Sales Development Representative - 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 SDRs we hire will help shape it. To learn more, check out our B2B landing page .

About the Role

We’re looking for a high-energy Sales Development Representative (SDR) to qualify inbound interest, run thoughtful outbound campaigns, and partner with Account Executives to build pipeline. In addition to generating qualified meetings, this role is a closing role, owning and closing transactional opportunities. You’ll be the first touch for many prospects—diagnosing needs, shaping demand, and progressing opportunities to build pipeline and performance across our team.

What You’ll Do at Speak

Qualify inbound leads from web forms, events, and referrals; strong discovery skills to confirm fit, urgency, and buying roles

Design and execute outbound campaigns (email, phone, social, video) for target accounts and personas; personalize at scale using insights, triggers, and industry POVs

Generate SQLs and book meetings for AE partners; build clear handoffs (mutual agenda, notes, next steps) to maximize meeting kept and conversion to pipeline

Own and close transactional deals end-to-end (pricing, light negotiation, order execution) following defined guardrails and approval paths

Maintain precise CRM hygiene (stages, next steps, contacts, dispositions) and forecast your weekly outputs with accuracy

Continuously test & learn —A/B subject lines, sequences, talk tracks, and cadences; share wins with the team

Represent the brand with consultative, value-led conversations that educate and advance the buyer journey

We’d Love to Hear from You if you have

1–3+ years in SDR/BDR, inside sales (closing role), or high-volume customer-facing role (SaaS preferred)

Demonstrated success in both inbound qualification and outbound prospecting

Comfortable closing transactional deals with light negotiation

Excellent written and verbal communication; crisp note-taking and call recap discipline

Proficiency with CRM (HubSpot), sequencing tools (Lemlist), intent/signals (Exa, Indent), and LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Organized, curious, coachable; thrives in goal-driven environments; Looking to grow sales career with deal closing experience

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

Experience in EdTech or language learning