Product Manager, Speak
Growth
$150-225k
Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
English language learning app
Job no longer available
English 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 teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.
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
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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