Account Executive - 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.

Speak for Business (S4B) is Speak's enterprise arm — a holistic solution that helps employees get comfortable speaking the languages their business success depends on. We've already grown S4B to hundreds of logos globally, with our deepest footprint in Korea and Japan, and we're now investing heavily across Engineering, Product, Content, and Go-to-Market to make B2B one of Speak's biggest growth engines. It's a rare 0-to-1 moment inside a company that's already scaled — and the AE we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page .

We're looking for an Account Executive in Korea to drive new ARR with our B2B customers. You'll own the full cycle — targeting, building relationships with executive decision-makers, and closing complex enterprise deals across the Speak suite. This is a rare chance to accelerate your career in AI, build on the foundation our Korea team has already laid, sharpen the playbook, and partner closely with the dedicated Engineering, Product, Content, and CS teams we've already built for S4B.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based in our Seoul (Seongsu) office.

What you'll do at Speak:

Build a territory plan and own a pipeline of enterprise accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently exceed quota

Run disciplined discovery and value-selling with executive buyers to drive new ARR and expansion

Develop account plans that map company priorities, multi-thread at the senior level, and surface expansion paths

Partner cross-functionally with CSMs, SDRs, Marketing, and Product to position Speak and move deals forward

Strengthen executive relationships through in-person meetings and networking

Read market signals, adapt strategy, and contribute to how the sales motion evolves

Communicate fluently in business English with Speak's global team day-to-day

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

5+ years closing new and upsell business in HR, L&D, or adjacent B2B SaaS, especially selling to companies with 5,000+ FTEs

A consistent track record of generating your own pipeline and hitting net-new targets

Experience managing complex 3–12 month sales cycles end-to-end (outbound, SDR alignment, trials, business cases, proposals, negotiation, upsell)

A clear sales methodology that creates value for customers

Familiarity with modern AI sales tech stack tools

While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have:

EdTech or language learning sales experience to HR / L&D / Talent buyers

A track record of thriving in fast-changing environments