Speak
Product Designer, Design Systems
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
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About the role
- By agent-first, we mean the system is structured so humans and AI agents can make the same good decisions: choosing the right components, applying the right patterns, using consistent names, and reviewing UI against shared rules.
- This is a systems thinker, high-craft, high-collaboration role.
- You'll work closely with dedicated engineers who will be your collaborators in bringing this to life across our product surfaces.
Responsibilities
- We take craft seriously, iterate fast, and value a high-trust critique-and-build culture.
- Design ↔ Engineering workflow improvements.
- Build and evolve the components we actually need - prioritizing the highest-leverage gaps, pressure-testing them in real product work, and turning repeated decisions into durable patterns.
- Establish agent-first systems and workflows - rules + semantics that help humans and agents use the system correctly without depending on tribal knowledge. Set them up to show up in the right moments to create efficiency and consistency across teams.
- Set the operating cadence with design and engineering - a contribution/review rhythm that keeps the system coherent and adopted.
- We're hiring a seasoned Designer to improve how design and engineering work together, starting with a world-class, agent-first design system.
- You'll own the design quality, semantics, and product usefulness of the system
Requirements
- Taste you can defend.
- You can pinpoint what's off (spacing, motion, interaction states) and explain what's right for Speak and why.
Nice to have
- Shipped consumer-scale mobile products across many markets/locales.
- You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
- 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.
- 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.
- We're helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
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 a small, high-craft team that sits 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.
- We have something to prove - and we care about doing work that is both useful and genuinely excellent.
- 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.
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