Lead Product Manager, Speak
Enterprise
$191-315k
+ equity
English language learning app
Be an early applicant
English language learning app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$191-315k
+ equity
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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 18 more jobs at Speak