Staff Technical Program Manager, Grammarly
Desktop Clients, Eastern Timezones
$250-300k
AI-powered writing assistant
Job no longer available
AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$250-300k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Has at least 5 years of professional experience as a TPM, ideally with client experience or a passion for learning new technologies
- Has successfully managed growth programs, driving meaningful user adoption and engagement outcomes
- Applies their technical expertise to define and deliver technical solutions
- Is a strategic thinker and can work across teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions
- Is driven to proactively identify issues, risks, and opportunities
- 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
- Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based
What the job involves
- To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team, someone whose work will directly impact millions of users through the growth and scaling of our business
- This role will work with the team responsible for building several tracks of innovative user-facing product features that further empower our customers. Modern AI enables nearly magical capabilities for communication assistance
- Our goal is to bring all that magic into the real-life situations our users' real-life situations every day
- Our code works right where our users write in every instance of text editing powered by Grammarly. We invite you to help us build these smart capabilities in our flagship client app: Grammarly’s Windows desktop client
- 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
- As a Staff Technical Program Manager for Clients, you will have the opportunity to drive meaningful change at a growing company
- Grammarly is uniquely positioned to continue defining the digital-writing-assistant category, but this comes with significant challenges
- In this role, you will look to drive programs oriented around the developer experience and accelerating velocity through effective tooling and reusable and scalable infrastructure
- Work through ambiguity, leading Client programs across multiple teams and departments at Grammarly, focused on service availability and quality
- Identify the opportunities, requirements, and risks; define milestones and success criteria; and manage schedules
- Exercise technical judgment in evaluating projects and their potential solutions
- Communicate and lead effectively, both with the team and with leadership
- Develop and maintain scalable processes and assist with resource allocation
- Ensure priorities are aligned across all relevant teams and take steps to remove roadblocks to this alignment
- Take a holistic view across the greater organization, identifying points to improve collaboration and reduce redundancy
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.
Steph
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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