Design Program Manager, Grammarly
Product Design
$86-213k
More information about location
AI-powered writing assistant
Job no longer available
AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$86-213k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
- Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco and potentially other hubs 3 weeks per quarter
- Has at least 7 years of experience managing design operations at scale
- Values people and culture over processes and practices
- Can coach and facilitate—is an enabler, not a filter
- Can align individual contributors, managers, and executives around initiatives
- Consistently focus themselves and the team on the highest-impact activities
- Strives for alignment with cross-functional partners
- Can effectively distill key information from multiple ambiguous sources and strives to create clarity
- Has a wide toolkit to choose from, in terms of both digital tools and processes, and has a deep understanding of how and when to use each
- Can build an inclusive and diverse operations model for our product-design organization
What the job involves
- To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Design Operations Manager to join our Design Operations team
- As a Design Operations Manager, you will partner with our Head of Design to anticipate challenges and opportunities to mitigate risk.
- You'll leverage your leadership skills and experience to model, prototype, and iterate on ways to improve our team's processes
- Additionally, you'll build trust with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including Product Design, Brand and Marketing, and User Experience Research teams
- Collaborate with, support, and enable the Design team to deliver best-in-class designs
- Foster and develop the culture of our Product Design team
- Identify team needs concerning processes, tools, documentation, asset management, etc
- Provide stakeholders with visibility on current work and opportunities for cross-collaboration
- Implement or drive changes to ensure designers are working at a sustainable pace on high-priority and high-impact activities
- Facilitate the team in establishing project timelines and activities
- Constantly assess and evolve the team’s health and ways of working
- Evaluate and implement new tools with researchers, designers, and cross-functional partners to solve our growing need to collaborate globally
- Establish communication and knowledge-sharing channels internally and externally for the Design team
- Interface with our Legal, Security, and Procurement teams to onboard and pay vendors, including facilitating statements of work and supporting leadership in negotiating business terms and budgets
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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