Product Manager - Growth

About us

Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language. We begin by teaching the next billion people English, Spanish, and French.

English is the global language of business, culture, and communication, and over 1.5 billion people around the world are actively trying to learn right now. Others dream of communicating with the half-billion native Spanish speakers across the globe. The problem is that it's nearly impossible to learn to speak a language without constant access to a speaking partner. Grammar and vocab apps don't really help – you need to actually converse with someone.

Speak is on a journey to fix this. We're creating an AI-powered experience that replicates the flow of a conversation, without needing a human on the other end. The goal is to make it radically more accessible to be able to have conversations in a foreign language and eventually help hundreds of millions of people gain fluency who otherwise wouldn't be able to.

We started on this journey over five years ago and we've still got a long ways to go. We're thoughtfully adding new team members only when we think they can truly play a big role in our mission.

Speak launched first in South Korea where we have quickly grown to become the top grossing education app in the country. We have now delivered this winning product to more than 40 countries globally and are continuing to expand to more markets in the coming months. The company is well funded, and as of December 2024, we've reached a $1B valuation with our Series C round, through key partners like Accel, OpenAI, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, and more. We’re a team of more than 90 based throughout 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.