Senior Director, Finance

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 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 San Francisco. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance. 

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 hiring a senior leader to drive strategic business partnerships for one of our most significant lines of business and to join the senior leadership of our Finance team. This role will report directly to the CFO, join the Grammarly Finance senior leadership team, and partner closely with Grammarly executives.

Your impact

As a Senior Finance Director, you’ll excel by building strong cross-functional partnerships to drive better, faster decision-making while earning a reputation for a nuanced understanding of our business and ensuring peak performance consistently. 

In this role you will:

• Develop business partnerships, forecasting, and optimizing performance for a critical and strategic business line. Your role will involve working closely with the leadership team to enhance user acquisition ROI, active user retention, upgrades, and paid user retention.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to drive user and revenue growth.
• Establish strong strategic business partnerships by recruiting, training, and mentoring a high-performing team and continuously identifying ways to increase its impact.
• Work in a dynamic, high-growth environment, driving rigorous, fact-based recommendations that drive better and faster decisions.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance team to enhance overall performance by optimizing financial forecasting and reporting.
• Provide expert guidance around related data, metrics, and business intelligence efforts.
• Join the Grammarly Finance senior leadership team, helping design, build, and tune a Finance organization that drives peak performance while meeting Grammarly’s rapidly growing needs.

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 in San Francisco 4 weeks per quarter.
• Has a deep fluency in the acquisition and retention dynamics of scaled subscription/SaaS businesses.
• Thinks strategically and drives nuanced, detailed analyses.
• Has a collaboration mentality and can partner with and be an informed counterweight to deeply analytical and thoughtful leaders.
• Has experience with and passion for hyper-growth, dynamic, driven organizations.
• Successfully built high-impact teams in strategic business partnering, forecasting/FP&A, retention analytics, marketing analysis, or product support, ideally in a hyper-growth, resource-constrained environment.
• Effectively represens and explains Grammarly’s business both internally and externally.
• Has 15+ years of experience in strategic roles focused on building high-performing businesses. This is a senior role that reports directly to the CFO and i