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

Speakeasy Labs, Inc.is seeking a Product Designer to join our growing team in San Francisco, CA.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of language learning. This IC role will focus on 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 already beloved by users around the world.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design innovative AI-driven conversational experiences that redefine how language is taught and learned

• Partner closely with the company's CEO, CTO, and cross-functional teams to play a key role in developing product strategy, creating new interactions, and evolving core product experience through design

• Design novel experiences across voice, audio, and video interactions

• Work with teams across product, design, and engineering to prioritize and set the specification for new features to build

• Work directly with engineering teams to ensure a feature gets built, balancing the Product Designer's vision, technical feasibility, and user value

• Design new features all the way from concept to finalized pixels

• Design the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) of new features across platforms, developing and implementing a consistent design language

• Design AI tutoring products and support technical design work across the company as needed

What We're Looking For

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Design, Web Design, or a closely related field

• Minimum Experience: 6 years of progressively responsible experience in product design for consumer-facing products or a related role

• Minimum Skills: Must have 4 years of experience leading design projects for web and mobile products; 2 years of experience prototyping, micro-interactions, utilizing motion, and creating design palettes; 2 years of experience designing a consumer/content-forward app, audio and speaking experiences

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.

Compensation