Head of US Growth
13 hours ago
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 the Head of US Growth, you will be responsible for growing our consumer business, launching new markets and leading marketing both in terms of strategy and hands-on execution. Speak has quickly become one of the top language learning apps in Asia. We've begun replicating this success at a smaller scale across tier 1 western markets, and we're looking for a leader that can effectively balance our centralized playbook with domestic market needs to drive growth.
What you'll be doing
- Own growth performance of the US market, and other tier 1 English speaking markets, across all key metrics
- Identify the biggest growth opportunities and lead strategic initiatives for the US market
- Develop and implement comprehensive marketing strategies to increase both brand awareness as well as more targeted user acquisition
- Help drive content creation, creative development, and localization efforts to ensure relevance
- Collaborate with the central marketing team and other markets to ensure alignment and leverage best practices
- Communicate market-specific product needs, working closely with product/engineering to deliver on them
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional global teams
- Establish policies that promote company culture and vision locally
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members to achieve business objectives and ensure team motivation
- Generalist marketer with strong enough technical skills to think about campaigns, channels, and priorities quantitatively
- At least 7-10 years of experience in tech startups in a growth or marketing role, with a focus on growth in the US
- Proficient in analytics and using insights to inform decision-making, especially in the context of marketing and attribution
- Spent substantial time in target market, developing an understanding of local culture and needs, though not a hard requirement to be located there currently
- Collaborative mindset and can partner effectively with other teams across markets and disciplines
- Strong leadership qualities with the ability to build high-performance teams
- Passionate about the problem and mission we're trying to solve
- $175K - $250K • Offers Equity
At Speak, our compensation philosophy is based on work experience, interview performance, leveling and other factors evaluated during the hiring process.
Why work at Speak
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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