Product Manager, Speak
3 days a week in office
English language learning app
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English language learning app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
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
- The ideal candidate has strong product instincts, is deeply user-centric, and is excited to build and ship in a fast-moving, data-driven environment
- Strong track record shipping products users love
- Deep user empathy and experience conducting effective user research
- A strong foundation in data and hypothesis-driven methodologies
- Experience building for consumers, particularly on mobile
- Strong technical understanding to work efficiently with engineers on data-driven projects
- Clear and impactful communication skills, particularly in cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritize under constraints and ambiguity
- Understanding that quality and speed are not mutually exclusive with effective scoping
- Genuine passion for the problem and mission we're solving
What the job involves
- As a Product Manager at Speak, you will be responsible for defining and delivering product experiences that help learners around the world achieve fluency
- Speak is a next-generation AI-powered language learning tutor and the most popular education app in markets like South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
- This role works closely with teams across engineering, design, analytics, marketing, and more to drive meaningful outcomes for learners and the business
- Own a product area end-to-end — from strategy and prioritization through execution and iteration
- Conduct user research and analysis to generate insightful, user-focused hypotheses and inform product decisions
- Define KPIs, set up and analyze experiments, and develop a strong intuition for what moves the needle
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, and marketing to deliver high-quality product experiences
- Translate ambiguous opportunity areas into clear, well-scoped problems and actionable roadmaps
- Communicate clearly and align stakeholders across functions on strategy, priorities, and tradeoffs
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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