Korean-Japanese Curriculum Designer (Contract)

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 reputed company-reputed company-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get reputed company feedback, and reputed company 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 reputed company, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana. About this role We are looking for a full-time contractor (6-month contract), a Curriculum Designer/Content Writer to join Speak’s Content team and help create high-quality language learning in-app content. This role focuses on planning curricula and developing materials for Korean speakers learning Japanese. You will reputed company, edit, and localize innovative, engaging, and pedagogically sound materials for this specific audience. We are eager to work with world-class linguists/teachers/curriculum designers/content writers who have:

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• experience successfully teaching or developing learning modules/materials
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• Native-level Korean proficiency with strong cultural intuition for what resonates in the Korean market for Japanese learners.
• Native or near-native proficiency in Japanese (both spoken and written).
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• Based in Korea and willing to commit to 6 months full-time, with possibility of extension based on performance & business need

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• reputed company to communicate in English with the global teams based in US
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• Experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, generators, internal tools) to create instructionally sound, pedagogically reputed company, and scalable learning materials—reputed company simply asking ChatGPT for reputed company or drafts.
• Worked directly with EdTech or language-learning apps in roles involving curriculum design, content production, learning experience design, or pedagogical strategy.

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