Product and Privacy Counsel

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, or Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków.

We believe this balanced, flexible approach gives our team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust, unlocks creativity, and further fuels innovation.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

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 looking for a Product and Privacy counsel to join our Legal team to collaborate on exciting privacy and product projects. You’ll counsel novel privacy and consumer protection legal issues, help build a world-class legal infrastructure, and collaborate closely with our customers and partners. You’ll be a trusted advisor to our Engineering, Design, and Product teams to provide strategic and tactical advice regarding product and privacy laws.  You’ll also work on the cutting edge of NLP processing as well as user growth, monetization, privacy compliance, and international expansion. Core to this role is a fabulous opportunity to make a difference by ensuring Grammarly maintains the trust of our millions of daily users.

This role will work cross-functionally with our Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Compliance, and Communications teams. 

Your impact

As a Product and Privacy Counsel, you will take on critical product and privacy counseling projects with accuracy and ownership at the intersection of law, business, and technology. As a member of the Grammarly Legal team, you will also help develop the team’s culture through exemplary care for others and a strong commitment to finding creative solutions to complex questions.

• Within your first 30 days, you will participate in onboarding activities and focus on understanding our product offerings. You’ll also meet with key members of our Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Communications teams. You will be involved in at least one privacy review for our upcoming features and products.
• By month three, you will lead counseling for one Grammarly product, lead our vendor privacy diligence and data mapping process, and drive privacy infrastructure initiatives in conjunction with our engineering and security teams.
• By month six, you will be collaborating with our Product and Trust teams as a critical advisor, tracking high-impact laws, guiding our individuals and enterprise teams on critical questions, and creating scalable legal processes and playbooks for an internal team. 
• By year one, you will have developed training for the teams with which you interact and provide periodic updates to the leadership team about legal developments and what they mean for Grammarly’s product offerings.
• By year two, you will be a resident expert on global privacy and consumer protection issues.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has the ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, priorities, and deadlines.
• Can lead a deal, negotiate effectively, and has ideas about optimal negotiation.
• Is comfortable