Product Manager, Speak
Growth
$150-225k
Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
Language learning app
Job no longer available
Language learning app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-225k
Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Role
Who you are
- Strong track record shipping products users love
- Ability to build robust growth models and deeply understand how to move metrics through structured optimization of key metrics
- Experience building for consumers, particularly on mobile
- A strong foundation in data and hypothesis-driven methodologies for funnel improvement and user engagement
- Ability to conduct effective user interviews and user surveys to find the most important truths
- Strong technical understanding to work efficiently with engineers and technical, data-driven projects
- Clear and impactful communication skills, particularly in collaborating with cross-functional teams and aligning on strategies
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritize when confronted with limited resourcing and ambiguous opportunity areas
- Understanding that quality and speed are not mutually exclusive with effective scoping
- Someone that is passionate about the problem and mission we're trying to solve
- The ideal candidate will be someone who lives and breathes metrics, has a strong product intuition, and is excited to build a product growth engine at a rapidly scaling company
What the job involves
- As a Growth Product Manager at Speak, you will be responsible for scaling our consumer product to tens of millions of new learners across the globe
- Speak is a next generation AI powered language learning tutor that is the most popular education app in markets like South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
- This role is key in unlocking top of funnel growth through rapid experimentation and optimization, working closely with teams across engineering, design, analytics, marketing, and more
- Iterating on our growth model to help guide our strategy for growth and investment areas
- Conducting user research and analysis to generate insightful user-focused hypotheses for testing, aimed at improving funnel conversion, engagement, and retention
- Driving top of funnel growth by partnering closely with marketing teams as well as building new growth loops
- Increasing our active subscriber base by experimentally optimizing the entire onboarding funnel and reducing user time-to-value to increase conversion rate and ARPU
- Establishing and maintaining platforms for in-app price testing, onboarding, and web testing to enable quick, hypothesis-driven experimentation
- Defining KPIs, setting up and analyzing experiments, and developing a strong intuition for metric improvement
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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