Head of Growth - Korea
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 hasnโt 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 worldโs 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.
์คํฝ ํ๊ตญ ํ์ Head of Growth๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์ต๋๋ค.
์คํฝ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ์์ฅ์ธ ํ๊ตญ์์, ์ฌ์ฉ์ ํ๋๋ถํฐ ์์ต ์ฑ์ฅ, ๋ฆฌํ ์ ๊น์ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ์ ๋ต์ ์๋ฆฝํ๊ณ ์คํํ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด ์ญํ ์ ํผํฌ๋จผ์ค ๋ง์ผํ , CRM, ํผ๋ ์ต์ ํ, ์ ๊ท ์ฑ๋ ๋ฐ๊ตด ๋ฑ ์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ง์ผํ ์ ๋ต์ ์ด๋๋ ๋์์, ๋ธ๋๋ ๋ฐ ํ๋ก๋ํธ ํ๊ณผ์ ํ์ ์ ํตํด ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋๋ชจํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ํ, ์คํฝ์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ์กฐ์ง๊ณผ ๊ธด๋ฐํ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์์์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ค์ผ์ผ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
ํฌ์ง์ ์ ๋ณด
์ง๋ฌด๋ช : Head of Growth
๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง: ์์ธ, ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ
๊ณ ์ฉ ํํ: ์ ๊ท์ง
ํฌ์ง์ ์ ๋ฌด
ํ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ฑ ์์ง๋๋ค. ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌํ ์ ์ ๋ต์ ํตํด ๊ตฌ๋ ์ ์๋ฅผ ํ๋ํ๊ณ LTV:CAC ๋น์จ์ ๊ฐ์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
์ฐ๊ฐ $NM ์ด์์ ๋ง์ผํ ์์ฐ์ ์ด์ํ๋ฉฐ, ๋์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์์ดํฐ๋ธ ์์ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ์คํ, ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ๋งค์ฒด ์งํ์ ํตํด ํผํฌ๋จผ์ค ๋ง์ผํ ์ ๋ฆฌ๋ํ๊ณ ํ์ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
์๋ก์ด ์ฑ์ฅ ์ฑ๋(์: ํ๋ก๋ํธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ฃจํ, ๋์ฒด ์ ๋ฃ ์ฑ๋, ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ/ํจํค์ง ํ์ ๋ฑ)์ ์๋ณํ๊ณ , ๊ฒ์ฆํ๊ณ , ์ค์ผ์ผํฉ๋๋ค.
Paid UA, CRM ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์์ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ํ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๊ณ ์ฝ์นญํฉ๋๋ค.
Paid ๋ง์ผํ , CRM, ํผ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ, ํ๋ก๋ํธ ์ฌ์ฉ ๋ฑ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์งํ์ ๋ํด ์ผ๊ฐ/์ฃผ๊ฐ ์์ค์ ๊ฐ์์ฑ์ ํ๋ณดํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ฆฌํฌํ ์์คํ ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์ต์ ํํฉ๋๋ค.
ํ๋ก๋ํธ, ๋ธ๋๋, ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ผํธ๋ด ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ํ๊ณผ ํ์ ํ์ฌ ํ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ง๋ ์ ๋ต์ ์๋ฆฝํ๊ณ ์คํํฉ๋๋ค.
ํ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ๋ธ๋๋ ํฌ์ง์ ๋๊ณผ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ ๋ต ์๋ฆฝ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์์ฅ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ง์ํฉ๋๋ค.
ํ์ ์ญ๋
๊ฒ์ฆ๋ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ ๊ฒฝํ: ์ฐ๊ฐ $10M ์ด์์ ๋ง์ผํ ์์ฐ์ ์ด์ํ๋ฉฐ ์น๊ณผ ์ฑ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ธ, ๊ณ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ /์๋น์ ์คํํธ์ ์์์ 7๋ ์ด์์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ
ํ ์คํ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ์ ๋ฌธ์ฑ: ํผํฌ๋จผ์ค ๋ง์ผํ , ํผ๋ ์ต์ ํ, ์คํ ์ค๊ณ/์ด์ ๋ฑ ์ ์์ญ์ ๊ฑธ์น ์ค๋ฌด ๋ฐ ์ ๋ต์ ๊ฒฝํ
๋น๋ ๋ง์ธ๋์ : ์์คํ , ๋์๋ณด๋, ํ๋ก์ธ์ค๋ฅผ ์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ์ค๊ณํ๊ณ ๊ตฌ์ถํด๋ณธ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๋ต ์๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ์คํ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฃผ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ์ญ๋
๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์คํ๋ ฅ: ๋ค์ํ ์ฑ๊ณผ ์งํ๋ฅผ ํตํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ํด์ํ๊ณ , ๋ง์ผํ /ํ๋ก๋ํธ/๋ธ๋๋ ํ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์คํ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ
ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉ ๋ฐ ์ฝ์นญ ๊ฒฝํ: ๋ฐ์ด๋ ๋ง์ผํ /๊ทธ๋ก์ค ํ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๊ณ , ์ฝ์นญ ๋ฐ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ฃผ๋ํด๋ณธ ์ค์ง์ ๊ฒฝํ
ํ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ๋ํ ๊น์ ํต์ฐฐ๊ณผ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ง์ธ๋์ : ํ๊ตญ ์๋น์์ ๋ํ ๋์ ์ดํด๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฒ ์คํธ ํ๋ํฐ์ค๋ฅผ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์งํํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ
์์ด ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ: ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํ๊ณผ ์ํํ๊ฒ ํ์ ํ๊ณ , ํ๊ตญ ์์ฅ ์ ๋ต์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ชฉํ์ ์ ๋ ฌ์ํฌ ์ ์๋ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ญ๋
๐ฌ ๋๋ฃ์ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ
์คํฝ์ ๋ธ๋๋ ๋ง์ผํฐ ๋ํ์
๋๋ค. ์คํฝ์ ์ง๋ 5๋
๊ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ , ํ๊ตญ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋์ ๋ธ๋๋ ์ธ์ง๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๊ณ , ํฌ๋ค๋ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ์ ๋ต๊ณผ ์ธก์ ๋ฑ์ ์์ด, ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์์๊ฐ๋ ์๋ฃจ์
์ ๋์
ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, C๋ ๋ฒจ๋ถํฐ ์ค๋ฌด์ง๊น์ง ๊ทธ๋ก์ค์ ๋ํ ์ดํด๋๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ๋์ ํ์
๋๋ค.
๋๋ถ์๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํด์จ ์คํฝ, ํ์ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ๋ง์ผํ
์ ๋ณ๊ณก์ ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์คํฝ์ ์์ฅ์ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ์ค์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ก๋ ์์ ํ ์๋ก์ด ์๋๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉฐ ์๋ก์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋๋ชจํด์์ฃ . ์คํฝ์ ๋ง์ผํ
์ด ๋๋ณด์ด๋ ์ด์ ์ด๊ณ ์. ์ ๋ ์คํฝ์ด ๊ณ์ํด์ ์คํฝ๋ง์ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ํ์ํ ๊ทธ๋ก์ค ๋ง์ผํ
ํ์ ๋ฆฌ๋ํด ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ด์ ์ ์๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ผ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.---
About This Role
Weโre looking for a Head of Growth (Korea) to lead Speakโs next stage of growth in its most important market. Based in Seoul, this person will be fully responsible for driving sustainable user acquisition, revenue expansion, and long-term retention in Koreaโsetting the vision, building the systems, and leading a high-performing team to deliver bold business outcomes.
As a key member of both the Korea leadership team and Speakโs global Growth team, youโll oversee all aspects of our local growth strategyโincluding paid media, lifecycle marketing, funnel optimization, and new growth experiments. Youโll also act as a key advisor to brand and product teams to ensure our broader consumer business in Korea is set up for long-term success.
What youโll be doing
Own and deliver Koreaโs growth targetsโgrowing our subscriber base while improving LTV:CAC through data-driven acquisition and retention strategies
Lead and scale our performance marketing efforts, managing >$00M+ annual budget with high creative output, experimentation, and media efficiency
Architect and align Koreaโs full-funnel growth strategy across Paid, CRM, Brand, Influencer, and Partnerships, driving measurable impact from upper-funnel investment, establishing incrementality frameworks, and ensuring channel synergy across acquisition and retention
Identify, validate, and scale new growth channels (e.g. product-led growth loops, alternative paid media, pricing/packaging innovation)
Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary growth team across paid UA, CRM and more
Build and optimize reporting systems for daily/weekly visibility across paid marketing, CRM, funnel performance, and product usage
Partner with Brand and Content teams to align messaging, creative strategy, and audience targeting with performance objectives
Collaborate with product, brand, and central growth teams to align roadmaps with local market opportunities
Contribute to Koreaโs brand positioning and comms strategy in service of broader market growth
What weโre looking for
Proven growth leadership: 7+ years in high-growth tech or consumer startups, with ownership of $10M+ annual marketing budgets across both web and app
Full-stack growth expertise: Deep hands-on experience across performance marketing, upper-funnel brand integration, funnel optimization, and experimentationโable to translate brand awareness and messaging strategy into measurable subscriber growth and improved LTV:CAC
Builder mentality: Comfortable building systems, dashboards, and processes from scratchโwhile operating at both strategic and executional levels
Strong operator: Ability to synthesize performance signals and drive cross-functional execution across marketing, product, and brand
Team leader & coach: Track record of building, mentoring, and managing high-performing growth and marketing teams
Local fluency, global mindset: Deep understanding of Korean consumer behavior with the ability to adapt and apply global best practices
Business fluency in English: Capable of leading collaboration with global stakeholders and aligning local efforts to global goals
Why work at Speak
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time:ย 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 youโll love working with:ย 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:ย 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 youโll 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:ย 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. Weโre 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.