Staff Product Designer, Speak
$150-240k
Offers Equity
2-3 days a week in office
English language learning app
Open for applications
English language learning app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-240k
Offers Equity
2-3 days a week in office
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
- The ideal candidate will be a strong generalist designer who has extensive experience with both UI and UX design on mobile that can take design ownership of our core conversational product experience going forward
- 6+ years of experience as a Product Designer in consumer-facing products
- Extensive experience leading design projects for web and mobile products
- Experience working on a small design team and "doing it all"
- You enjoy going deep on both UX and UI work
- You're a clear communicator and enjoy working closely with partners across teams, particularly in engineering
- You've invested in your craft and have experience with prototyping, micro-interactions, utilizing motion, and creating design palettes
- An ideal candidate will additionally have experience designing a consumer/content-forward app, audio and speaking experiences, as well as have a personal interest in language learning
What the job involves
- We're looking for someone to come on as Speak's second designer
- We have an opportunity to completely transform the way language is taught and learned, and how AI-driven conversational experiences are introduced to mainstream consumers
- We will be experimenting with novel interactions across voice, audio, and video, and we need someone who thrives on creating these new paradigms
- This role sits at the center of designing these interactions and will have enormous impact on the future of our company
- Work with teams across product, design, and engineering to prioritize and spec out new features to build
- Work directly with engineering to ensure a feature gets built, balancing your vision, technical feasibility, and user value
- Design new features all the way from concept to finalized pixels
- Design the UX and UI of new features across platforms, developing and implementing a consistent design language
- Take focused ownership of designing our AI tutoring product, rethinking the way our users learn language from the ground up
- Help support miscellaneous design work across the company as needed
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
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.4m
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
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Leadership
Connor Zwick
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Chegg Inc, CEO at coco Controller, Flascards+ and Freelance Blogger at Envato.
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