Thai & Asian Languages Content Lead

Introduction

Ling is a fast-growing language learning app laser-focused on the languages the world's biggest edtech companies ignore — Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, and beyond. We're a tech company first: everything we build lives inside a mobile app with real product constraints, and we move fast. Thai is our flagship language, and we're building a curriculum that will set the standard for how our entire Asian language family is taught. If you've ever wished there was a genuinely good app for learning Thai — and its neighboring languages — this is your chance to build it.

Right now our language team is small (3 people) and nimble. We're looking for someone who can come in, own their domain, and — if the fit is right — grow into leading the team.

Expectations and Outcomes

Responsibilities

• Own the Thai course entirely: quality, consistency, scope, and roadmap

• Design a best-in-class Thai curriculum that is built to scale — structured so it can be adapted and localized across related Asian languages (Lao, Khmer, Burmese, and others in the Thai language family)

• Establish curriculum design principles and content standards that the broader language team can work from

• Write and review conversations, vocabulary sets, grammar notes, and cultural insights that are natural, engaging, and beginner-appropriate

• Ensure grammar concepts are accurately represented and scaffolded within app constraints (short lessons, max 10 new words, one sentence structure per lesson)

• Manage audio production workflows using tools like Narakeet

• Manage content in Firebase and Lokalise

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and other language specialists to ship on time

• Over time: potentially take on a leadership role within the language team, coordinating other language specialists and owning cross-language curriculum consistency

Requirements

Must-haves:

• Native Thai speaker with deep intuition for natural, contemporary usage

• English at C2 or near-native level — you'll write, communicate, and collaborate entirely in English

• Experience in edtech, curriculum development, instructional design, or language teaching

• Comfort working in a fast-paced startup where priorities shift and autonomy is expected

• Understanding that Ling is a tech product — content lives inside strict structural and UX constraints, not a textbook

• An eye for systems: you think about how to build things that scale, not just solve the problem in front of you

Strong pluses:

• Knowledge of or genuine interest in related Asian languages (Lao, Khmer, Burmese, or others in the region)

• Hands-on experience with Narakeet, Firebase, or Lokalise (or comparable tools)

• Familiarity with CEFR frameworks (A1–B1 range is our primary target)

• Background teaching Thai to foreigners or designing materials for adult learners

• Knowledge of tonal language pedagogy and the specific challenges non-native learners face

• Prior experience coordinating or mentoring a small content or language team

You'll Thrive Here If You…

• Take ownership instinctively — no one will micromanage this content

• Can zoom out to curriculum strategy and zoom in to fix a single awkward sentence

• Think in systems: you want to build frameworks others can follow, not just produce content

• Get energized by constraints rather than frustrated by them

• Have leadership ambitions and want room to grow into them

• Want your work to reach a global audience of real learners, not sit in a Google Doc

Desired Qualifications

Skills

Benefits

How To Apply

About us

Founded in 2016, Ling is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. Our mission is simple: we want to unite the world by connecting people from different cultures. That's why our team developed the Ling app - a language learning app focused on offering high-quality lesson content for Asian and Eastern European languages.