Speak
Product Designer, Enterprise
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
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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
- We take craft seriously, iterate fast, and value a high-trust critique-and-build culture.
- We have something to prove - and design awards to win.
Requirements
- You have experience designing in both consumer and B2B contexts.
- You can turn messy problems into a clear story: what matters, what tradeoffs we're making, and why.
- Turn complex learner progress, proficiency, and risk signals into reporting that L&D leaders can trust, understand, and act on
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.
- 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 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 a small, high-craft team of six working at the intersection of research, invention, and product thinking.
- We build consumer and B2B experiences used by millions across 150+ markets - and a lot of the work is genuinely novel: inventing how someone talks to an AI tutor, what feedback feels like when you're learning out loud, and how progress should be measured and celebrated.
- We stay close to learners through prototyping, interviews, betas, and experiments.
- Speak's enterprise product is still early, but the problem is big: companies need to know whether their teams are actually building language proficiency, where learners are getting stuck, and what interventions will help.
- You'll help define the tools they use to launch programs, understand progress, spot risks, and prove that language learning is working.
- Shape the strategy and design of our company-facing product - the admin, reporting, and account experiences the L&D managers who buy Speak rely on to launch, run, and prove their programs
- Set the design foundation for a surface that's still early - closer to 0-to-1 than operating a mature product
- Quickly set up prototypes in AI tools or code to communicate concepts, build alignment, and pressure-test real experiences
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, GTM, and Customer Success - translating what customers need to buy, launch, renew, and expand into product experiences that actually work
- Feel comfortable and creative in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment
- What you'd actually work on depends on staffing - we'll figure that out together once we've seen your work and understand where you'd have the most fun and impact.
- We're excited about proving outcomes leaders trust, making complex workflows feel easy, and making Speak the most effective solution on the market.
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Speak's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.