Product Lead, AI-Powered Language Tutor

Speak; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at a

Global in nature

Offices in SF, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo

Impact people’s lives

Job summary

Speak is hiring a Product Lead for Learning Technology to own product direction across voice, AI platform, and evaluations. You will partner with founders, engineering, and research leaders to decide when to use external models, improve systems, or build proprietary solutions.

This hands-on leadership role requires building and guiding PMs across Voice ML, AI Platform, Content Quality, and Memory while influencing key technical product decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep technical product experience with AI/ML or similarly complex systems.
• Measurable impact from taking a capability to production.
• Strong product judgment linking tech improvements to user experience.
• Experience leading multiple related product areas and delivering results.
• Direct experience hiring, managing, and developing PMs.
• Clear communication with technical teams, researchers, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own Learning Technology product direction across voice, AI platform and evaluations, learner memory, and generated-content quality.
• Work with Core Learning to identify model behavior, lesson quality, personalization, or real-time interaction improvements.
• Decide when to adopt a new model, fine-tune, build, or use external services, balancing quality, latency, and cost.
• Shape evaluation and release decisions for learner speech and real-time voice, including ASR, TTS, and new models.
• Set product requirements for the Tutor agent harness, model-serving and shared AI tooling.
• Collaborate with Content Quality and Learning Design to improve generated lessons and evaluations.
• Take promising research and prototypes through integration, production measurement, and iteration.
• Hire, coach, and manage PMs who can own technical product areas.

Skills

Deep technical product experience with

Product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring and coaching PMs

Clear communication

Decision-making

Job description

Speak is hiring a Product Lead for Learning Technology to own product direction across voice, AI platform, and evaluations. You will partner with founders, engineering, and research leaders to decide when to use external models, improve systems, or build proprietary solutions.

This hands-on leadership role requires building and guiding PMs across Voice ML, AI Platform, Content Quality, and Memory while influencing key technical product decisions.