Senior Corporate Counsel, Grammarly
$264-363k
2+ days a week in office
AI-powered writing assistant
Be an early applicant
AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$264-363k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 2 days per week and potentially other hubs 3 weeks per quarter
- Brings a proven background (8+ years) in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, due diligence, and integration activities, with training at a top-tier law firm and solid in-house experience
- Has experience supporting finance (including corporate development, capital structures and fundraising) and investor relations at a high-growth and innovative technology company and a track record of driving alignment and delivering results on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders
- Demonstrates excellent time management skills to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk tolerance and balancing to drive the business forward
- Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing
- Holds a JD and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
- Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust
What the job involves
- To achieve our ambitious and exciting goals, we’re looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel to join Grammarly’s Legal team to work on a wide variety of corporate transactional and governance matters
- Among other things, this role will oversee legal due diligence and support the structuring and negotiation of a variety of corporate transactions, oversee legal post-closing integration, and support general corporate governance and investor relations matters
- Reporting directly to Grammarly’s Head of Corporate and Compliance, Legal, this role will partner closely with our Executive, Corporate Development, Finance, and People teams to develop strong, extensible and repeatable practices to help move the business forward
- As a core member and contributor on the Grammarly Legal team, this person will also help develop and bolster the culture of the Legal team by exemplifying care for their craft, care for others, and a commitment to finding collaborative solutions to complex questions
- As Grammarly’s Senior Corporate Counsel, you will leverage your corporate and transactional experience and expertise to support and accelerate Grammarly's next era of growth
- You will take on critical, high-profile corporate projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership
- You will use your background, skill, and creativity to efficiently use outside counsel, build repeatable cross-functional processes, build trust across the legal team and the business all with an eye toward achieving our strategic corporate goals
- Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level on corporate transactional and investor-related matters
- Structure, conduct, and manage legal due diligence, engaging internal and external partners when necessary to ensure alignment
- Draft, negotiate, socialize, and review transaction documents
- Assisting in deal execution logistics, including supporting post-closing integration and compliance efforts
- Support corporate governance matters, including corporate entity management, new entity development and implementation, equity program strategic planning, and board-related matters
- Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk
- Advise internal stakeholders, providing clear, concise, and thorough guidance on legal risks, obligations, and mitigations
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 to include 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 positions 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
(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
(Head of Revenue & 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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