Thai & Asian Languages Content Lead

Ling is a fast-growing language learning app laser-focused on the languages the worlds biggest edtech companies ignore Thai Lao Khmer Burmese and beyond. Were 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 were building a curriculum that will set the standard for how our entire Asian language family is taught. If youve ever wished there was agenuinely goodapp for learning Thai and its neighboring languages this is your chance to build it.

• 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 likeNarakeet

• Manage content inFirebaseandLokalise

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

• Native Thai speaker with deep intuition for natural contemporary usage
• English at C2 or near-native level youll 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 atech 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
  
  

• Knowledge of or genuine interest in related Asian languages (Lao Khmer Burmese or others in the region)
• Hands-on experience withNarakeetFirebase orLokalise(or comparable tools)
• Familiarity with CEFR frameworks (A1B1 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
  
  

• Take ownership instinctively no one will micromanage this content
• Can zoom out to curriculum strategyandzoom 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
• Want your work to reach a global audience of real learners not sit in a Google Doc