Head of Growth - Korea

๐Ÿ“ Seoul
๐Ÿข Marketing
โฑ๏ธ FullTime
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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 hasnโ€™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 worldโ€™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.

์Šคํ”ฝ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŒ€์˜ Head of Growth๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šคํ”ฝ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ํš๋“๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๋ฆฌํ…์…˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ์ „๋žต์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹คํ–‰ํ•  ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ์—ญํ• ์€ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, CRM, ํผ๋„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ฐœ๊ตด ๋“ฑ ์ „๋ฐฉ์œ„์  ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ „๋žต์„ ์ด๋„๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ ํŒ€๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์Šคํ”ฝ์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ์กฐ์ง๊ณผ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์Šค์ผ€์ผ์—…์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ์ง€์…˜ ์ •๋ณด

  • ์ง๋ฌด๋ช…: Head of Growth

  • ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€: ์„œ์šธ, ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ

  • ๊ณ ์šฉ ํ˜•ํƒœ: ์ •๊ทœ์ง

ํฌ์ง€์…˜ ์—…๋ฌด

  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ํš๋“ ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌํ…์…˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ตฌ๋…์ž ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  LTV:CAC ๋น„์œจ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ $NM ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋†’์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์‹คํ—˜, ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋งค์ฒด ์ง‘ํ–‰์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ๋ฆฌ๋“œํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™•์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ฑ„๋„(์˜ˆ: ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ฃจํ”„, ๋Œ€์ฒด ์œ ๋ฃŒ ์ฑ„๋„, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ/ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ํ˜์‹  ๋“ฑ)์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒ€์ฆํ•˜๊ณ , ์Šค์ผ€์ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Paid UA, CRM ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ํŒ€์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฝ”์นญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Paid ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, CRM, ํผ๋„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ, ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋“ฑ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ง€ํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ผ๊ฐ„/์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ฆฌํฌํŒ… ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์„ผํŠธ๋Ÿด ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ํŒ€๊ณผ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋งž๋Š” ์ „๋žต์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹๊ณผ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰

  • ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋œ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ๊ฒฝํ—˜: ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ $10M ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์›น๊ณผ ์•ฑ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ธ, ๊ณ ์† ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ /์†Œ๋น„์ž ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์—์„œ์˜ 7๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ

  • ํ’€ ์Šคํƒ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ: ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, ํผ๋„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ์‹คํ—˜ ์„ค๊ณ„/์šด์˜ ๋“ฑ ์ „ ์˜์—ญ์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์‹ค๋ฌด ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜

  • ๋นŒ๋” ๋งˆ์ธ๋“œ์…‹: ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ, ๋Œ€์‹œ๋ณด๋“œ, ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด๋ณธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ์‹คํ–‰์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰

  • ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ: ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…/ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ/๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒ€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹คํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ

  • ํŒ€ ๋ฆฌ๋”ฉ ๋ฐ ์ฝ”์นญ ๊ฒฝํ—˜: ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…/๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ํŒ€์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฝ”์นญ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•ด๋ณธ ์‹ค์งˆ์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜

  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๊ณผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ธ๋“œ์…‹: ํ•œ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋†’์€ ์ดํ•ด๋„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ ํ”„๋ž™ํ‹ฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„์ง€ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ

  • ์˜์–ด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ: ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํŒ€๊ณผ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ์ •๋ ฌ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰

๐Ÿ’ฌ ๋™๋ฃŒ์˜ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ

์Šคํ”ฝ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํ„ฐ ๋‘ํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํ”ฝ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 5๋…„ ๊ฐ„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ธ์ง€๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ํŒฌ๋ค๋„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์ธก์ • ๋“ฑ์— ์žˆ์–ด, ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ž์„œ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, C๋ ˆ๋ฒจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค๋ฌด์ง„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋„๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ๋†’์€ ํŒ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•ด์˜จ ์Šคํ”ฝ, ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์˜ ๋ณ€๊ณก์ ์— ์™€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์Šคํ”ฝ์€ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•ด์™”์ฃ . ์Šคํ”ฝ์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์ด ๋‹๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ด์œ ์ด๊ณ ์š”. ์ €๋Š” ์Šคํ”ฝ์ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์Šคํ”ฝ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋กœ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€์„ ๋ฆฌ๋“œํ•ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ด์ „์— ์—†๋˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ผ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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About This Role

Weโ€™re looking for a Head of Growth (Korea) to lead Speakโ€™s 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 Koreaโ€”setting 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 Speakโ€™s global Growth team, youโ€™ll oversee all aspects of our local growth strategyโ€”including paid media, lifecycle marketing, funnel optimization, and new growth experiments. Youโ€™ll 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 youโ€™ll be doing

  • Own and deliver Koreaโ€™s growth targetsโ€”growing 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 Koreaโ€™s 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 Koreaโ€™s brand positioning and comms strategy in service of broader market growth

What weโ€™re 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 experimentationโ€”able to translate brand awareness and messaging strategy into measurable subscriber growth and improved LTV:CAC

  • Builder mentality: Comfortable building systems, dashboards, and processes from scratchโ€”while 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

  1. 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.

  2. Do your life's work with people youโ€™ll 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.

  3. 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 youโ€™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: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. Weโ€™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.