Director, Finance

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, or Portugal. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków.This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

Grammarly team members in this role are required to live within a daily commutable distance to San Francisco. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to help them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, Grammarly for Education, and Grammarly for Developers. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re hiring a Director of Finance to help build and lead our Finance organization. We are looking for ambitious builders who are excited to help us continue to grow and scale. Areas of focus include business partnering across a multifaceted revenue model that includes a scaled freemium business and fast-growing enterprise sales model, corporate FP&A, corporate development, transaction execution, and investor/board support. This role will report to the CFO and partner with other executives to scale Grammarly’s business operations.

Your impact

In this role, you will:

• Lead business partnering, forecasting, and performance optimization for our major lines of business.
• For our individuals line of business, collaborate with various leadership teams to optimize user acquisition, active user retention, premium upgrades, and paid user retention.
• For our organizations line of business, support the scaling of an enterprise sales organization and its performance optimization.
• Help design, build, and tune the performance of a team that meets Grammarly’s rapidly growing needs in these areas.
• Provide senior guidance around related business intelligence efforts, including refining the metrics used to explain and tune our business.

You will be successful if you build strong cross-functional partnerships to drive better, faster decision-making while earning a reputation for a nuanced understanding of our business and the ability to help our company consistently deliver peak performance.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 4 weeks per quarter.
• Has a deep fluency in the acquisition and retention dynamics of an optimization-focused subscription business with millions of paid users.
• Both thinks strategically and drives nuanced, detailed analyses.
• Has a collaboration mentality and can partner with and be an informed counterweight to deeply analytical and thoughtful leaders.
• Has experience with and passion for hyper-growth, dynamic, driven organizations.
• Has successfully built high-impact teams in strategic business partnering, forecasting/FP&A, retention analytics, marketing analysis, or product support, ideally in a hyper-growth, resource-constrained environment.
• Can effectively represent and explain Grammarly’s business both internally and externally.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to emp