Staff Product Designer

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

Speak is seeking an experienced Product Designer to join our growing team of 3!

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of language learning. This IC role will help designing innovative AI-driven conversational experiences that redefine how language is taught and learned. Partnering closely with our CEO, CTO, and cross-functional teams, you'll play a key role in developing product strategy, creating new interactions, and evolving our core product experience.

In this high-impact position, you'll have the chance to design novel experiences across voice, audio, and video interactions, putting your stamp on features and product direction for an app that is already beloved by users.

What you'll be doing

• Work with teams across product, design, and engineering to prioritize and spec out new features to build
• Work directly with engineering to ensure a feature gets built, balancing your vision, technical feasibility, and user value
• Design new features all the way from concept to finalized pixels
• Design the UX and UI of new features across platforms, developing and implementing a consistent design language
• Take focused ownership of designing our AI tutoring product, rethinking the way our users learn language from the ground up
• Help support miscellaneous design work across the company as needed

What we're looking for?

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Why work at Speak

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.