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.

As a Temporary Recruiting Coordinator at Speak, you’ll play a vital role in both the day-to-day execution and strategic operations of our hiring function. This role blends coordination with recruiting operations—supporting not just interview logistics, but also enhancing employer brand, streamlining workflows, and bringing data-driven insight to our hiring efforts. You’ll work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and cross-functional teams to help deliver a thoughtful, inclusive, and efficient hiring process. This is a short-term, high-impact opportunity to shape the infrastructure that powers how we attract and hire top talent at Speak.

This is temporary, 6-month hybrid role in San Francisco.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Schedule and coordinate interviews across teams and time zones with precision.

• Act as the primary point of contact for candidates, ensuring a welcoming and responsive experience.

• Manage candidate records and communications in our applicant tracking system (ATS), Ashby.

• Support recruiters in candidate sourcing and outreach, when needed.

• Evaluate and refine interview workflows to ensure efficiency, consistency, and a great candidate experience.

• Build and maintain internal documentation around recruiting best practices, FAQs, and process guidelines.

• Partner with the team to implement scalable systems and tools that streamline hiring operations.

• Collaborate with internal teams to enhance our recruiting related content across the entire candidate life cycle.

• Help coordinate and promote select recruiting-related events
  

What We’re Looking For

• Prior experience as a recruiting coordinator, recruiting operations associate, or similar role.

• Familiarity with recruiting tools and ATS platforms like Ashby, Lever, or Greenhouse.

• Strong organizational skills and a knack for managing complex calendars and fast-moving pipelines.

• A process-oriented mindset with a drive to improve systems, documentation, and workflows.

• Comfort analyzing and reporting on recruiting metrics.

• Passion for creating exceptional candidate experiences and a brand-forward approach to hiring.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently, prioritize competing tasks, and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience in startup or high-growth environments is a must.

• Availability for a temporary engagement of 6 months, with flexibility as needed.

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.