Engineering Manager, Product Security

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. 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 must be based on the East Coast of the United States, and they must be able to collaborate in person 4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results. Grammarly has been profitable for over a decade because we’ve stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that’s secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work—without selling their data. We’re proud to be one of Inc.’s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Security Engineering team at Grammarly. This role will lead a growing team of security engineers while helping manage a wide variety of projects and initiatives to secure our product offerings and growing organization. This role is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in delivering products that make an impact, building connections, and advancing as a security professional. 

Grammarly’s security engineers have the freedom to develop practical solutions that, in turn, influence our security culture. The engineering landscape at Grammarly is complex, as we create innovative product offerings, expand to new platforms, and scale underlying cloud systems—all while strengthening and expanding our global team. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As Engineering Manager, Security, you will:

• Grow and lead security team(s) in a fast-paced SaaS company.
• Empower the team and mentor its engineers, helping them advance in their careers.
• Partner with the existing security engineers on ongoing red team and blue team initiatives.
• Work with the product development teams, raising security awareness and offering expertise to keep our product protected through all stages of software development.
• Represent Grammarly’s security engineering within and outside of the company.
• Validate our defense, detection, and response capabilities by engaging an internal offensive team as well as external engagements.
• Suggest security tools and practices with an outsize impact and drive their adoption in the organization.
• Oversee the development of in-house security tools and solutions.

We’re looking for someone who

• 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 collaborate in person 4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Is a security practitioner with a proven record of security-focused contributions in one or more security domains (application security, incident response, security operations, threat hunting, offensive security).
• Builds strong relationships with their direct reports and peers across the company. 
• Nurtures the talent in the team and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team.
• Identifies impactful and practical solutions for security, from low-hanging fruit to long-term investments.
• Effectively sets and communicates priorities for themselves and their team while driving exec