Lead Product Manager, Speak
Enterprise
$191-315k
+ equity
Language learning app
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Language learning app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$191-315k
+ equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
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
Language is one of the most powerful skills a person can learn. It helps us connect with people, understand different cultures, travel with confidence, and unlock new opportunities in life and work. But learning a language is often easier said than done. Traditional lessons are daunting and slow, not to mention expensive, and many people never get enough practice actually speaking out loud.
Speak is changing that by putting an AI language tutor right in your pocket. Instead of focusing on memorising endless vocabulary lists, Speak is built around real conversations. Learnings speak from the very beginning, receive instant feedback, and work through lessons designed to help them improve naturally over time. It brings the experience of practicing with a personal tutor to millions of people, making language learning more accessible.
That approach is clearly working too. Since launching in South Korea in 2019, Speak has now grown into the country's number one language learning app and now supports learners across more than 15 languages worldwide. Backed by leading investors, including OpenAI, Speak has become on of the world's leading AI language learning companies. And as AI becomes better at understanding and responding like a real conversation partner, Speak is in a good position to help even more people not just learn a language but become confident in it.
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
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- 401(k)
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly language learning stipend
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Connor Zwick
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Speak in 2016, Connor founded Flashcards+ where they served as the CEO until it was acquired by Chegg. They also served as the CEO at Coco Controller for nearly 3 years.
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