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 theFortune 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. 7 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
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team, someone whose work will directly impact millions of users through the growth and scaling of our business. This role will work with the team responsible for building several tracks of innovative user-facing product features that further empower our customers. Modern AI enables nearly magical capabilities for communication assistance. Our goal is to bring all that magic into the real-life situations our users' real-life situations every day. Our code works right where our users write in every instance of text editing powered by Grammarly..
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. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.
As a Staff Technical Program Manager for Clients, you will have the opportunity to drive meaningful change at a growing company. Grammarly is uniquely positioned to continue defining the digital-writing-assistant category, but this comes with significant challenges. In this role, you will look to drive programs oriented around the developer experience and accelerating velocity through effective tooling and reusable and scalable infrastructure. We invite you to help us build these smart capabilities in our flagship client app: Grammarly’s Windows desktop client.
In this role, you will:
- Work through ambiguity, leading Client programs across multiple teams and departments at Grammarly, focused on creating a delightful user experience that scales to the entire web and meets Grammarly’s users anywhere they write.
- Identify the opportunities, requirements, and risks; define milestones and success criteria; and manage schedules.
- Exercise technical judgment in evaluating projects and their potential solutions.
- Communicate and lead effectively, both with the team and with leadership.
- Develop and maintain scalable processes and assist with resource allocation.
- Ensure priorities are aligned across all relevant teams and take steps to remove roadblocks to this alignment.
- Take a holistic view across the greater organization, identifying points to improve collaboration and reduce redundancy.
Qualifications
- Has at least 8 years of professional experience as a TPM, ideally with client experience (web programming) or a passion for learning new technologies.
- Has successfully managed growth programs, driving meaningful user adoption and engagement outcomes.
- Applies their technical expertise to define and deliver technical solutions.
- Is a strategic thinker and can work across teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
- Is driven to proactively identify issues, risks, and opportunities.
- 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.
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 also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
- A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.
- Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.
We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).
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