Speak
Strategic Finance
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 117 days ago
Product StrategyFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisForecastingLeadershipCommunicationFinancial Reporting
About the role
- Our Strategic Finance team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, driving financial planning, forecasting, and cross-functional partnership.
- The team guides critical decisions through rigorous analysis and collaboration.
- This is a high-impact role on a lean team: you'll operate independently, bring structure to ambiguous problems, and influence senior leaders with clear financial narratives.
Responsibilities
- Own the financial strategy and analysis for new product development
- Build unit economics by segment, vertical, and motion to inform pricing, packaging, and where we lean in
- Support capital allocation decisions by evaluating returns on product investments, pricing changes, and operational initiatives
- Partner with go to market leadership to drive sales motions across all distribution channels, including global tiered consumer and enterprise channels
- Provide strategic guidance and insight to drive end‑to‑end long‑range planning, including assumptions, scenarios, pressure‑testing, and executive storytelling
Requirements
- Familiarity with outcomes-based modeling and product led growth
Nice to have
- 6-9 years in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role - with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred
Compensation
- Direct experience supporting full planning cycles including long range planning, annual planning, quarterly re-forecasts, and board / investor-facing materials
Benefits
- Develop financial models and economic frameworks to enable product vision and strategy; evaluate strategic product investments and enable strategic tradeoff decisions
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead who will partner with business leaders across the company to drive growth, surface insight, and shape investment decisions.
This listing is sourced directly from Speak's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.