Product Manager, Speak
Memory & Personal Intelligence
$191-315k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
English language learning app
Be an early applicant
English language learning app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$191-315k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Product Lead to build the memory and intelligence layer that helps Speak know what each learner should do next
- 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
Our take
As the international language of business, there are many incentives for global entrepreneurs to learn English. With over 1.5 billion people actively learning English to improve their job prospects, the customer base for Speak, an AI tutor in the English language, is potentially massive.
Investors believe so too, with tens of millions of dollars raised to fund the company from a range of international firms, including Korean investors and the Silicon Valley-based OpenAI Fund. This surge of capital will help Speak develop its software and open new markets, especially in the US.
Speak is attempting to break into a highly saturated education market, and the success of learning English fluently through its platform is yet to be proven. That being said, it has the potential to become a leading tool specifically in the mobile app sector if it can prove itself as efficient and accessible as the language learning platform Duolingo.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$78m
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $165.9m
Company benefits
- Speak offers all the standard benefits you'd expect at a tech startup, along with stipends for commuting, fitness, and learning!
- In addition, team members are encouraged to travel between offices and we also host an annual company offsite
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Connor Zwick
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Chegg Inc, CEO at coco Controller, Flascards+ and Freelance Blogger at Envato.
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