Engineering Manager, Growth Acquisition

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States and, depending on business needs, they must meet in person for collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where their team is based.

This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Growth Acquisition team. This role will lead a team of four engineers and driving forward projects aimed at growing Grammarly's top-of-funnel traffic and conversions. The responsibilities for this role include project planning, scoping and coordination across stakeholders on multiple teams, career trajectory management for direct reports, and ownership of several high-traffic top-of-funnel interactive interfaces important to Grammarly's User Journey. This role will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across product, marketing, design, and data science to conceptualize and execute projects impactful to driving user growth at Grammarly.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers to tackle ambiguous growth engineering problems. You will be responsible for work and projects that meaningfully and measurably impact Grammarly's business. The growth path for this role would include expanding the team and increasing the scope and complexity of projects the team can cover.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and grow a high-performing team of 4 growth engineers.
• Own planning and prioritization of work that will help drive user growth at Grammarly.
• Manage day-to-day execution and alignment between stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Has 1-3 years of experience as an engineering manager.
• Has 6+ years of prior experience working as an engineer building user-facing features.
• Has strong domain expertise in web front-end technologies - like React, TypeScript, NextJS.
• Has a strong track record of technical leadership and project delivery.
• Can work cross-functionally with Product, Marketing & Design partners delivering high-quality work.
• Experience with A/B experimentation, growth engineering, or similar.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and unlimited sick days 
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. 

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

United States: 

Zone 1: $250,000 – $284,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $225,000 – $255,000/year (USD)

For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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