Director, Learning & Development

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 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. 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 with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all 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 of Learning and Development to join our People team. As the Director of Learning and development, you will be globally responsible for building Grammarly's L&D team, programs, and experiences. Given Grammarly's rapid growth, it is crucial to elevate our team to meet the current and future challenges of the company. This role will enable growth for all team members- individual contributors, managers, and leaders by developing and delivering hands-on programs and building an L&D team of professionals. You will be responsible for creating impactful, motivating, and interactive learning experiences that build engagement and improve communication for Grammarly team members.

We envision the L&D team as a cornerstone of team members’ experience at Grammarly, delivering proof points of Grammarly as an outstanding organization in which to grow one’s career and capabilities with a high degree of autonomy and having an outsize impact. We seek a learning professional passionate about impactful, motivating, and interactive experiences that deliver learning and build engagement. 

Your impact

As the Director of Learning and Development, you will be responsible for creating and promoting knowledge-sharing and skill-development initiatives to support Grammarly's growth and strategy. These initiatives will include management and leadership development programs, onboarding processes, scaling the company's EAGER values and culture, communication training, English language programs, and more. 

In this role, you will: 

• Establish short and long-term plans for comprehensive leadership development strategies and programs to support Grammarly’s growth, focusing on supporting leaders at the Director level and above and preparing high-growth managers for leadership positions.
• Develop a leadership philosophy for Grammarly in collaboration with organization leaders using concepts such as servant leadership, conscious leadership, and situational leadership.
• Coach managers and leaders to enhance their effectiveness in their roles. 
• Redesign the performance management system and ways of measuring impact.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive onboarding program that assists new team members in adjusting to their roles, teams, and the company culture. The program should also help them excel in their roles by instilling our EAGER values.
• Craft a learning strategy that empowers Grammarly team members to take ownership of their development, growth