analytically minded, comfortable running A/B tests to continuously improve performance, and experienced in managing the full MQL-to-SQL journey. Korean language skills are required, as this role supports global market with focus on Korea. For “rest of the world” markets, this role will execute with the support of local translators.
This is a 12-month contractor position. Depending on performance & business needs, there may be an extension.
Set up and execute B2B lead generation campaigns across LinkedIn, Google/Naver SEM, display, and other relevant digital channels targeting both MQL and SQL audiences
Manage end-to-end campaign operations including asset trafficking, tracking setup (UTMs, pixels, tags), and pre-launch QA
Execute A/B tests across targeting parameters, ad copy, creative assets, landing pages, and channels to continuously improve lead quality and conversion rates
Coordinate with translators to adapt and localize campaigns for APAC and other target markets (i.e. LATAM)
Work closely with designers and content writers to develop high-performing lead generation assets including whitepapers, gated content, webinars, landing pages, and image/video creatives
Provide performance-driven feedback on creative assets to improve engagement and conversion metrics
Review landing pages and user flows to ensure accuracy, brand alignment, and conversion readiness
Support the setup and monitoring of A/B tests on landing pages and creative assets
Build, maintain, and update campaign dashboards and KPI reports across all active platforms
Collect, validate, and organize performance data for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews
Analyze funnel metrics (CTR, CVR, CPL, MQL-to-SQL conversion rates, drop-off points) to surface trends and actionable insights
Prepare clear performance summaries and optimization recommendations for internal stakeholders
Support budget tracking, PO processing, vendor invoicing, and cost reconciliation
Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial documentation to support monthly and quarterly reporting cycles
3–5 years of hands-on experience in B2B digital marketing, with a focus on lead generation and performance marketing
Proven experience running paid campaigns on LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Naver, and Google Ads (SEM)
Strong understanding of the B2B funnel and MQL/SQL definitions and handoff processes
Experience with A/B testing methodologies across targeting, content, and creative
Proficiency in analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Salesforce, HubSpot, Looker, or equivalent) with strong data literacy
Excellent communication and project coordination skills
Korean & English language proficiency skills
Experience supporting APAC or multi-market campaigns with localization
Familiarity with marketing automation platforms (HubSpot or similar)
Experience working with gated content strategies: whitepapers, webinars, lead magnets
Background collaborating with creative teams (designers, copywriters) in a performance marketing context
Experience coordinating with external digital agencies
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, and Tokyo, 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 ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a results-driven B2B Digital Marketer to join our team. This role will assist qualified pipeline growth through strategic lead generation across LinkedIn, Google, Naver, and other digital channels. You will manage campaign execution from initiation through to reporting, working cross-functionally with designers, content writers, internal marketing teams, sales, and external agency partners.\n\nThe ideal candidate is analytically minded, comfortable running A/B tests to continuously improve performance, and experienced in managing the full MQL-to-SQL journey. Korean language skills are required, as this role supports global market with focus on Korea. For “rest of the world” markets, this role will execute with the support of local translators.\n\nThis is a 12-month contractor position. Depending on performance & business needs, there may be an extension.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n\n\n\n1. LEAD GENERATION & CAMPAIGN EXECUTION\n\n - Set up and execute B2B lead generation campaigns across LinkedIn, Google/Naver SEM, display, and other relevant digital channels targeting both MQL and SQL audiences\n\n - Manage end-to-end campaign operations including asset trafficking, tracking setup (UTMs, pixels, tags), and pre-launch QA\n\n - Execute A/B tests across targeting parameters, ad copy, creative assets, landing pages, and channels to continuously improve lead quality and conversion rates\n\n - Coordinate with translators to adapt and localize campaigns for APAC and other target markets (i.e. LATAM)\n\n\n2. CONTENT & ASSET COLLABORATION\n\n - Work closely with designers and content writers to develop high-performing lead generation assets including whitepapers, gated content, webinars, landing pages, and image/video creatives\n\n - Provide performance-driven feedback on creative assets to improve engagement and conversion metrics\n\n - Review landing pages and user flows to ensure accuracy, brand alignment, and conversion readiness\n\n - Support the setup and monitoring of A/B tests on landing pages and creative assets\n\n\n3. PERFORMANCE REPORTING & DATA ANALYSIS\n\n - Build, maintain, and update campaign dashboards and KPI reports across all active platforms\n\n - Collect, validate, and organize performance data for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews\n\n - Analyze funnel metrics (CTR, CVR, CPL, MQL-to-SQL conversion rates, drop-off points) to surface trends and actionable insights\n\n - Prepare clear performance summaries and optimization recommendations for internal stakeholders\n\n\n4. BUDGET & ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS\n\n - Support budget tracking, PO processing, vendor invoicing, and cost reconciliation\n\n - Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial documentation to support monthly and quarterly reporting cycles\n\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 3–5 years of hands-on experience in B2B digital marketing, with a focus on lead generation and performance marketing\n\n - Proven experience running paid campaigns on LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Naver, and Google Ads (SEM)\n\n - Strong understanding of the B2B funnel and MQL/SQL definitions and handoff processes\n\n - Experience with A/B testing methodologies across targeting, content, and creative\n\n - Proficiency in analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Salesforce, HubSpot, Looker, or equivalent) with strong data literacy\n\n - Excellent communication and project coordination skills\n\n - Korean & English language proficiency skills\n\n\n\n\nNICE-TO-HAVE'S\n\n - Experience supporting APAC or multi-market campaigns with localization\n\n - Familiarity with marketing automation platforms (HubSpot or similar)\n\n - Experience working with gated content strategies: whitepapers, webinars, lead magnets\n\n - Background collaborating with creative teams (designers, copywriters) in a performance marketing context\n\n - Experience coordinating with external digital agencies\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, and Tokyo, 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":"a70a6e73-98d0-4c81-aed8-a9349243a380","title":"B2B Content Marketing Specialist - Korea","department":"B2B","team":"B2B","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-12T07:23:00.876+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a70a6e73-98d0-4c81-aed8-a9349243a380","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a70a6e73-98d0-4c81-aed8-a9349243a380/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 B2B Content Marketing Specialist who will execute our content marketing strategy across Korea and the broader APAC region, building a high-impact content engine that drives awareness, pipeline, and product engagement for Speak for Business. With the support of the B2B Marketing Lead, you'll execute content-led demand generation campaigns that resonate with our target audience while aligning with global go-to-market initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of content, sales, and product — requiring someone who can execute with precision.
As a fluent English and Korean speaker, you'll create content natively in both languages and collaborate with local translators and AI tools to adapt materials for other global markets.
Content Marketing & Demand Generation
Drive regional content marketing for Korea and APAC, aligned with global GTM priorities
Develop and manage a content calendar across blog, social, email, and event channels with a focus on clarity, consistency, and local relevance
Launch and optimize email nurture campaigns; repurpose high-performing assets across formats and channels
Sales Enablement & Product Marketing
Create a full range of B2B sales and marketing materials: pitch decks, one-pagers, brochures, case studies, user guides, company overviews, and event presentations
Work closely with the product team to develop positioning and materials the sales team can use in the field
Partner with the sales team to understand what they need, deliver timely assets, and strengthen their ability to close deals
Provide the right content for each stage of the sales cycle — from event invitations and intro decks to detailed case studies and competitive materials
Gated Content & Lead Generation
Develop high-value gated content (e.g., industry reports, whitepapers, guides) targeted at HR professionals and corporate L&D decision-makers
Conduct independent research and produce original insights that position the brand as a thought leader in the English language learning and HR space
Create landing page copy and campaign assets that convert
Digital & SEO Content
Write and manage SEO-optimized blog content that drives organic traffic and builds topical authority
Collaborate closely with the Digital Marketing Manager to develop creative assets, ad copy, and landing page content for paid and organic campaigns
Develop email campaign content and sequences that nurture leads through the funnel
Bilingual Content & Localization
Produce content natively in both Korean and English, ensuring brand voice and messaging are consistent across languages
Work with local translators and AI tools to adapt content for other APAC markets
Ensure all content reflects local cultural nuance while staying aligned with global brand standards
3+ years of B2B marketing experience with a strong background in creating marketing content and sales materials
Fluent in both Korean and English (written and spoken) — you will be creating content in both languages
Strong copywriting skills: clear, concise, and adapted to brand voice
Experience with email marketing, nurture campaigns, and content strategy
Comfortable working cross-functionally with sales, product, and marketing teams
Proactive, accountable, and able to manage multiple projects independently
Experience in B2B marketing, preferably in SaaS or EdTech
Understanding of HR, corporate training, or L&D markets — or genuine curiosity and willingness to become a subject matter expert
SEO knowledge and experience writing content for organic search
Experience designing or directing content assets such as PPTs, brochures, and guides
Interest in English language learning and the education market
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, and Tokyo, 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 ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a B2B Content Marketing Specialist who will execute our content marketing strategy across Korea and the broader APAC region, building a high-impact content engine that drives awareness, pipeline, and product engagement for Speak for Business. With the support of the B2B Marketing Lead, you'll execute content-led demand generation campaigns that resonate with our target audience while aligning with global go-to-market initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of content, sales, and product — requiring someone who can execute with precision.\n\nAs a fluent English and Korean speaker, you'll create content natively in both languages and collaborate with local translators and AI tools to adapt materials for other global markets.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\nContent Marketing & Demand Generation\n\n - Drive regional content marketing for Korea and APAC, aligned with global GTM priorities\n\n - Develop and manage a content calendar across blog, social, email, and event channels with a focus on clarity, consistency, and local relevance\n\n - Launch and optimize email nurture campaigns; repurpose high-performing assets across formats and channels\n\nSales Enablement & Product Marketing\n\n - Create a full range of B2B sales and marketing materials: pitch decks, one-pagers, brochures, case studies, user guides, company overviews, and event presentations\n\n - Work closely with the product team to develop positioning and materials the sales team can use in the field\n\n - Partner with the sales team to understand what they need, deliver timely assets, and strengthen their ability to close deals\n\n - Provide the right content for each stage of the sales cycle — from event invitations and intro decks to detailed case studies and competitive materials\n\nGated Content & Lead Generation\n\n - Develop high-value gated content (e.g., industry reports, whitepapers, guides) targeted at HR professionals and corporate L&D decision-makers\n\n - Conduct independent research and produce original insights that position the brand as a thought leader in the English language learning and HR space\n\n - Create landing page copy and campaign assets that convert\n\nDigital & SEO Content\n\n - Write and manage SEO-optimized blog content that drives organic traffic and builds topical authority\n\n - Collaborate closely with the Digital Marketing Manager to develop creative assets, ad copy, and landing page content for paid and organic campaigns\n\n - Develop email campaign content and sequences that nurture leads through the funnel\n\nBilingual Content & Localization\n\n - Produce content natively in both Korean and English, ensuring brand voice and messaging are consistent across languages\n\n - Work with local translators and AI tools to adapt content for other APAC markets\n\n - Ensure all content reflects local cultural nuance while staying aligned with global brand standards\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 3+ years of B2B marketing experience with a strong background in creating marketing content and sales materials\n\n - Fluent in both Korean and English (written and spoken) — you will be creating content in both languages\n\n - Strong copywriting skills: clear, concise, and adapted to brand voice\n\n - Experience with email marketing, nurture campaigns, and content strategy\n\n - Comfortable working cross-functionally with sales, product, and marketing teams\n\n - Proactive, accountable, and able to manage multiple projects independently\n\n\n\n\nNICE-TO-HAVE'S\n\n - Experience in B2B marketing, preferably in SaaS or EdTech\n\n - Understanding of HR, corporate training, or L&D markets — or genuine curiosity and willingness to become a subject matter expert\n\n - SEO knowledge and experience writing content for organic search\n\n - Experience designing or directing content assets such as PPTs, brochures, and guides\n\n - Interest in English language learning and the education market\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, and Tokyo, 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":"bcb8f98d-03dd-4c82-bea4-4a155c8377f9","title":"APAC People Ops Generalist - Korea","department":"People","team":"People Ops","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-04T11:00:13.077+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/bcb8f98d-03dd-4c82-bea4-4a155c8377f9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/bcb8f98d-03dd-4c82-bea4-4a155c8377f9/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 scaling fast across APAC. We've more than doubled our team across Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in just over a year, with continued hiring through 2026. Our People Ops team runs lean, and we're adding a Generalist to strengthen our operational capacity across all three markets.
You'll manage key aspects of the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, contracts, HRIS, and multi-market compliance), improve and document the processes that support it, and over time help the team turn what works into scalable infrastructure. We're at the stage where the processes that supported a smaller team need to become the systems that scale across three markets, and you'll be a key part of making that happen alongside the rest of the team.
This role is meaningful and hands-on. You'll work across three legal entities, solve real problems that affect how people experience Speak in APAC, and contribute to building something that grows with the company. If you care about getting details right and want to do impactful work at a company that's still early enough to shape, this is a strong fit.
Employee lifecycle operations and management
Run the full FTE lifecycle across KR, JP, and TW: onboarding, contracts, probation, offboarding, HRIS, and more - maintaining accurate employee data across the three entities with by conducting audits and resolving gaps
Track multi-market compliance across the region: flag regulatory changes with a recommended action, and keep the handbook up-to-date
Be the go-to resource for employees across the region on lifecycle and People Ops questions
Partner closely with the Global People Ops team to keep global processes aligned while reflecting local nuance across APAC markets
Benefits and program support
Administer local & market-specific benefits and perks (e.g., health checkups, insurance enrollment, local perks)
Help run People programs operationally: engagement surveys, performance review cycles, and other recurring processes
Process improvement and documentation
Map existing workflows across the three markets, identify where they break or slow down, and propose improvements together with the team
Help build and maintain the APAC People Ops SOP and playbook library. The team sets direction together; you build, document, and keep them current
Help design and implement workflow improvements using AI and automation (contract generation, onboarding triggers, data entry, intake systems) to reduce manual load and increase team capacity
Collect feedback from employees and partner teams to make sure improvements focus on areas that drive the most impact
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
4~6 years of experience in people operations, HR, or related field
You break down ambiguous problems, build a plan, and see it through. You manage projects, not just tasks
You're a strong communicator with high EQ. You navigate sensitive conversations, align multiple stakeholders, and adapt your style to the audience
You prioritize well and make trade-offs confidently, especially when resources are limited and everything feels urgent
People trust you with sensitive information and know you'll follow through
You're curious about AI and automation, and you pick up new tools quickly
You can operate without clear direction in a fast-moving environment
You're comfortable communicating in English for day-to-day collaboration and basic business writing, as you'll work closely with our global team
You're based in Seoul and available for hybrid in-office work
You care about getting the details right, but you don't lose sight of what actually matters
You're energized by building things that don't exist yet
You stay calm when things get busy and bring clarity to ambiguous situations
You enjoy working across cultures and contexts, and you adapt your approach rather than defaulting to one-size-fits-all
You notice when something is broken and fix it without being asked
You have experience working across multiple legal entities or countries
You've built or significantly improved an HR process or SOP from scratch
You've worked at a startup or high-growth company before
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, and Tokyo, 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 scaling fast across APAC. We've more than doubled our team across Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in just over a year, with continued hiring through 2026. Our People Ops team runs lean, and we're adding a Generalist to strengthen our operational capacity across all three markets.\n\nYou'll manage key aspects of the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, contracts, HRIS, and multi-market compliance), improve and document the processes that support it, and over time help the team turn what works into scalable infrastructure. We're at the stage where the processes that supported a smaller team need to become the systems that scale across three markets, and you'll be a key part of making that happen alongside the rest of the team.\n\nThis role is meaningful and hands-on. You'll work across three legal entities, solve real problems that affect how people experience Speak in APAC, and contribute to building something that grows with the company. If you care about getting details right and want to do impactful work at a company that's still early enough to shape, this is a strong fit.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\nEmployee lifecycle operations and management\n\n - Run the full FTE lifecycle across KR, JP, and TW: onboarding, contracts, probation, offboarding, HRIS, and more - maintaining accurate employee data across the three entities with by conducting audits and resolving gaps\n\n - Track multi-market compliance across the region: flag regulatory changes with a recommended action, and keep the handbook up-to-date\n\n - Be the go-to resource for employees across the region on lifecycle and People Ops questions\n\n - Partner closely with the Global People Ops team to keep global processes aligned while reflecting local nuance across APAC markets\n\nBenefits and program support\n\n - Administer local & market-specific benefits and perks (e.g., health checkups, insurance enrollment, local perks)\n\n - Help run People programs operationally: engagement surveys, performance review cycles, and other recurring processes\n\nProcess improvement and documentation\n\n - Map existing workflows across the three markets, identify where they break or slow down, and propose improvements together with the team\n\n - Help build and maintain the APAC People Ops SOP and playbook library. The team sets direction together; you build, document, and keep them current\n\n - Help design and implement workflow improvements using AI and automation (contract generation, onboarding triggers, data entry, intake systems) to reduce manual load and increase team capacity\n\n - Collect feedback from employees and partner teams to make sure improvements focus on areas that drive the most impact\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nIf you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.\n\n - 4~6 years of experience in people operations, HR, or related field\n\n - You break down ambiguous problems, build a plan, and see it through. You manage projects, not just tasks\n\n - You're a strong communicator with high EQ. You navigate sensitive conversations, align multiple stakeholders, and adapt your style to the audience\n\n - You prioritize well and make trade-offs confidently, especially when resources are limited and everything feels urgent\n\n - People trust you with sensitive information and know you'll follow through\n\n - You're curious about AI and automation, and you pick up new tools quickly\n\n - You can operate without clear direction in a fast-moving environment\n\n - You're comfortable communicating in English for day-to-day collaboration and basic business writing, as you'll work closely with our global team\n\n - You're based in Seoul and available for hybrid in-office work\n\n\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE\n\n - You care about getting the details right, but you don't lose sight of what actually matters\n\n - You're energized by building things that don't exist yet\n\n - You stay calm when things get busy and bring clarity to ambiguous situations\n\n - You enjoy working across cultures and contexts, and you adapt your approach rather than defaulting to one-size-fits-all\n\n - You notice when something is broken and fix it without being asked\n\n\n\n\nBONUS POINTS:\n\n - You have experience working across multiple legal entities or countries\n\n - You've built or significantly improved an HR process or SOP from scratch\n\n - You've worked at a startup or high-growth company before\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, and Tokyo, 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":"237962a4-fba1-4fd8-9e43-1dfc26490213","title":"Lead Product Analyst","department":"Product","team":"Analytics","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-11T00:55:54.650+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/237962a4-fba1-4fd8-9e43-1dfc26490213","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/237962a4-fba1-4fd8-9e43-1dfc26490213/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 person who is passionate about and fully dedicated to learning about how users engage with our apps. This individual will be critical for helping create hypotheses and finding insights that allow the team to build a better product and grow the business. Our fourth product analytics hire will grow our data-driven culture at Speak by empowering team members to use data in their respective roles. In this role, you will own specific verticals within analytics and testing infrastructure and be a key thought partner to leadership and the whole product development organization.
Drive product strategy by proposing and conducting quantitative research into key user behaviors and trends, in partnership with product managers, engineers, designers, and other team members
Design new features and inform the product roadmap through analysis, e.g., help define metrics for every stage of the user journey (onboarding, conversion, engagement, retention)
Build and maintain core company data events and tables
Build and maintain company-level product and business dashboards
Design and analyze A/B tests, market-based tests, etc. and conduct other forms of causal inference to help us rigorously learn about our users
Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights
5-10 years of experience using analytics to drive key product business decisions
Significant experience with SQL
Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to analytical tasks such as data synthesis, hypothesis generation, and productivity acceleration
Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression and decision trees
Solid background in running multivariate product experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow
Proven track record of working autonomously and proactively engaging with business stakeholders
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, and Tokyo, 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 person who is passionate about and fully dedicated to learning about how users engage with our apps. This individual will be critical for helping create hypotheses and finding insights that allow the team to build a better product and grow the business. Our fourth product analytics hire will grow our data-driven culture at Speak by empowering team members to use data in their respective roles. In this role, you will own specific verticals within analytics and testing infrastructure and be a key thought partner to leadership and the whole product development organization.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Drive product strategy by proposing and conducting quantitative research into key user behaviors and trends, in partnership with product managers, engineers, designers, and other team members\n\n - Design new features and inform the product roadmap through analysis, e.g., help define metrics for every stage of the user journey (onboarding, conversion, engagement, retention)\n\n - Build and maintain core company data events and tables\n\n - Build and maintain company-level product and business dashboards\n\n - Design and analyze A/B tests, market-based tests, etc. and conduct other forms of causal inference to help us rigorously learn about our users\n\n - Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 5-10 years of experience using analytics to drive key product business decisions\n\n - Significant experience with SQL\n\n - Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to analytical tasks such as data synthesis, hypothesis generation, and productivity acceleration\n\n - Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression and decision trees\n\n - Solid background in running multivariate product experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow\n\n - Proven track record of working autonomously and proactively engaging with business stakeholders\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, and Tokyo, 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":"d935edff-bb35-45e1-9b02-5ff7636dbff1","title":"Strategic Finance","department":"Operations","team":"Finance","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-26T20:35:11.361+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d935edff-bb35-45e1-9b02-5ff7636dbff1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/d935edff-bb35-45e1-9b02-5ff7636dbff1/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.
Our Strategic Finance team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, driving financial planning, forecasting, and cross-functional partnership. The team guides critical decisions through rigorous analysis and collaboration. We're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead who will partner with business leaders across the company to drive growth, surface insight, and shape investment decisions.
This is a high-impact role on a lean team: you'll operate independently, bring structure to ambiguous problems, and influence senior leaders with clear financial narratives. You'll partner closely with senior leadership to strengthen executive-level visibility into financial performance, investment decisions, and growth opportunities.
Develop financial models and economic frameworks to enable product vision and strategy; evaluate strategic product investments and enable strategic tradeoff decisions
Own the financial strategy and analysis for new product development
Build unit economics by segment, vertical, and motion to inform pricing, packaging, and where we lean in
Support capital allocation decisions by evaluating returns on product investments, pricing changes, and operational initiatives
Partner with go to market leadership to drive sales motions across all distribution channels, including global tiered consumer and enterprise channels
Provide strategic guidance and insight to drive end‑to‑end long‑range planning, including assumptions, scenarios, pressure‑testing, and executive storytelling
Surface insights to leadership by translating data into recommendations that shape product and company strategy
Synthesize complex analyses into clear narratives and confidently communicate recommendations to leadership and executive stakeholders
Advance financial reporting processes by leaning into AI tools and workflows and enhanced dashboards
6–9 years in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role — with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred
Advanced financial modeling skills to drive forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, and the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch with incomplete or complex data
Strong AI tool enablement, able to work with frontier models and validate the fidelity of the output
Direct experience supporting full planning cycles including long range planning, annual planning, quarterly re-forecasts, and board / investor-facing materials
Familiarity with outcomes-based modeling and product led growth
Fluency in SaaS and enterprise metrics to enable go to market motions
Strong written communication in order to provide clear narratives to leadership and external stakeholders
High ownership and high integrity, able to run processes end to end with agency and autonomy
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, and Tokyo, 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\nOur Strategic Finance team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, driving financial planning, forecasting, and cross-functional partnership. The team guides critical decisions through rigorous analysis and collaboration. We're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead who will partner with business leaders across the company to drive growth, surface insight, and shape investment decisions.\n\nThis is a high-impact role on a lean team: you'll operate independently, bring structure to ambiguous problems, and influence senior leaders with clear financial narratives. You'll partner closely with senior leadership to strengthen executive-level visibility into financial performance, investment decisions, and growth opportunities.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Develop financial models and economic frameworks to enable product vision and strategy; evaluate strategic product investments and enable strategic tradeoff decisions\n\n - Own the financial strategy and analysis for new product development\n\n - Build unit economics by segment, vertical, and motion to inform pricing, packaging, and where we lean in\n\n - Support capital allocation decisions by evaluating returns on product investments, pricing changes, and operational initiatives\n\n - Partner with go to market leadership to drive sales motions across all distribution channels, including global tiered consumer and enterprise channels\n\n - Provide strategic guidance and insight to drive end‑to‑end long‑range planning, including assumptions, scenarios, pressure‑testing, and executive storytelling\n\n - Surface insights to leadership by translating data into recommendations that shape product and company strategy\n\n - Synthesize complex analyses into clear narratives and confidently communicate recommendations to leadership and executive stakeholders\n\n - Advance financial reporting processes by leaning into AI tools and workflows and enhanced dashboards\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6–9 years in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role — with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred\n\n - Advanced financial modeling skills to drive forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, and the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch with incomplete or complex data\n\n - Strong AI tool enablement, able to work with frontier models and validate the fidelity of the output\n\n - Direct experience supporting full planning cycles including long range planning, annual planning, quarterly re-forecasts, and board / investor-facing materials\n\n - Familiarity with outcomes-based modeling and product led growth\n\n - Fluency in SaaS and enterprise metrics to enable go to market motions\n\n - Strong written communication in order to provide clear narratives to leadership and external stakeholders\n\n - High ownership and high integrity, able to run processes end to end with agency and autonomy\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, and Tokyo, 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":"cb8a6f16-d585-40ae-9a48-162624932480","title":"Head of Marketing - Korea","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seoul","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-01T10:45:06.163+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Seoul","addressCountry":"South Korea","addressLocality":"Seoul"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/cb8a6f16-d585-40ae-9a48-162624932480","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/cb8a6f16-d585-40ae-9a48-162624932480/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.
As the Head of Marketing at Speak Korea (supporting our B2C business), you will be responsible for continuing to grow our largest market, with full ownership over the marketing execution and strategy. Your team will consist of Brand, Partnership, and Growth Marketing, as well as an in-house team of Marketing Designers.
At Speak, we believe strongly in the idea of having a strong local marketing leader who can autonomously execute our strategy in a way that is super localized to the market. As a result of this, it’s crucial this person has a strong relationship with our San Francisco HQ and is able to build strong trust across different functional teams.
This role is extremely entrepreneurial and therefore it’s likely the successful candidate will have previously started a company or held C-level titles in the past. Speak is the #1 language learning app in Korea - and you get to continue its legacy. Come join and lead this small-yet-mighty team of marketers and marketing leaders, alongside a slightly larger team of 50+ professionals based in Speak Korea who are all passionate, well-skilled, and low-ego.
Identify the biggest growth opportunities and lead strategic initiatives for the Korean market, from Marketing and Business perspectives
Own the performance of the Korean B2C market across all key metrics (LTV, ARR, key accounts, # of subscribers, brand awareness, etc.)
Formulate a cohesive market strategy alongside B2B and spearhead the effort to push the Korean market to the next growth stage
Manage and oversee our Speak Korea marketing teams (Brand, Growth, Partnership, and Design)
Communicate local product needs, working closely with CX, Engineering, Product, and Design
Build strong relationships with other major markets like Japan and Taiwan
Coach, mentor, and develop team members to achieve business objectives and ensure team motivation
At least 10 years of marketing experience with leadership, ideally in tech startups
Must be fluent in verbal and written communication skills in both English and Korean, including the ability to cultivate internal and external relationships
Strong track record of achieving business goals and exceeding expectations
Experience being involved in high-growth, high-impact projects
Comfort with navigating through ambiguity, with appreciation for creative discoveries along the way
Strong leadership and coaching ability to build high-performance teams
Passion and alignment in Speak’s mission - in changing the way people learn, starting with language
Ability to travel as needed, most often to San Francisco HQ
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, and Tokyo, 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 the Head of Marketing at Speak Korea (supporting our B2C business), you will be responsible for continuing to grow our largest market, with full ownership over the marketing execution and strategy. Your team will consist of Brand, Partnership, and Growth Marketing, as well as an in-house team of Marketing Designers.\n\nAt Speak, we believe strongly in the idea of having a strong local marketing leader who can autonomously execute our strategy in a way that is super localized to the market. As a result of this, it’s crucial this person has a strong relationship with our San Francisco HQ and is able to build strong trust across different functional teams.\n\nThis role is extremely entrepreneurial and therefore it’s likely the successful candidate will have previously started a company or held C-level titles in the past. Speak is the #1 language learning app in Korea - and you get to continue its legacy. Come join and lead this small-yet-mighty team of marketers and marketing leaders, alongside a slightly larger team of 50+ professionals based in Speak Korea who are all passionate, well-skilled, and low-ego.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Identify the biggest growth opportunities and lead strategic initiatives for the Korean market, from Marketing and Business perspectives\n\n - Own the performance of the Korean B2C market across all key metrics (LTV, ARR, key accounts, # of subscribers, brand awareness, etc.)\n\n - Formulate a cohesive market strategy alongside B2B and spearhead the effort to push the Korean market to the next growth stage\n\n - Manage and oversee our Speak Korea marketing teams (Brand, Growth, Partnership, and Design)\n\n - Communicate local product needs, working closely with CX, Engineering, Product, and Design\n\n - Build strong relationships with other major markets like Japan and Taiwan\n\n - Coach, mentor, and develop team members to achieve business objectives and ensure team motivation\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - At least 10 years of marketing experience with leadership, ideally in tech startups\n\n - Must be fluent in verbal and written communication skills in both English and Korean, including the ability to cultivate internal and external relationships\n\n - Strong track record of achieving business goals and exceeding expectations\n\n - Experience being involved in high-growth, high-impact projects\n\n - Comfort with navigating through ambiguity, with appreciation for creative discoveries along the way\n\n - Strong leadership and coaching ability to build high-performance teams\n\n - Passion and alignment in Speak’s mission - in changing the way people learn, starting with language\n\n - Ability to travel as needed, most often to San Francisco HQ\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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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":"5deeef02-1cd1-4a3c-903f-8542d6afce70","title":"Machine Learning Engineer, Assessments","department":"Engineering","team":"Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-08T00:10:39.023+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/5deeef02-1cd1-4a3c-903f-8542d6afce70","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/5deeef02-1cd1-4a3c-903f-8542d6afce70/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 an ML Engineer, Assessments to help build best-in-class assessment systems across multiple products (Speak for Business, B2C, and new surfaces). You will work in a tight loop with our Assessment Design Lead (Content/Learning Design), Machine Learning, Product, and Engineering to turn assessment constructs and rubrics into reliable, scalable scoring + feedback systems.
This role owns the implementation, deployment, and ongoing quality of our assessment algorithms and ML systems. While there is immediate need to improve and expand production assessments, this work is also building a platform capability that can be reused across the app.
Ship and own assessment ML systems end-to-end
Build, deploy, and maintain scoring models/pipelines (feature extraction → model training → inference → feedback generation)
Own monitoring, regression tests, and ongoing iteration to maintain accuracy targets
Define and operationalize evaluation
Implement validation/evaluation frameworks for assessments, including metrics, test sets, and offline/online analysis
Translate assessment requirements into measurable acceptance criteria and guardrails
Partner deeply with the Assessment Design Lead
Co-develop the strategy, together with the Content team, to grow assessments into a core platform at Speak
Work in a tight weekly loop to deliver incremental improvement
Drive near-term delivery across products
Stand up or improve summative assessments (spoken language ability) and bring them reliably to production
Prototype and validate formative assessment approaches to measure improvement over weeks/months
Support data and labeling strategy
Help define data needs for training/evaluation (including psychometric measurement needs)
Build or improve pipelines that support label collection and analysis (especially for efficacy studies)
Domain expertise in spoken language proficiency assessment (linguistics, applied linguistics, pedagogy, or equivalent experience)
Strong experience designing and running evaluation + validation for assessment/scoring systems, and tailoring approaches to a specific product use case
4+ years building automatic proficiency assessment systems (or equivalent depth in closely related scoring/evaluation domains)
PhD is helpful but not required
Proven ability to ship ML models to production (not only research), including reliability, monitoring, and iteration
Strong generalist ML/analysis skills (statistics, Python, PyTorch/model training)
Ability to operate cross-functionally and communicate clearly with non-technical partners (Content/LD, PM, leadership)
Experience with speech/audio ML
Experience with psychometrics concepts (reliability/validity, calibration)
This role is designed to be highly collaborative with the Assessment Design Lead. Success depends on a tight loop where constructs/rubrics and model outputs co-evolve — not a sequential handoff.
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, and Tokyo, 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 an ML Engineer, Assessments to help build best-in-class assessment systems across multiple products (Speak for Business, B2C, and new surfaces). You will work in a tight loop with our Assessment Design Lead (Content/Learning Design), Machine Learning, Product, and Engineering to turn assessment constructs and rubrics into reliable, scalable scoring + feedback systems.\n\nThis role owns the implementation, deployment, and ongoing quality of our assessment algorithms and ML systems. While there is immediate need to improve and expand production assessments, this work is also building a platform capability that can be reused across the app.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Ship and own assessment ML systems end-to-end\n \n - Build, deploy, and maintain scoring models/pipelines (feature extraction → model training → inference → feedback generation)\n \n - Own monitoring, regression tests, and ongoing iteration to maintain accuracy targets\n\n - Define and operationalize evaluation\n \n - Implement validation/evaluation frameworks for assessments, including metrics, test sets, and offline/online analysis\n \n - Translate assessment requirements into measurable acceptance criteria and guardrails\n\n - Partner deeply with the Assessment Design Lead\n \n - Co-develop the strategy, together with the Content team, to grow assessments into a core platform at Speak\n \n - Work in a tight weekly loop to deliver incremental improvement\n\n - Drive near-term delivery across products\n \n - Stand up or improve summative assessments (spoken language ability) and bring them reliably to production\n \n - Prototype and validate formative assessment approaches to measure improvement over weeks/months\n\n - Support data and labeling strategy\n \n - Help define data needs for training/evaluation (including psychometric measurement needs)\n \n - Build or improve pipelines that support label collection and analysis (especially for efficacy studies)\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Domain expertise in spoken language proficiency assessment (linguistics, applied linguistics, pedagogy, or equivalent experience)\n\n - Strong experience designing and running evaluation + validation for assessment/scoring systems, and tailoring approaches to a specific product use case\n\n - 4+ years building automatic proficiency assessment systems (or equivalent depth in closely related scoring/evaluation domains)\n \n - PhD is helpful but not required\n\n - Proven ability to ship ML models to production (not only research), including reliability, monitoring, and iteration\n\n - Strong generalist ML/analysis skills (statistics, Python, PyTorch/model training)\n\n - Ability to operate cross-functionally and communicate clearly with non-technical partners (Content/LD, PM, leadership)\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience with speech/audio ML\n\n - Experience with psychometrics concepts (reliability/validity, calibration)\n\n\n\n\nHOW WE WORK (COLLABORATION EXPECTATIONS)\n\nThis role is designed to be highly collaborative with the Assessment Design Lead. Success depends on a tight loop where constructs/rubrics and model outputs co-evolve — not a sequential handoff.\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, and Tokyo, 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":"602805d6-6dd1-46f5-aabc-027ed50ffb05","title":"Influencer Marketing Intern - Taiwan","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"Intern","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-02T09:35:38.516+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taipei","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/602805d6-6dd1-46f5-aabc-027ed50ffb05","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/602805d6-6dd1-46f5-aabc-027ed50ffb05/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 Taiwan is looking for an Influencer Marketer Contractor to help scale our influencer programs and drive impact. This is a highly hands-on role where you'll own influencer campaigns and projects end-to-end, working closely with influencers and partners while helping improve how we operate influencer marketing at scale.
Beyond campaign execution, you'll help test AI-powered workflows that make influencer operations faster and more efficient. You'll join one of Taiwan's largest influencer marketing programs and play a direct role in driving brand awareness, user growth from influencer partnerships, content management and reaching target metrics.
We're not looking for someone to simply coordinate. We're looking for someone who takes ownership, executes with attention to detail, and proactively shares learnings so we can improve together. This is a 2-month contract internship, with potential opportunity to extend based on business need & performance.
Own influencer campaigns/ projects end-to-end from outreach to execution and performance reporting.
Coordinate with influencers and external partners to ensure smooth campaign delivery.
Provide hands-on feedback on content angles, messaging, and creative execution.
Test and optimize AI-powered workflows for influencer operations.
Document learnings and help improve internal influencer systems and processes.
1+ year of internship or full-time experience in marketing, growth, or a related field.
Experience working with external partners and managing multiple stakeholders.
Strong interest in influencer marketing, content, social media, and Taiwan influencer ecosystem.
Comfortable working with campaign performance metrics.
Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools.
Fluency in business English; communicating with Speak's global team should not be a blocker.
Experience working on influencer campaigns or partnerships in app, growth, or performance marketing.
Experience analyzing media or marketing performance data.
Experience using AI-native tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar platforms.
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, and Tokyo, 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 Taiwan is looking for an Influencer Marketer Contractor to help scale our influencer programs and drive impact. This is a highly hands-on role where you'll own influencer campaigns and projects end-to-end, working closely with influencers and partners while helping improve how we operate influencer marketing at scale.\n\nBeyond campaign execution, you'll help test AI-powered workflows that make influencer operations faster and more efficient. You'll join one of Taiwan's largest influencer marketing programs and play a direct role in driving brand awareness, user growth from influencer partnerships, content management and reaching target metrics.\n\nWe're not looking for someone to simply coordinate. We're looking for someone who takes ownership, executes with attention to detail, and proactively shares learnings so we can improve together. This is a 2-month contract internship, with potential opportunity to extend based on business need & performance.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Own influencer campaigns/ projects end-to-end from outreach to execution and performance reporting.\n\n - Coordinate with influencers and external partners to ensure smooth campaign delivery.\n\n - Provide hands-on feedback on content angles, messaging, and creative execution.\n\n - Test and optimize AI-powered workflows for influencer operations.\n\n - Document learnings and help improve internal influencer systems and processes.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 1+ year of internship or full-time experience in marketing, growth, or a related field.\n\n - Experience working with external partners and managing multiple stakeholders.\n\n - Strong interest in influencer marketing, content, social media, and Taiwan influencer ecosystem.\n\n - Comfortable working with campaign performance metrics.\n\n - Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools.\n\n - Fluency in business English; communicating with Speak's global team should not be a blocker.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience working on influencer campaigns or partnerships in app, growth, or performance marketing.\n\n - Experience analyzing media or marketing performance data.\n\n - Experience using AI-native tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar platforms.\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, and Tokyo, 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","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.
We're looking for experienced Engineering Managers to lead critical engineering teams at Speak - the world's leading AI-powered language learning app. This is an extraordinary moment to join us: we're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change.
You'll lead engineers working on some of the most compelling problems in consumer AI, from building realtime voice AI systems to designing LLM orchestration platforms that power millions of personalized learning conversations to scaling inference infrastructure across global markets. The technical surface area is deep, spanning custom ML models, voice agent platforms, LLM tooling, and production infrastructure.
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. 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.
As part of this, we’re looking for EMs that are excited to use coding agents to get close to the metal again, stay deeply in the details of your team's work, and lead by example.
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
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, and Tokyo, 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 experienced Engineering Managers to lead critical engineering teams at Speak - the world's leading AI-powered language learning app. This is an extraordinary moment to join us: we're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change https://www.speak.com/blog/agentic-engineering.\n\nYou'll lead engineers working on some of the most compelling problems in consumer AI, from building realtime voice AI systems to designing LLM orchestration platforms that power millions of personalized learning conversations to scaling inference infrastructure across global markets. The technical surface area is deep, spanning custom ML models, voice agent platforms, LLM tooling, and production infrastructure.\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. 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\nAs part of this, we’re looking for EMs that are excited to use coding agents to get close to the metal again, stay deeply in the details of your team's work, and lead by example.\n\n\n\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\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\n\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, and Tokyo, 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":"b05cda50-a4f8-4c74-aafe-5b4ad57bba0e","title":"QA Engineer ","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-23T17:39:10.733+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/b05cda50-a4f8-4c74-aafe-5b4ad57bba0e","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/b05cda50-a4f8-4c74-aafe-5b4ad57bba0e/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, highly autonomous QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team at Speak. You'll own QA coverage for assigned feature team end-to-end: test planning, execution, and release sign-off. Beyond hands-on testing, this is a high-ownership IC role for someone who actively looks for smarter ways to scale coverage through tooling, automation, and AI-powered workflows, not just manual effort.
Test planning and execution
Own QA coverage for 1~2 pods: analyze requirements, write test plans and test cases, execute across iOS, Android, webapp, and backend.
Conduct functional, regression, and design testing. Document and track defects in Qase and Linear
Participate in pod weeklies and collaborate with PMs and Engineers to clarify requirements and catch issues before they reach QA
Risk analysis and release readiness
Assess risk across features and releases: identify what needs the most coverage, what can be deferred, and what's a blocker
Own release candidate sign-off for your pods, with a clear point of view on what's ready to ship and what isn't
Surface patterns in defects and coverage gaps to improve how the team plans and prioritizes QA work
Scale QA intelligently
Identify what's automatable vs. what requires human judgment and act on that distinction
Document execution-ready test cases with clear steps for any outsourced or automated testing scope
Contribute to evaluating and adopting agentic testing tools and AI-powered workflows that reduce manual effort over time
Drive quality culture
Partner with Product, Engineer, and QA on process improvements, coverage gaps, and release readiness
Contribute to QA documentation, standards, and best practices across pods
Bring a continuous improvement mindset: if something is slow or manual and doesn't need to be, fix it
5+ years of QA experience in user-facing mobile apps (iOS or Android required)
Hands-on tester first: you manually test the app, find real bugs, and document them with precision and full context
Strong risk analysis instincts: you know what to test deeply, what to deprioritize, and how to make the call under time pressure
High ownership mindset: you define what good coverage looks like and build toward it without being told
Experience writing structured test plans and test cases from product specs
Experienced using AI tools in your QA workflow: test case generation, automated execution, or agentic testing frameworks, and actively look for ways to apply them to reduce manual effort
Comfortable reading and understanding test scripts; you don’t need to write them from scratch but you can use AI tools to write and improve them without relying on Engineering
Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and release windows are tight
Able to work from SF HQ at least 3 days/week
Nice to have:
Experience with AI-powered testing tools and methodology
Exposure to ASR or audio/speech product testing
Familiar with mobile test automation frameworks (Espresso, XCUITest, Appium, or Detox) and/or web (Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress)
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, and Tokyo, 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, highly autonomous QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team at Speak. You'll own QA coverage for assigned feature team end-to-end: test planning, execution, and release sign-off. Beyond hands-on testing, this is a high-ownership IC role for someone who actively looks for smarter ways to scale coverage through tooling, automation, and AI-powered workflows, not just manual effort.\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Test planning and execution\n \n - Own QA coverage for 1~2 pods: analyze requirements, write test plans and test cases, execute across iOS, Android, webapp, and backend.\n \n - Conduct functional, regression, and design testing. Document and track defects in Qase and Linear\n \n - Participate in pod weeklies and collaborate with PMs and Engineers to clarify requirements and catch issues before they reach QA\n\n - Risk analysis and release readiness\n \n - Assess risk across features and releases: identify what needs the most coverage, what can be deferred, and what's a blocker\n \n - Own release candidate sign-off for your pods, with a clear point of view on what's ready to ship and what isn't\n \n - Surface patterns in defects and coverage gaps to improve how the team plans and prioritizes QA work\n\n - Scale QA intelligently\n \n - Identify what's automatable vs. what requires human judgment and act on that distinction\n \n - Document execution-ready test cases with clear steps for any outsourced or automated testing scope\n \n - Contribute to evaluating and adopting agentic testing tools and AI-powered workflows that reduce manual effort over time\n\n - Drive quality culture\n \n - Partner with Product, Engineer, and QA on process improvements, coverage gaps, and release readiness\n \n - Contribute to QA documentation, standards, and best practices across pods\n \n - Bring a continuous improvement mindset: if something is slow or manual and doesn't need to be, fix it\n\n\nWHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?\n\n - 5+ years of QA experience in user-facing mobile apps (iOS or Android required)\n\n - Hands-on tester first: you manually test the app, find real bugs, and document them with precision and full context\n\n - Strong risk analysis instincts: you know what to test deeply, what to deprioritize, and how to make the call under time pressure\n\n - High ownership mindset: you define what good coverage looks like and build toward it without being told\n\n - Experience writing structured test plans and test cases from product specs\n\n - Experienced using AI tools in your QA workflow: test case generation, automated execution, or agentic testing frameworks, and actively look for ways to apply them to reduce manual effort\n\n - Comfortable reading and understanding test scripts; you don’t need to write them from scratch but you can use AI tools to write and improve them without relying on Engineering\n\n - Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and release windows are tight\n\n - Able to work from SF HQ at least 3 days/week\n\nNice to have:\n\n - Experience with AI-powered testing tools and methodology\n\n - Exposure to ASR or audio/speech product testing\n\n - Familiar with mobile test automation frameworks (Espresso, XCUITest, Appium, or Detox) and/or web (Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress)\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, and Tokyo, 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":"a563710e-540e-4172-b929-0abcd511e5ac","title":"Product Designer","department":"Design","team":"Design","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-12T22:56:17.059+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a563710e-540e-4172-b929-0abcd511e5ac","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a563710e-540e-4172-b929-0abcd511e5ac/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.
About This Role
Speakeasy Labs, Inc. is seeking a Product Designer to join our growing team in San Francisco, CA.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of language learning. This IC role will focus on designing innovative AI-driven conversational experiences that redefine how language is taught and learned. Partnering closely with our CEO, CTO, and cross-functional teams, you'll play a key role in developing product strategy, creating new interactions, and evolving our core product experience.
In this high-impact position, you'll have the chance to design novel experiences across voice, audio, and video interactions — putting your stamp on features and product direction for an app already beloved by users around the world.
What You'll Be Doing
Design innovative AI-driven conversational experiences that redefine how language is taught and learned
Partner closely with the company's CEO, CTO, and cross-functional teams to play a key role in developing product strategy, creating new interactions, and evolving core product experience through design
Design novel experiences across voice, audio, and video interactions
Work with teams across product, design, and engineering to prioritize and set the specification for new features to build
Work directly with engineering teams to ensure a feature gets built, balancing the Product Designer's vision, technical feasibility, and user value
Design new features all the way from concept to finalized pixels
Design the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) of new features across platforms, developing and implementing a consistent design language
Design AI tutoring products and support technical design work across the company as needed
What We're Looking For
Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Design, Web Design, or a closely related field
Minimum Experience: 6 years of progressively responsible experience in product design for consumer-facing products or a related role
Minimum Skills: Must have 4 years of experience leading design projects for web and mobile products; 2 years of experience prototyping, micro-interactions, utilizing motion, and creating design palettes; 2 years of experience designing a consumer/content-forward app, audio and speaking experiences
#LI-DNI
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, and Tokyo, 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\nSpeakeasy Labs, Inc. is seeking a Product Designer to join our growing team in San Francisco, CA.\n\nThis is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of language learning. This IC role will focus on designing innovative AI-driven conversational experiences that redefine how language is taught and learned. Partnering closely with our CEO, CTO, and cross-functional teams, you'll play a key role in developing product strategy, creating new interactions, and evolving our core product experience.\n\nIn this high-impact position, you'll have the chance to design novel experiences across voice, audio, and video interactions — putting your stamp on features and product direction for an app already beloved by users around the world.\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing\n\n - Design innovative AI-driven conversational experiences that redefine how language is taught and learned\n\n - Partner closely with the company's CEO, CTO, and cross-functional teams to play a key role in developing product strategy, creating new interactions, and evolving core product experience through design\n\n - Design novel experiences across voice, audio, and video interactions\n\n - Work with teams across product, design, and engineering to prioritize and set the specification for new features to build\n\n - Work directly with engineering teams to ensure a feature gets built, balancing the Product Designer's vision, technical feasibility, and user value\n\n - Design new features all the way from concept to finalized pixels\n\n - Design the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) of new features across platforms, developing and implementing a consistent design language\n\n - Design AI tutoring products and support technical design work across the company as needed\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\n - Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Design, Web Design, or a closely related field\n\n - Minimum Experience: 6 years of progressively responsible experience in product design for consumer-facing products or a related role\n\n - Minimum Skills: Must have 4 years of experience leading design projects for web and mobile products; 2 years of experience prototyping, micro-interactions, utilizing motion, and creating design palettes; 2 years of experience designing a consumer/content-forward app, audio and speaking experiences\n\n\n\n#LI-DNI\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, and Tokyo, 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":"a92f2d55-88a1-457c-b016-5b983b4ea481","title":"Customer Experience Agent — LATAM / Americas (Contract)","department":"Operations","team":"Customer Experience","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Remote - LATAM","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-08T23:07:12.590+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a92f2d55-88a1-457c-b016-5b983b4ea481","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a92f2d55-88a1-457c-b016-5b983b4ea481/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 delivers world-class support and experience for learners all around the world. We partner with effective tools and AI to ensure that no matter where our learners are based, they can receive the support they need and experience the full Speak method.
We're looking for a passionate, detail-oriented CX Agent to support our Spanish and English-speaking users in the Americas. You'll be the voice of Speak for LATAM and US users — resolving issues quickly, maintaining high quality standards, and sharing the user's perspective with our team. This role plays a key part in keeping our Americas users engaged, satisfied, and loyal.
This is a fully remote contractor role, and we're looking for candidates based in Argentina, Brazil, or Mexico. Hours are Eastern Time (9am–6pm ET, Monday–Friday).
Handle inbound support requests in English and other ROW languages via in-app chat, email, and other channels
Diagnose and resolve issues related to subscriptions, account access, billing, and app features
Escalate technical bugs and complex cases to the related PoCs with clear reproduction steps
Maintain consistent quality scores across all user interactions (CSAT, QPI)
Identify patterns in user feedback and share insights with the CX lead and product team
Contribute to the internal Knowledge Base in Spanish and English
Participate in async syncs, QA reviews, and VoC reporting
Minimum requirements
1+ years of customer support or customer-facing experience
Native-level English communication skills (reading, writing, speaking)
Professional-level Spanish for user communication
Familiarity with US user communication norms
Strong empathy and a user-first mindset
Self-starter with the ability to independently manage multiple cases and proactively flag issues
Available to work Eastern Time hours (9am–6pm ET, Mon–Fri)
Nice to haves
Experience with support tools such as Intercom or Zendesk
Experience supporting a mobile app or SaaS product
Familiarity with subscription billing or in-app purchase flows
Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day work
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, and Tokyo, 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 delivers world-class support and experience for learners all around the world. We partner with effective tools and AI to ensure that no matter where our learners are based, they can receive the support they need and experience the full Speak method.\n\nWe're looking for a passionate, detail-oriented CX Agent to support our Spanish and English-speaking users in the Americas. You'll be the voice of Speak for LATAM and US users — resolving issues quickly, maintaining high quality standards, and sharing the user's perspective with our team. This role plays a key part in keeping our Americas users engaged, satisfied, and loyal.\n\n\n\nThis is a fully remote contractor role, and we're looking for candidates based in Argentina, Brazil, or Mexico. Hours are Eastern Time (9am–6pm ET, Monday–Friday).\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Handle inbound support requests in English and other ROW languages via in-app chat, email, and other channels\n\n - Diagnose and resolve issues related to subscriptions, account access, billing, and app features\n\n - Escalate technical bugs and complex cases to the related PoCs with clear reproduction steps\n\n - Maintain consistent quality scores across all user interactions (CSAT, QPI)\n\n - Identify patterns in user feedback and share insights with the CX lead and product team\n\n - Contribute to the internal Knowledge Base in Spanish and English\n\n - Participate in async syncs, QA reviews, and VoC reporting\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\nMinimum requirements\n\n - 1+ years of customer support or customer-facing experience\n\n - Native-level English communication skills (reading, writing, speaking)\n\n - Professional-level Spanish for user communication\n\n - Familiarity with US user communication norms\n\n - Strong empathy and a user-first mindset\n\n - Self-starter with the ability to independently manage multiple cases and proactively flag issues\n\n - Available to work Eastern Time hours (9am–6pm ET, Mon–Fri)\n\n\n\nNice to haves\n\n - Experience with support tools such as Intercom or Zendesk\n\n - Experience supporting a mobile app or SaaS product\n\n - Familiarity with subscription billing or in-app purchase flows\n\n - Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day work\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, and Tokyo, 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":"cbb6ee2f-85b6-4a2f-b88a-c9cf7cb73a8f","title":"Global Creative Strategy & Operations Lead","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-08T23:13:25.434+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/cbb6ee2f-85b6-4a2f-b88a-c9cf7cb73a8f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/cbb6ee2f-85b6-4a2f-b88a-c9cf7cb73a8f/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 senior creative leader to build and own our global performance creative function. You'll be the connective tissue between our markets’ creative teams — setting the standards, systems, and learning loops that let every market consistently produce content that performs, while keeping local teams fast and autonomous.
This is an IC role to start with immediate dotted line reporting, with a path to building a central team around you as the function grows. You'll work across paid, organic, influencer/UGC, and landing pages, and carry brand stewardship across markets in the absence of a dedicated brand team.
For the right candidate, there's potential for this role to evolve into broader brand and creative design leadership over time.
If you're energized by building things from scratch, thrive at the intersection of creative and data, and have a track record of making content that actually drives growth — this is the role.
Build and lead Speak's global creative operating system — shared standards, briefs, workflows, taxonomies, and learning loops — co-developed with market teams, not handed down to them
Partner with Market Leads and local design teams to raise the performance bar across all 5 current markets and future markets, acting as a thought partner and coach rather than a gatekeeper - your success is measured by how much market creative capability grows, not by central output alone
Own the test-and-learn infrastructure that connects paid, organic, influencer, and landing pages — surface what's working and make sure those learnings flow across channels and markets
Build and scale a creator and UGC engine that feeds both organic and paid acquisition
Own global agency relationships and in-house studio capabilities as the function matures, building hybrid production models that keep output high and costs efficient
Introduce and coach teams on AI creative tools and workflows — building capability across the function, not just speed
Carry brand integrity across performance creative — translating brand principles into great creative output across markets and high-volume testing environments
Contribute to concept ideation and measure how creative performs in market
Must Haves
8+ years in performance and growth creative, ideally in global B2C consumer businesses — traditional background not required; social-native, creator, or agency paths all considered
Deep fluency in mobile and social-first ad formats — Meta, TikTok, and YouTube in depth
Proven track record collaborating with creators to produce winning direct-response ads at scale — you've built hit DR creative with creators, not just managed the relationship
Equal parts creative and analytical — you distill content into its building blocks and use data to design testing frameworks that find winning ads
First principles thinker — you bring an evolving POV shaped by test-and-learn, not the traditional playbook; what you believed about great creative two years ago has changed
Experience designing scalable creative systems — repeatable briefs, production pipelines, testing frameworks, learnings repositories
Cross-channel fluency across UA, ASO, SEO, and CRM — you understand how creative performs across each surface
Ability to influence and coach without being prescriptive — you supercharge local teams without slowing them down or killing their autonomy
Hands-on with AI creative tools (Veo3, Sora, Kling or similar) integrated into repeatable production workflows — valued for operational scale, not just ideation
Nice to Haves
Experience leading hybrid brand design and performance creative teams
Experience managing in-house studio teams alongside agency relationships
Brand identity evolution experience in a competitive consumer or category-defining product
Passion for language learning
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, and Tokyo, 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 senior creative leader to build and own our global performance creative function. You'll be the connective tissue between our markets’ creative teams — setting the standards, systems, and learning loops that let every market consistently produce content that performs, while keeping local teams fast and autonomous.\n\nThis is an IC role to start with immediate dotted line reporting, with a path to building a central team around you as the function grows. You'll work across paid, organic, influencer/UGC, and landing pages, and carry brand stewardship across markets in the absence of a dedicated brand team.\n\nFor the right candidate, there's potential for this role to evolve into broader brand and creative design leadership over time.\n\nIf you're energized by building things from scratch, thrive at the intersection of creative and data, and have a track record of making content that actually drives growth — this is the role.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Build and lead Speak's global creative operating system — shared standards, briefs, workflows, taxonomies, and learning loops — co-developed with market teams, not handed down to them\n\n - Partner with Market Leads and local design teams to raise the performance bar across all 5 current markets and future markets, acting as a thought partner and coach rather than a gatekeeper - your success is measured by how much market creative capability grows, not by central output alone\n\n - Own the test-and-learn infrastructure that connects paid, organic, influencer, and landing pages — surface what's working and make sure those learnings flow across channels and markets\n\n - Build and scale a creator and UGC engine that feeds both organic and paid acquisition\n\n - Own global agency relationships and in-house studio capabilities as the function matures, building hybrid production models that keep output high and costs efficient\n\n - Introduce and coach teams on AI creative tools and workflows — building capability across the function, not just speed\n\n - Carry brand integrity across performance creative — translating brand principles into great creative output across markets and high-volume testing environments\n\n - Contribute to concept ideation and measure how creative performs in market\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\nMust Haves\n\n - 8+ years in performance and growth creative, ideally in global B2C consumer businesses — traditional background not required; social-native, creator, or agency paths all considered\n\n - Deep fluency in mobile and social-first ad formats — Meta, TikTok, and YouTube in depth\n\n - Proven track record collaborating with creators to produce winning direct-response ads at scale — you've built hit DR creative with creators, not just managed the relationship\n\n - Equal parts creative and analytical — you distill content into its building blocks and use data to design testing frameworks that find winning ads\n\n - First principles thinker — you bring an evolving POV shaped by test-and-learn, not the traditional playbook; what you believed about great creative two years ago has changed\n\n - Experience designing scalable creative systems — repeatable briefs, production pipelines, testing frameworks, learnings repositories\n\n - Cross-channel fluency across UA, ASO, SEO, and CRM — you understand how creative performs across each surface\n\n - Ability to influence and coach without being prescriptive — you supercharge local teams without slowing them down or killing their autonomy\n\n - Hands-on with AI creative tools (Veo3, Sora, Kling or similar) integrated into repeatable production workflows — valued for operational scale, not just ideation\n\n\n\nNice to Haves\n\n - Experience leading hybrid brand design and performance creative teams\n\n - Experience managing in-house studio teams alongside agency relationships\n\n - Brand identity evolution experience in a competitive consumer or category-defining product\n\n - Passion for language learning\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, and Tokyo, 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":"a68843c1-e4bb-4235-a011-7dafa0ca93be","title":"Korean-Japanese Curriculum Designer (Contract)","department":"Learning & Curriculum","team":"Learning & Curriculum","employmentType":"Contract","location":"Korea - Remote","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-30T08:24:11.479+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Korea"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a68843c1-e4bb-4235-a011-7dafa0ca93be","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/a68843c1-e4bb-4235-a011-7dafa0ca93be/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.
스픽 콘텐츠 팀에서 한국어 사용자를 위한 Korean-Japanese 커리큘럼 기획·개발을 담당할 계약직 커리큘럼 디자이너/콘텐츠 라이터를 모십니다. Korean-Japanese를 중심으로 학습자에게 맞는 콘텐츠를 개발·편집·현지화하는 역할을 수행합니다. 6개월 계약직이며, 재택근무와 유연한 업무시간이 가능한 포지션입니다.
커리큘럼 설계와 콘텐츠 개발에 대한 깊은 전문성, 교육과 기술의 접목을 통해 탁월한 학습 경험을 만드는 제품 감각을 가진 분과 함께하고 싶습니다. 언어 전문가, 강사, 콘텐츠 개발자로서의 역량을 스픽에서 펼치고 싶은 분들의 많은 지원을 기다립니다!
Korean-Japanese 커리큘럼 및 주요 콘텐츠 프로젝트를 end-to-end로 담당하며, 기획·제작·런칭까지 전 과정을 주도합니다.
한국 일본어 학습자에게 효과적이고 문화적으로 자연스러운 콘텐츠를 Speak의 브랜드 철학에 맞게 개발합니다.
QA, 사용자 피드백, 내부 검토 등을 바탕으로 콘텐츠를 지속적으로 개선합니다.
AI 툴을 적극 활용해 콘텐츠 제작 워크플로우를 효율화합니다.
한국어 원어민 수준의 언어 능력 및 한국 시장에 대한 깊은 문화적 감각을 갖추신 분.
에듀테크 기업에서 한국 성인 학습자 대상 일본어 커리큘럼/콘텐츠 개발 실무 경력 3년 이상이신 분.
한국 학습자의 니즈와 학습 패턴에 대한 깊은 이해도가 있으신 분.
독립적으로 프로젝트를 추진할 수 있는 실행력을 보유하신 분.
최신 툴 활용에 능숙하고 새로운 시스템에 빠르게 적응하실 수 있는 분.
한국 거주자로 6개월동안 재택근무가 가능하신 분 (연장 가능).
글로벌 멤버들과의 원활한 내부 협업을 위해 영어 커뮤니케이션이 가능하신 분.
데이터를 바탕으로 콘텐츠를 개선하는 데 익숙하신 분.
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We are looking for a contractor (6-month), a Curriculum Designer/Content Writer to join Speak’s Content team and help create high-quality language learning in-app content. This role focuses on planning curricula and developing materials for Korean speakers learning Japanese.
You will develop, edit, and localize innovative, engaging, and pedagogically sound materials for this specific audience. We are eager to work with world-class linguists/teachers/curriculum designers/content writers who have:
a deep understanding of spoken fluency development and language learning
experience successfully teaching or developing learning modules/materials
a strong product sense and an understanding of how teaching and technology can be integrated to create exceptional content
We are flexible with working hours and location, though the preference is that this person is based in South Korea.
Own the Korean-Japanese curriculum and high-priority content projects end-to-end- delivering high-quality learning experiences through clear planning, proactive communication, and strong execution.
Manage or facilitate content projects - either having end-to-end ownership or participating in content projects from content planning to writing, production, and launch content that feels fresh, modern, culturally attuned, and effective for Korean Japanese learners and is aligned with Speak’s brand philosophy
Content maintenance and iteration - Iterate and polish content based on QA, user testing, user feedback, and/or peer review.
Adopt AI-enabled workflows to streamline production, prototype new ideas, and improve efficiency across the Korean-Japanese curriculum.
Native-level Korean proficiency with strong cultural intuition for what resonates in the Korean market for Japanese learners.
Native or near-native proficiency in Japanese (both spoken and written).
Experience in Japanese education content planning, development, or instructional design
Exceptional user empathy. Deep understanding of Korean learner needs and Japanese-learning challenges.
Ability to ship high-quality curriculum independently and make sound decisions with minimal oversight.
Strong technical fluency with modern tools and ability to ramp quickly on new systems.
Operationally strong: clear communicator on scope/trade-offs and able to manage multiple workstreams
Based in Korea and willing to commit to 6 months contract, with possibility of extension based on performance & business need (working hours/days are flexible)
Able to communicate in English with the global teams based in US
Content analytics intuition: able to identify which engagement and learning metrics matter and translate insights into curriculum improvements.
Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials—beyond simply asking ChatGPT for ideas or drafts.
Worked directly with EdTech or language-learning apps in roles involving curriculum design, content production, learning experience design, or pedagogical strategy.
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, and Tokyo, 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\n스픽 콘텐츠 팀에서 한국어 사용자를 위한 Korean-Japanese 커리큘럼 기획·개발을 담당할 계약직 커리큘럼 디자이너/콘텐츠 라이터를 모십니다. Korean-Japanese를 중심으로 학습자에게 맞는 콘텐츠를 개발·편집·현지화하는 역할을 수행합니다. 6개월 계약직이며, 재택근무와 유연한 업무시간이 가능한 포지션입니다.\n\n커리큘럼 설계와 콘텐츠 개발에 대한 깊은 전문성, 교육과 기술의 접목을 통해 탁월한 학습 경험을 만드는 제품 감각을 가진 분과 함께하고 싶습니다. 언어 전문가, 강사, 콘텐츠 개발자로서의 역량을 스픽에서 펼치고 싶은 분들의 많은 지원을 기다립니다!\n\n\n\n\n주요업무\n\n - Korean-Japanese 커리큘럼 및 주요 콘텐츠 프로젝트를 end-to-end로 담당하며, 기획·제작·런칭까지 전 과정을 주도합니다.\n\n - 한국 일본어 학습자에게 효과적이고 문화적으로 자연스러운 콘텐츠를 Speak의 브랜드 철학에 맞게 개발합니다.\n\n - QA, 사용자 피드백, 내부 검토 등을 바탕으로 콘텐츠를 지속적으로 개선합니다.\n\n - AI 툴을 적극 활용해 콘텐츠 제작 워크플로우를 효율화합니다.\n\n\n\n\n자격요건\n\n - 한국어 원어민 수준의 언어 능력 및 한국 시장에 대한 깊은 문화적 감각을 갖추신 분.\n\n - 에듀테크 기업에서 한국 성인 학습자 대상 일본어 커리큘럼/콘텐츠 개발 실무 경력 3년 이상이신 분.\n\n - 한국 학습자의 니즈와 학습 패턴에 대한 깊은 이해도가 있으신 분.\n\n - 독립적으로 프로젝트를 추진할 수 있는 실행력을 보유하신 분.\n\n - 최신 툴 활용에 능숙하고 새로운 시스템에 빠르게 적응하실 수 있는 분.\n\n - 한국 거주자로 6개월동안 재택근무가 가능하신 분 (연장 가능).\n\n\n\n\n우대사항\n\n - 글로벌 멤버들과의 원활한 내부 협업을 위해 영어 커뮤니케이션이 가능하신 분.\n\n - 데이터를 바탕으로 콘텐츠를 개선하는 데 익숙하신 분.\n\n\n\n---\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THIS ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a contractor (6-month), a Curriculum Designer/Content Writer to join Speak’s Content team and help create high-quality language learning in-app content. This role focuses on planning curricula and developing materials for Korean speakers learning Japanese.\n\nYou will develop, edit, and localize innovative, engaging, and pedagogically sound materials for this specific audience. We are eager to work with world-class linguists/teachers/curriculum designers/content writers who have:\n\n - a deep understanding of spoken fluency development and language learning\n\n - experience successfully teaching or developing learning modules/materials\n\n - a strong product sense and an understanding of how teaching and technology can be integrated to create exceptional content\n\nWe are flexible with working hours and location, though the preference is that this person is based in South Korea.\n\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING\n\n - Own the Korean-Japanese curriculum and high-priority content projects end-to-end- delivering high-quality learning experiences through clear planning, proactive communication, and strong execution.\n\n - Manage or facilitate content projects - either having end-to-end ownership or participating in content projects from content planning to writing, production, and launch content that feels fresh, modern, culturally attuned, and effective for Korean Japanese learners and is aligned with Speak’s brand philosophy\n\n - Content maintenance and iteration - Iterate and polish content based on QA, user testing, user feedback, and/or peer review.\n\n - Adopt AI-enabled workflows to streamline production, prototype new ideas, and improve efficiency across the Korean-Japanese curriculum.\n\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\n\n\nMUST-HAVES\n\n - Native-level Korean proficiency with strong cultural intuition for what resonates in the Korean market for Japanese learners.\n\n - Native or near-native proficiency in Japanese (both spoken and written).\n\n - Experience in Japanese education content planning, development, or instructional design\n\n - Exceptional user empathy. Deep understanding of Korean learner needs and Japanese-learning challenges.\n\n - Ability to ship high-quality curriculum independently and make sound decisions with minimal oversight.\n\n - Strong technical fluency with modern tools and ability to ramp quickly on new systems.\n\n - Operationally strong: clear communicator on scope/trade-offs and able to manage multiple workstreams\n\n - Based in Korea and willing to commit to 6 months contract, with possibility of extension based on performance & business need (working hours/days are flexible)\n\n\n\n\n\nNICE-TO-HAVES\n\n - Able to communicate in English with the global teams based in US\n\n - Content analytics intuition: able to identify which engagement and learning metrics matter and translate insights into curriculum improvements.\n\n - Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically aligned, and scalable learning materials—beyond simply asking ChatGPT for ideas or drafts.\n\n - Worked directly with EdTech or language-learning apps in roles involving curriculum design, content production, learning experience design, or pedagogical strategy.\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, and Tokyo, 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":"1b3921ab-14eb-47f9-8151-6ee926e36bdd","title":"Influencer Marketing Manager - Japan","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Tokyo","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-30T09:15:25.494+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Tokyo","addressCountry":"Japan","addressLocality":"Tokyo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/1b3921ab-14eb-47f9-8151-6ee926e36bdd","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/1b3921ab-14eb-47f9-8151-6ee926e36bdd/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 an Influencer Marketing Manager to develop and scale influencer campaigns in Japan. You will be responsible for executing effective tie-ups with creators on YouTube and other media channels while up-leveling creativity, operations, and measurability. You'll work with a small-yet-mighty team of cross-functional marketers and more!
This is a hybrid role, based in our Shibuya office.
Build and align on measurement strategy for influencer activities across the funnel.
Plan and execute influencer campaigns on media channels like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.
Drive operational excellence and ensure creative quality.
Conduct rigorous tests and experiments with various media and formats.
Ideate, test, and iterate on new approaches to further scale creative partnerships.
Must haves
3+ years of experience in B2C marketing, at least with some experience in influencer/creator marketing
Deep understanding of the mechanics of growth in Japan
Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively
Ability to work under pressure, quickly adapt, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
Native Japanese & Business English is mandatory
Familiarity with marketing measurement strategies and their execution
Nice to haves
Team management experience
Start-up experience is strongly preferred
App marketing 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, and Tokyo, 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 Influencer Marketing Manager to develop and scale influencer campaigns in Japan. You will be responsible for executing effective tie-ups with creators on YouTube and other media channels while up-leveling creativity, operations, and measurability. You'll work with a small-yet-mighty team of cross-functional marketers and more!\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid role, based in our Shibuya office.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\n\n - Build and align on measurement strategy for influencer activities across the funnel.\n\n - Plan and execute influencer campaigns on media channels like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.\n\n - Drive operational excellence and ensure creative quality.\n\n - Conduct rigorous tests and experiments with various media and formats.\n\n - Ideate, test, and iterate on new approaches to further scale creative partnerships.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nMust haves\n\n - 3+ years of experience in B2C marketing, at least with some experience in influencer/creator marketing\n\n - Deep understanding of the mechanics of growth in Japan\n\n - Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively\n\n - Ability to work under pressure, quickly adapt, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously\n\n - Native Japanese & Business English is mandatory\n\n - Familiarity with marketing measurement strategies and their execution\n\nNice to haves\n\n - Team management experience\n\n - Start-up experience is strongly preferred\n\n - App marketing 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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, and Tokyo, 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":"Lead Product Manager - Enterprise","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-07T16:34:52.284+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 starts as a hands-on Product Lead role with a clear Enterprise 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.
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.
6+ years of hands-on product experience, as well as Product Lead 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 without assuming formal authority or direct reports on day one.
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, and Tokyo, 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 starts as a hands-on Product Lead role with a clear Enterprise 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 - 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\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 6+ years of hands-on product experience, as well as Product Lead 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 without assuming formal authority or direct reports on day one.\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, and Tokyo, 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 Lead 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.
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.
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, and Tokyo, 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 Lead 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\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\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, and Tokyo, 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"}