Manager, Data Science (Core)

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 theFortune 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 Cloud 100, one of ’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of ’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of ’s Best Workplaces.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Manager or Senior Manager for Core Data Science who will use data to directly impact Grammarly’s products and strategy. This role will report to the Data Science Director of the Core Product and Quality Data Science organization, which contains multiple data science and software engineering teams. This role provides an opportunity for depth and ownership over our core product experience and broad cross-functional collaboration opportunities with our growth, enterprise, and quality data science teams. 

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 a Manager, Core Data Science, you will manage a team of data scientists responsible for identifying and sizing core product opportunities and evaluating the success of new product innovations and feature launches. You will need to see across teams and features to create a holistic picture of the state of our products using data while acting as a trusted thought partner to our product managers and leaders. 

In this role, you will:

• Own the technical vision and direction for your data science team (directly manage 5+ data scientists, with opportunities for team growth in the future).
• Act as a trustworthy data science thought partner to the Product team: Work closely with PMs and Product leadership to identify new opportunities and help direct and shape Grammarly's product roadmap using data.
• Dive deep into the data to become an expert on our product offerings and AI technical infrastructure to help the company make sound strategic decisions.
• Evangelize metrics best practices: Advocate for clear, useful, scalable North Star metrics, critically examine our metrics, and coach the team to improve them.
• Be an advocate for rapid and frequent experimentation: encourage experimentation best practices and ensure we learn and improve as a direct result.
• Develop processes and create cultural norms on the team that help people move more quickly and achieve a larger impact.
• Cultivate an ownership mindset and culture on your team and across product teams: provide the necessary metrics to help us understand what is working, what is not, and how to fix it.
• Set high performance and quality standards and coach team members to meet them; mentor and grow junior and senior IC talent.

• Has at least 2+ years of management experience.
• Has the ability and desire to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where things change quickly.
• Can wade through ambiguity and disagreement to chart a clear path forward and is highly skilled at bringing stakeholders together to reach alignment.
• Has strong communication skills and can express a transparent, trustworthy, data-driven point of view with senior leaders.
• Is a proactive and self-driven problem-solver who has independently spearheaded and driven complex, cross-functional projects to a successful outcome.
• Has the technical skills necessary to guide and coach the data science team to deliver impactful and high-quality work (expertise in statistics, A/B testing, SQL, and Python or R are a must).
• Has deep familiarity and experience with product metrics and KPIs, understanding how to measure the success of products at all stages of development.
• Has a strong product mindset, understands how great products operate and are built, and has extensive experience working with PMs.
• Has strong data intuition and detail orientation. Understands what to expect from product data. Can interpret and tease through complex data to find actionable insight. Skilled at spotting quality issues.
• Has a proven track record of developing useful metrics that gained traction within an organization and led to tangible outcomes.
• Has an experimentation mindset, adheres to experimentation best practices, and knows how to design and run high-impact experiments.
• Bonus points if you: 1.) Have experience directly driving product roadmap conversations, 2.) Have a mix of larger (~1000+ ees) tech company and startup experience.
• 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.

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 – $321,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $225,000 – $289,000/year (USD)

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. 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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