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# Growth Marketing Intern at Speak

- **Company:** Speak
- **Location:** Seoul, South Korea
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/914807b0-3724-4c84-a17c-13bd69fd5dde

## Job description

## 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 looking for a Growth Marketing Intern to join our team in Seoul. You'll work across paid acquisition and CRM, helping us reach new learners and keep existing ones engaged. Day to day, you'll set up and help plan paid ad campaigns and lifecycle campaigns, and turn campaign data into clear takeaways. This is a 6-month contract role (with the possibility of extension), reporting to our Growth Marketing Manager. It's a great fit for someone who likes to take ownership: pulling the data, figuring out what to do next, and sharing progress without waiting to be asked.

## What you'll do at Speak

- Launch and manage B2B ad campaigns on LinkedIn and Meta across Korea, Japan and Taiwan, including campaign and ad set setup, lead gen forms, InMail ads and UTM tracking
- Support B2C paid social by uploading creator content to Meta, monitoring performance and flagging what's working
- Report on paid channel performance by keeping campaign data up to date, writing weekly summaries and running retros on creator collaborations
- Write user-facing copy for email, push notifications, KakaoTalk, SMS and in-app messages, including variants for A/B tests, and plan image assets for CRM channels
- Set up CRM journeys based on campaign plans, including wait times, segment filters, random branches and A/B tests, along with landing page links and image URLs
- QA CRM campaign setups before launch to make sure everything goes out accurately
- Help run high-volume promotional campaigns during our peak season (December–January)

We'd love to hear from you if you have

- Hands-on experience with both paid media (Meta Ads Manager and/or LinkedIn Campaign Manager) and CRM or lifecycle marketing
- A strong sense of ownership and comfort pulling data, drawing conclusions and acting on them independently
- A proactive communication style: you share updates when work is done and suggest next steps
- Curiosity about growth marketing and experimentation
- A detail-oriented, organized approach and a habit of double-checking work before launch

While it's not required, it's an added plus if you have

- Experience with CRM tools such as Braze or [Customer.io](http://Customer.io)
- Familiarity with BigQuery or Google Sheets reporting
- Experience with Meta or Google Ads Manager
- Native-level Korean and professional working English (our team works across Korea and the US)

## 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, Tokyo, and Taipei, 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.

## About Speak

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Speak is an AI-powered language learning app that focuses on teaching conversational fluency through real-time speaking practice and instant feedback, without needing a human tutor.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; $1B valuation as of December 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with offices in Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Connor Zwick (CEO) and Andrew Hsu (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Language learning / EdTech
- **Target Customers**: B2C (individual language learners) and B2B (Speak for Business – over 200 enterprise customers)
- **Mission/Purpose**: “To reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.” The goal is to make conversational practice radically accessible so that hundreds of millions of people can gain fluency.

## Products & Services
- **Speak App**: A subscription-based mobile and web application (iOS, Android, Web) that uses a proprietary “Speak Method” – learn useful phrases, practice them out loud with AI-driven drills, then apply them in simulated real-world conversations. Supports English learning from eight source languages; plans to add Spanish and French.
- **Speak for Business**: A B2B tier for companies that want to provide English conversation training to their employees, currently serving 200+ corporate clients.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1 billion (December 2024, Series C led by Accel)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $171.3 million across six rounds; annual revenue estimated at $7.0 million (LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, OpenAI Startup Fund, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Buckley Ventures; individual angels include Sam Altman and Peter Thiel.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 10M+ app downloads, #1 English learning app in South Korea
  - Available in over 30 countries
  - Headcount grew 30.9% YoY to 166 employees (LinkedIn, May 2026)
  - B2B segment has 200+ customers
  - Average user engagement of 10–20 minutes per day

## Competitive Advantages
- **Conversation-first approach**: Unlike grammar/vocab apps, Speak teaches by making users speak out loud, using proprietary speech recognition and generative AI to provide immediate feedback.
- **AI tutor that scales**: Replicates natural conversation without needing a live human, making high-quality practice affordable ($20/month or $99/year).
- **Deep OpenAI partnership**: Early access to the latest speech AI from OpenAI (also an investor), giving a technological edge in voice interaction.
- **Strong product-market fit in Asia**: Proven adoption in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and expanding to other markets.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand target languages (Spanish and French are next)
- Scale Speak for Business globally
- Develop a standardized, accurate English fluency assessment (an AI-powered test)
- Continue to invest in AI research and engineering to improve tutoring effectiveness

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team passionate about language learning and AI; values efficacy over gamification.
- **Team & talent**: 166 people from companies like Meta, Google, DoorDash, Block, Dropbox, and Duolingo. Engineering office in Ljubljana, product and design hubs in San Francisco, operations in Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid/office-based across locations; employees encouraged to travel between offices; annual company offsite.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary and equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO, parental leave, 401(k), monthly wellness and language learning stipends, pet-friendly office (official company dog).
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling headcount (+30% YoY) with active roles in engineering, product, marketing, sales, and design.

## Sources
1. [speak.com/careers](https://www.speak.com/careers)
2. [speak.com](https://speak.com/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/usespeak](https://www.linkedin.com/company/usespeak)
4. [TechCrunch: OpenAI-backed Speak raises $78M at $1B valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/openai-backed-speak-raises-78m-at-1b-valuation-to-help-users-learn-languages-by-talking-out-loud/)
5. [Y Combinator: Speak](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speak)

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