Manager, Commercial Sales

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 in 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 a Manager, Commercial Sales to join our Grammarly Business Sales team. The person in this role will continue to streamline processes and build our team to achieve our growth goals for 2024 and beyond. Reporting directly to the GM of Grammarly Business, the Manager, Commercial Sales, will play a pivotal role in leading a team to establish customers within our largest segment. 

Your impact

Grammarly aims to continue accelerating and refining our commercial sales motion. In this role, you will coach and lead your team to sell into multiple levels within an organization. You will have a unique opportunity to build a distinctive sales team based on your vision and passion for excellence.

In the first few quarters, you will grow and manage a sales team.  By the end of the first year, you will have established repeatable processes and best practices for your team to find success.

In this role, you will:

• Demonstrate sales excellence through rigorous forecasting and hitting quarterly targets.
• Establish a high-performance team through continual coaching and performance management.
• Help refine messaging and positioning of Grammarly Business to best support sales.
• Inform the product roadmap for Grammarly Business to unlock faster growth.
• Help to refine a successful end-to-end revenue machine, including marketing, product, sales build-out, and underlying ops and pipeline management.

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.
• Minimum 3 years of sales management experience.
• Has experience with multi-layered deals and selling at a C-suite level.
• Knows how to sell on business value and can communicate the benefits beyond a list of features.
• Manages deal cycles proactively to set up each stage for success, creating an operational model for our upmarket segment.
• Identifies opportunities for success and creatively works through challenges.
• Attracts, manages, and develops talent.
• Leverages data to make decisions.
• Has a solid understanding of SaaS and subscription business models.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
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