Product Manager

About us

Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.

Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn't been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.

Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world's leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.

About this Role

As a Product Manager at Speak, you will be responsible for defining and delivering product experiences that help learners around the world achieve fluency. 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. 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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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

Why work at Speak

1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
2. Do your life's work with people you'll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
3. Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, and Tokyo, and you'll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
4. Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We're helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.

Speak does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.