Manager, Global Travel & Meetings

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a strategic and detail-oriented Manager, Global Travel & Meetings to lead our company’s travel program—guiding policy, compliance, and vendor partnerships—while also playing a pivotal role in the planning and coordinating of internal meetings and events that require travel and accommodation. This role sits at the intersection of corporate travel and event logistics and is essential to enabling seamless employee experiences across our offices and offsites globally.

Beyond overseeing our global travel infrastructure, the right Travel Manager will thrive in the nuance of aligning travel planning with internal meetings, team summits, leadership gatherings, and company events. You’ll partner closely with our Internal Events & Connections team, workplace leads, executive assistants, and regional managers to orchestrate smooth, compliant, cost-effective travel while ensuring great on-the-ground experiences.

In this role, you will:

• Own and maintain the company’s global travel policy, ensuring it evolves alongside business needs, workforce behavior, and travel trends.
• Lead policy education, compliance tracking, and internal communication around travel protocols.
• Manage relationships with travel platforms (e.g., travel management companies, booking tools, airlines, hotels).
• Monitor travel trends and spending; optimize for cost-effectiveness and traveler satisfaction.
• Partner with the Physical Security team to evolve and maintain travel security standards and duty-of-care protocols, including risk mitigation strategies for high-risk regions or sensitive travel scenarios.
• Serve as a resource and escalation point for employees navigating travel logistics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support internal meeting and event needs—including team offsites, leadership meetings, and company events—where travel and hotel accommodations are required.
• Coordinate group travel and room blocks with event planning teams, ensuring alignment on timing, budget, and traveler experience.
• Partner with local office leads and executive assistants to manage space bookings, arrivals, and travel-related contingencies during key meetings.
• Analyze and report on travel spend, usage patterns, and vendor performance, delivering insights to help the business make data-driven decisions.
• Identify and implement continuous improvements to our travel processes, policies, and tools.
• Maintain travel documentation, training materials, and communications in partnership with the Workplace Experience team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in corporate travel management, including at least 3 years of experience supporting internal events, meetings, or similar cross-functional logistical efforts.
• Demonstrated experience owning and evolving a corporate travel policy.
• Comfortable navigating the intersection of travel logistics and event coordination.
• Skilled at balancing policy compliance with traveler experience.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and excellent at managing multiple priorities across time zones.
• Strong communicator with the ability to work across departments and stakeholder levels.
• Experience with global travel platforms (e.g., SAP Concur, Navan, Egencia, etc.) and corporate travel reporting.
• Familiarity with internal workplace tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Confluence, and Coda.
• Experience working at a scaling tech company or in a hybrid/global work environment.
• Background in hospitality, event logistics, or facilities/real estate teams.
• Understanding of duty-of-care best practices and global travel risk management.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MO