Engineering Manager, Grammarly
Assist, Superhuman Go
$298-416k
AI-powered writing assistant
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AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$298-416k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Has 3+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent
- Brings hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating ML models, with a strong intuition for model quality and data-driven iteration
- Has shipped user-facing products at scale, with a deep appreciation for UX quality and a bias toward getting value in front of users quickly
- Demonstrates strong technical breadth across browser/extension development, ML/AI infrastructure, and full-stack product engineering
- Has experience building systems that operate across diverse surfaces (browser extensions, native apps, web applications) and understands the unique challenges of each
- Shows a track record of managing ambiguity — defining strategy, making tradeoffs, and shipping in fast-moving, early-stage product areas
- Communicates clearly and influences effectively across engineering, product, design, and leadership
- Is energized by the challenge of building proactive AI experiences that anticipate user needs rather than waiting for explicit requests
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Assist team within Superhuman Go
- This is an opportunity to build and scale a pervasive AI assistant that constantly observes what people are doing and proactively surfaces agents that can help them in the moment — before they even have to ask
- Superhuman Go is our proactive AI assistant that knows what you know and offers help without you having to ask
- We’re combining Grammarly’s decade-long investment in understanding user context across every application with Coda’s packs ecosystem connecting to over 800 tools
- Grammarly has built an AI superhighway that works everywhere users do — and the Assist team is responsible for bringing thousands of agents to that highway, training models to match what users are doing with the agent that can help them most
- The Assist team sits at the heart of this vision
- You’ll lead a team of 8+ engineers building the intelligence layer that understands what users are doing — across browser tabs, native applications, Superhuman Mail, and Coda Docs — and matches them with the right agent at the right time
- This means training and evaluating models that interpret diverse user contexts, building the proactive surfacing system that decides when and how to offer help, and shipping polished user-facing experiences across multiple surfaces
- Lead and grow a team of 8+ engineers, providing mentorship, career development, and fostering a high-performance engineering culture
- Own the technical direction for proactive agent surfacing — from understanding user context to matching them with the right agent at the right time
- Drive the development of models that interpret user activity across applications and match it with relevant agents from our growing ecosystem
- Build evaluation frameworks to measure model quality and user impact, iterating rapidly based on what works
- Ship compelling user-facing products across our Chrome extension, native desktop application, and integrations with Superhuman Mail and Coda Docs
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, ML research, and platform teams to deliver an end-to-end experience
- Move us from a world where users must come and ask for help to one where we proactively use our deep understanding of user activity to surface the agent that can help them most
- Balance technical ambition with pragmatic execution — shipping incremental value while building toward the proactive assistant vision
Our take
From professional writing to everyday correspondence, effective communication is critical. Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps people write clearly and without mistakes, checking spelling, grammar, and other potential pitfalls.
Grammarly was originally launched as a subscription service for students, although the platform has moved into the mainstream in the last decade. It went freemium in 2015 and now works across more than 500,000 applications and websites, including email clients, enterprise software, and word processors. Paid tiers give users more tools beyond grammar and spelling checks, including things like word choice, sentence rewrites, tone adjustments, fluency, and formality level.
The company has been profitable since the beginning and now has a valuation of more than $13 billion, placing it among the 10 most valuable startups in the US. The AI writing assistant space is heating up, and Grammarly is hoping to defend its position against offerings including Scalenut, Ginger and Microsoft's Editor by the release of its SDK, making it far easier to integrate Grammarly into other applications. So far, this has been used in over 4,000 products and earned excellent ratings and increased user numbers of Grammarly's service.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2019
$90m
LATE VC
Total funding: $400m
Company benefits
- Support for professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback
- Global, local, and team-specific events and programs
- Catered lunches
- Gym and recreation stipends
- Admission discounts
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity
- Support to set up a home office
- Ample and defined time off
- 401(k) matching
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alex Shevchenko
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Studied at Vienna's International University before receiving an MBA from the University of Toronto. Co-founded MyDropBox.com in 2006. The company was bought by Blackboard Inc. three years later. Co-founded Grammarly in 2009.
Max Lytvyn
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Studied for an MBA at Vanderbilt University before joining Blacboard Inc. as Director of Product Strategy in 2007. Was General Manager and then Partner at Sciworth Labs from 2004 to 2013. Was a Board Member at Uniweb and invested in farmland investment platform FarmTogether.
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