Product Manager - Growth

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 Growth Product Manager at Speak, you will be responsible for scaling our consumer product to tens of millions of new learners across the globe. The ideal candidate will be someone who lives and breathes metrics, has a strong product intuition, and is excited to build a product growth engine at a rapidly scaling company. Speak is a next generation AI powered language learning tutor that is the most popular education app in markets like South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. This role is key in unlocking top of funnel growth through rapid experimentation and optimization, working closely with teams across engineering, design, analytics, marketing, and more.

What you’ll be doing

• Iterating on our growth model to help guide our strategy for growth and investment areas

• Conducting user research and analysis to generate insightful user-focused hypotheses for testing, aimed at improving funnel conversion, engagement, and retention

• Driving top of funnel growth by partnering closely with marketing teams as well as building new growth loops

• Increasing our active subscriber base by experimentally optimizing the entire onboarding funnel and reducing user time-to-value to increase conversion rate and ARPU

• Establishing and maintaining platforms for in-app price testing, onboarding, and web testing to enable quick, hypothesis-driven experimentation

• Defining KPIs, setting up and analyzing experiments, and developing a strong intuition for metric improvement

What we're looking for

• Strong track record shipping products users love

• Ability to build robust growth models and deeply understand how to move metrics through structured optimization of key metrics

• Experience building for consumers, particularly on mobile

• A strong foundation in data and hypothesis-driven methodologies for funnel improvement and user engagement

• Ability to conduct effective user interviews and user surveys to find the most important truths

• Strong technical understanding to work efficiently with engineers and technical, data-driven projects

• Clear and impactful communication skills, particularly in collaborating with cross-functional teams and aligning on strategies

• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize when confronted with limited resourcing and ambiguous opportunity areas

• Understanding that quality and speed are not mutually exclusive with effective scoping

• Someone that is passionate about the problem and mission we're trying to solve

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.