Strategic Finance

About the role

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 Our Strategic Finance team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, driving financial planning, forecasting, and cross-functional partnership. The team guides critical decisions through rigorous analysis and collaboration. We're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead who will partner with business leaders across the company to drive growth, surface insight, and shape investment decisions. This is a high-impact role on a lean team: you'll operate independently, bring structure to ambiguous problems, and influence senior leaders with clear financial narratives. You'll partner closely with senior leadership to strengthen executive-level visibility into financial performance, investment decisions, and growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models and economic frameworks to enable product vision and strategy; evaluate strategic product investments and enable strategic tradeoff decisions
• Own the financial strategy and analysis for new product development
• Build unit economics by segment, vertical, and motion to inform pricing, packaging, and where we lean in
• Support capital allocation decisions by evaluating returns on product investments, pricing changes, and operational initiatives
• Partner with go to market leadership to drive sales motions across all distribution channels, including global tiered consumer and enterprise channels
• Provide strategic guidance and insight to drive end‑to‑end long‑range planning, including assumptions, scenarios, pressure‑testing, and executive storytelling
• Surface insights to leadership by translating data into recommendations that shape product and company strategy
• Synthesize complex analyses into clear narratives and confidently communicate recommendations to leadership and executive stakeholders
• Advance financial reporting processes by leaning into AI tools and workflows and enhanced dashboards

Requirements

• 6-9 years in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role - with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred
• Advanced financial modeling skills to drive forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, and the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch with incomplete or complex data
• Strong AI tool enablement, able to work with frontier models and validate the fidelity of the output
• Direct experience supporting full planning cycles including long range planning, annual planning, quarterly re-forecasts, and board / investor-facing materials
• Familiarity with outcomes-based modeling and product led growth
• Fluency in SaaS and enterprise metrics to enable go to market motions
• Strong written communication in order to provide clear narratives to leadership and external stakeholders
• High ownership and high integrity, able to run processes end to end with agency and autonomy
• Why work at Speak
• 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.
• Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a

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