Engineering Manager, Speak
Growth
$200-280k
+ Equity
English language learning app
Open for applications
English language learning app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$200-280k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in an engineering leadership role
- Bonus: experience in growth-focused product teams
- Bonus: experience scaling products to millions of users globally
- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in backend or mobile systems
- Deep understanding of experimentation frameworks, data instrumentation, and growth loops
- Experience managing and mentoring high-performing engineering teams
- Familiarity with monetization platforms like RevenueCat, Google Play Store or StoreKit
- Strong product intuition and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with PMs, Designers, and Analysts
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative environment with a strong bias for action
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, Growth on Speak’s engineering team, you will lead initiatives that drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization
- You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Design, and Data to identify high-leverage opportunities, run experiments, and iterate quickly
- You will manage a team of engineers, guide technical strategy, and help shape a product used by millions globally
- Lead the engineering strategy for growth-related initiatives, such as onboarding optimization, pricing experimentation, lifecycle messaging and paywall iteration
- Partner with Product and Data to design and run A/B tests focused on conversion, retention, and engagement
- Oversee technical implementation of monetization experiments, including paywalls, subscriptions, pricing, and offer logic
- Guide and mentor a team of engineers through technical and career development
- Collaborate with infra and data teams to ensure our experimentation frameworks and analytics pipelines are robust and scalable
- Support international growth through localization, regionalized feature development, and launch-readiness efforts
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 the language to better their chances in the job market, 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 human-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: $165.8m
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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