APAC People Ops Generalist - 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 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.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Speak is scaling fast across APAC. We've more than doubled our team across Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in just over a year, with continued hiring through 2026. Our People Ops team runs lean, and we're adding a Generalist to strengthen our operational capacity across all three markets.
You'll manage key aspects of the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, contracts, HRIS, and multi-market compliance), improve and document the processes that support it, and over time help the team turn what works into scalable infrastructure. We're at the stage where the processes that supported a smaller team need to become the systems that scale across three markets, and you'll be a key part of making that happen alongside the rest of the team.
This role is meaningful and hands-on. You'll work across three legal entities, solve real problems that affect how people experience Speak...