About us

Our mission is to become the de facto way people learn foreign languages. We begin by teaching the next billion people English and Spanish.

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 30 countries globally and are continuing to expand to more markets in the coming months. The company is well funded, raising a recent Series B backed by investors like OpenAI, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, and others. We’re a team of 60 based primarily in SF, Seoul, Tokyo, and Ljubljana.

• Qualifications:

  • 3+ years design experience within an agency or in-house creative department

  • Proven experience in graphic design within a media marketing context

  • Familiarity with the nuances of different social platforms (Linkedin, YouTube, TikTok, etc.)

  • Basic understanding of performance marketing principles, analytics, and tools

  • You possess an ability to "think outside the box", especially in situations with constraints

  • You demonstrate mastery of design principles such as contrast, alignment, repetition, and proximity

  • Expertise in Figma, Powerpoint/Keynote, Illustrator and image editing software such as Photoshop

  • Understanding of motion and animation software such as After Effects, Keynote’s animation capabilities or other

• Responsibilities:

  • Conceptualize and produce visually striking branded assets tailored for various marketing channels such as LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, and others

  • Help to formulate our internal visual design strategy, and ensure visual design excellence

  • Design branded emails that engage our customers throughout the customer journey

  • Motion Graphics and Video Editing/Production:

  • Conceptualize and produce videos from diverse content sources and optimize them for platform-specific distribution

  • Collaborate with content creators and marketers to ensure brand consistency, engagement, and conversions through our video content

Why work at Speak

1. Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing super quickly, we just raised our Series B and an additional extension 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 30 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 orientatio