Speak is an AI English tutor on your phone that is the best way to become conversationally fluent in English.

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

We’re looking for a Head of Partnership Marketing to bring Speak’s partnership initiatives to the next level in terms of creativity, scale, operation, and measurability. Speak Korea is well known for our industry-leading partnership marketing campaigns, through collaborations with top-tier local influencers and scaled programs such as our affiliates and Speak Partners.

As a crucial leader within our Korea marketing team, you will be responsible for partnering with the most impactful voices in the market, finding a way to amplify Speak’s presence in the most effective and creative way, and scaling the learnings into a playbook that can further support Speak’s global markets in the rest of the world.

What you’ll be doing

• Evolve the strategy and the narrative of Speak’s partnership marketing, focusing on (but not limited to) influencer and celebrity collaborations across all tiers.

• Lead a small yet talented team of partnership marketers and interns to scale, measure and grow our collaboration capacity and operational excellence

• Ideate, experiment, and iterate on creative partnership marketing solutions, working together with our Brand and Growth Marketing teams

• Be the face of Speak Marketing team to external agencies and influencers, managing strong relationships with such key stakeholders

What we’re looking for

• Marketing Expertise: minimum 7 years of experience in marketing, including some level of exposure to partnership or influencer marketing, and experience in leading a team

• Storytelling/Brand Work: Strong track record of creative storytelling for complex & large-scale marketing campaigns (more than $1M/mo)

• Local Trends/Interests: Deep interest in media and content trends, with sensitivity to viral online content and recent local events

• Measurement/Analytics: Experience in building scalable measurement strategy/analytics, using tools such as Amplitude/Mode, is a huge plus!

• Business Fluency in English : Comfortable leading collaboration with global stakeholders, adopting and sharing cross-market insights

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.

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