Senior Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering, Grammarly
$264-385k
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AI-powered writing assistant
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AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$264-385k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 10+ years of experience contributing to engineering teams including 5+ years as a hands-on contributor, and 3+ years of leading teams
- Technical Skills: You’re proficient in backend technologies such as Go, Java/Scala, Ruby, Python, etc
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team
- Leadership: You have a track record of leading and developing high-performing, inclusive, and mission-driven teams
- Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art
- Excellent Communicator: You're able to distill complexity into clear and concise messaging. You’re effective across various mediums and are excellent at working in a remote-first environment
- Start-to-Finish Ownership: You take 100% responsibility for your own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company
- Cares Deeply, Communicates Directly: You discuss and debate ideas openly. You focus on the customer and business ‘so what' and encourage stakeholders to take impactful action
- Bias to Action: You value speed. You take thoughtful and prompt steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth
- Structured Project Manager: You have honed a systematic way of running your projects. You bring structure to your to-do list and know how to break down large tasks into smaller pieces to get things done
- Inclusive Facilitator: You build a culture of inclusion as your first priority. You advocate for this as a project facilitator, people manager, and teammate, and are comfortable guiding through an inclusive lens
- Location: We're considering candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. We operate in a remote-hybrid model
What the job involves
- Oversee and contribute to a multidisciplinary team of software engineers developing amazing user experiences
- Serve as an engineering leader and technical expert
- Create plans and processes, and drive execution for the engineering team
- Hire and mentor a world-class team, including providing coaching and career guidance
- Advocate for code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
- Follow projects from inception through implementation to help ensure they are on time and of remarkable quality
- Support initiatives to improve engineering efficiency, quality, and happiness
- Collaborate with product and delight teams to ship incredible features and products
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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