Product Lead, AI Tutor & Learning Tech

speak.com; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Speak is seeking a Product Lead for Learning Technology to own the direction of our learner-focused AI-powered tutor. You will collaborate with founders, engineering, and research leaders to determine when to adopt external models or build internal capabilities, shaping how we deliver high-quality, personalized language lessons across languages.

You'll lead PMs across Voice ML, AI Platform, Content Quality, and Memory, driving priority areas, evaluating models, and ensuring reliable performance

Qualifications

• Deep technical product experience with AI/ML or similarly complex systems.
• Experience taking a technical capability or prototype into production with measurable impact.
• Strong product judgment linking technical improvements to user experience.
• Experience leading multiple related product areas and delivering cross-team results.
• Direct experience hiring, managing, and developing PMs.

Responsibilities

• Own Learning Technology product direction across voice, AI platform, and evaluations, learner memory, and generated-content quality.
• Identify changes in model behavior or lesson quality that improve Tutor use and learning.
• Decide when to adopt a new model, fine-tune, build, or use external services based on quality, latency, and cost.
• Shape evaluation and release decisions for learner speech and real-time voice, including ASR and TTS.
• Set requirements for Tutor agent harness and shared AI tooling to ensure reliability and capabilities.
• Collaborate with Content Quality and Learning Design to improve lessons and content evaluations.
• Take prototypes through integration, measurement, and iteration; decide to build, buy, extend, or stop.

Skills

AI/ML product

Technical product leadership

Model evaluation

Cross-functional leadership

Hiring PMs

Job description

Speak is seeking a Product Lead for Learning Technology to own the direction of our learner-focused AI-powered tutor. You will collaborate with founders, engineering, and research leaders to determine when to adopt external models or build internal capabilities, shaping how we deliver high-quality, personalized language lessons across languages.

You'll lead PMs across Voice ML, AI Platform, Content Quality, and Memory, driving priority areas, evaluating models, and ensuring reliable performance