Senior Product Design Manager, Grammarly
Growth
$236-325k
AI-powered writing assistant
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AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$236-325k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in a design role, with at least 5+ years in a leadership position. Experience with Saas, growth testing, and Acquisition/Activation strategies both in the product (ex., onboarding, new activated user experiences, feature discovery) and outside of the product (organic acquisition, SEO and homepage strategies, sign up/sign in)
- Has a strong design eye that connects brand/visual design to product design. This role spans organic and web-based customer acquisition to getting new users started in the product
- Proficient in design tools like Figma and Creative Suite
- Strong communication design skills; can write and relay context, concepts, and business cases with engaging storytelling and impact
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and rationale to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to learn and synthesize quickly—implementing feedback, giving constructive feedback, and positively contributing to a collaborative team environment
- Excited to foster team culture and collaboration, and develop individuals toward goals
- Knows and understands their leadership style, and is excited to build a team
- Can adapt between zero-to-one projects and iterative work
- Is highly curious about user needs, growth strategy, and business goals. Has a growth mindset and runs wholeheartedly toward a challenge
- Is passionate about the AI and productivity industry
- 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
What the job involves
- To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a data-driven, customer-obsessed, craft and people-caring Senior Product Design Manager to join our Self-Serve team within the Growth Area
- Your team will shape how Grammarly’s AI capabilities are showcased to professionals and students, demonstrating why Grammarly is their top AI writing partner
- You’ll drive the strategy and execution of our Acquisition and Activation experimentation and innovation - owning our first impression and engaging with millions of customers on effectively communicating our brand's story and value
- You’ll collaborate with a diverse, dynamic team of growth experts committed to innovation and experimentation, focused on users learning about Grammarly on organic acquisition surfaces like SEO pages to help them sign up and get started in the product
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate, identify, and prioritize opportunities by working with growth leaders in Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and Research. Strategically plan effective new Acquisition features and methods while ensuring alignment and clarity between design and partners
- Design Strategy: Own the Getting Started journey for our users and identify drop offs and opportunities for more seamless and delightful experiences. You’ll lead your team in designing rapid A/B testing and iterative improvements to showcase the right value to our users, driving impactful changes based on data-driven and research insights. You’ll advocate for design principles and best practices within the organization, and create frameworks, workshop sessions, and tools to ensure strong customer-led thinking
- Project Execution and Management: Oversee your designers’ process from concept to execution, ensuring timely delivery of projects while maintaining quality and craft standards. Clearly communicate design objectives and requirements to the team. Provide creative vision, user psychology insights, and direction to your team, thinking strategically and always considering the user's needs. Guide your team to integrate user research and insights into their process to ensure user experience enhancements resonate with our audiences
- Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of designers, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment. Attract and hire design talent to the team, offer guidance and support, help them overcome complex challenges, encourage learning and growth opportunities, and assist them in setting achievable career goals. Capture and reflect on their accomplishments with partners, leaders, and peers
- Advocacy: Represent your teams’ work and strategy to executives and leaders and advocate for how it impacts Grammarly’s strategic business objectives. Partner with other Growth leaders on how Growth shares its insights with partner teams to increase impact and integration into core product experiences
- Inspired Improvement: Explore, discover, and investigate design trends, tools, and technologies, and encourage the team to adopt new methods for improving workflow and output. Inspire the team and partners to push the boundaries and take bigger design leaps
- Partnerships: Build strong relationships with partners like Core Product, Marketing, and Coda, identifying opportunities for operating rhythms, incubating projects, connecting the right people to our initiatives, and exploring new approaches to growing the business
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.
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
(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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