Speak
Bilingual Actor - Chinese - English
Los Angeles
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 733 days ago
About the role
- 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.
- The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Responsibilities
- a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons.
- In these video lessons, you'll be seated behind a table facing a camera and deliver pre-written scripts explaining language concepts and phrases for learners.
Requirements
- Actors for this role must be bilingual in Mandarin and English.
- For native Mandarin speakers, having an accent in English to a certain degree is ok, as long as your delivery of English lines is very clear, fluent, and easily comprehensible by English speakers.
- When a user goes through a video lesson, the video recording of your teaching will play, along with opportunities for the app user to practice the language you are teaching.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
- WHAT ARE WE CASTING FOR?
- 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.
- 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.
- We are seeking actors to appear in our app-based video lessons as language teachers (watch the sample video below under each role for reference).
- While these lessons are not live, they are interactive.
- Scripts also contain questions to the user and a variety of responses based on their performance.
This listing is sourced directly from Speak's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.