Technical Recruiter, Speak
Temporary
$50.00 – $80.00 per hour
English language learning app
Job no longer available
English language learning app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$50.00 – $80.00 per hour
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
- 3+ years of technical recruiting experience, within high-growth startups or tech-forward companies
- Demonstrated success hiring for engineering, product, and/or design roles, from ICs to leadership levels
- Strong sourcing skills with a track record of creatively identifying and engaging top technical talent
- Proficiency in recruiting tools and systems like Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or LinkedIn Recruiter
- Deep understanding of the U.S. tech talent landscape, with an ability to advise on competitive market trends
- Highly organized and autonomous; able to juggle multiple searches and priorities without dropping the ball
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a candidate-first mindset
- A passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and helping others do the best work of their careers
What the job involves
- As a Technical Recruiter, you’ll focus on hiring top-tier talent across engineering, product, and design, playing a pivotal role in scaling our technical organization
- This role goes beyond sourcing and coordinating—you're a strategic partner to hiring managers, a brand ambassador to candidates, and a systems thinker who helps optimize our hiring infrastructure
- This is temporary, 6-month hybrid role in San Francisco
- Drive full-cycle recruiting across technical roles (Engineering, Product, and Design) with speed and precision, with an openness to stretch across Business roles as needed
- Partner deeply with hiring managers to understand team needs, define role requirements, and craft structured interview processes
- Proactively source and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn, GitHub, portfolio sites, and networking channels
- Build and maintain strong pipelines of technical talent across core disciplines and levels, ensuring readiness for future hiring surges
- Own the candidate experience—from sourcing & first outreach to offer acceptance—ensuring timely, transparent, and thoughtful communication at every stage
- Coordinate interviews across global time zones, optimizing for hiring team efficiency and candidate availability
- Leverage tools like Ashby (our ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing platforms to track and manage candidates
- Track recruiting metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve conversion rates, and iterate on sourcing and process strategies
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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