Latin America Go-To-Market Lead, Speak
English language learning app
Job no longer available
English language learning app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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
- Should have at least 7-10 years of experience in tech startups
- Must be fluent in verbal and written communication skills in both English and Spanish, including the ability to cultivate internal and external relationships
- Strong track record of achieving goals and exceeding business expectations
- Experience being involved in high-growth, high-impact projects
- A demonstrated ability to establish, maintain and grow business relationships successfully, with an emphasis on marketing and business
- Start-up experience strongly preferred
- Able to be comfortable with ambiguity
- Strong leadership qualities with the ability to build high-performance teams
- Someone who is passionate about the problem and mission we're trying to solve
- Willing to travel as needed to HQ (San Francisco, CA)
What the job involves
- Identify the biggest growth opportunities and lead strategic initiatives for the LATAM market
- Own the performance of the LATAM market across all key metrics
- Formulate a cohesive market strategy and spearhead the effort to grow the LATAM market and launch new individual regions
- Lead the quarterly planning process and be responsible for performance goals
- Serve as the link between the LATAM team and the SF office (headquarter)
- Communicate product needs to HQ, work closely with product/engineering to deliver on them
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional global teams
- Establish policies that promote company culture and vision
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members to achieve business objectives and ensure team motivation
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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