Speechify

TechLead,WebCoreProduct&ChromeExtension

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Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Tech Lead, Web Core Product & Chrome Extension at Speechify. Skills: Technical leadership, Web product development, Chrome Extension development, Strategic product thinking, User experience design. Actively ship production code to the web products. Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap”

What You'll Achieve.

Make reading never a barrier to learning; Impact millions of lives

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience building and shipping products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users, Passion for the field and desire to build high-quality products that serve customer needs, Ability to work quickly to generate ideas and decide what can ship now and what needs time, Ability to engage or be heads down as needed in a busy, remote team, Ability to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs

What You'll Do.

Actively ship production code to the web products

Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap

Work on new and exciting features

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with your dedicated product team; Collaborate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs

Communication Scope

Solid communication skills

Full Job Description

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You’ll Do Actively ship production code to the web products Work closely with your dedicated product team Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap Have the opportunity to work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives An Ideal Candidate Should Have Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs Speed. You work quickly to generate

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