Director, Corporate Engineering

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 will collaborate in person 4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to different hubs. They are required to live within a commutable distance of their home hub of either New York City or 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 looking for a Director to join our Corporate Engineering team. This person will be responsible for leading and managing the Corporate Engineering function across Grammarly's global locations. They will strategize to empower key organizational objectives and create execution plans while collaborating with multiple stakeholders. They will create lasting systems to ensure operational excellence within the organization, including leading multiple workstreams for V0 and steady-state projects. Additionally, they will identify and drive company-wide initiatives to improve employee productivity (remote and in-hub technology experience), autonomy, and speed of execution. They will have a chance to support function-specific technology, such as Finance, Sales, Legal, and Productivity, minimizing duplication and maintenance while ensuring the best possible integrations.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As Director of Corporate Engineering, you will:

• Partner with multiple stakeholders (engineering, finance, marketing, workplace experience, etc.) to build cohesion and empower collaboration at Grammarly through exceptional customer support and enterprise technologies. 
• Foster a metrics-driven engineering and service culture focused on impact and the fastest path to value. 
• Navigate the high-ambiguity fast-paced organizational environment – evolve services, tools, and processes iteratively. Reassess the existing foundation and make informed decisions on whether keep it or rebuild it. 
• Own and direct a long-term technical roadmap that aligns with organizational business objectives, including a special focus on enabling remote and in-person productivity of every Grammarlian and our partners.
• Hire and mentor your team members, helping them advance in their careers. 
• Further grow your organization – splitting into teams, establishing the separation of concerns, and building robust processes to achieve a high level of reliability, simplicity, and productivity. 

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkab