Head of Learning & Development

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Grammarly offers a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely. Starting in 2022, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter in one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Kyiv. To ensure that teams are able to overlap in their working hours and to meet face-to-face when needed, all team members need to live within three time zones of a hub. Read more about our remote-first hybrid model.

Grammarly team members who will be collaborating at our San Francisco hub must be based in the United States.

The opportunity 

Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment. 

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Head of Learning & Development to join our People team. This role will have global responsibility for building Grammarly’s L&D team, programs, and experiences. Grammarly is growing quickly, and with that growth, we need to up-level our team to meet the challenges of Grammarly today and in the years to come. This role will enable that growth for all Grammarly team members—individual contributors, managers, and leaders—with hands-on program development and delivery and by building a team of L&D professionals. 

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 ones’ career and capabilities with a high degree of autonomy and having an outsize impact. We’re looking for a learning professional who is passionate about impactful, motivating, and interactive experiences that deliver learning and build engagement. 

Your impact

As the Head of Learning & Development, you will own creating the knowledge sharing and skill development to support our team to enable Grammarly’s growth and strategy. This includes but is not limited to management and leadership development, onboarding, scaling our EAGER values and culture, communications training, English language programs to support our global team, 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 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 be more effective in their roles. 
  • Manage to deliver high-quality and comprehensive onboarding programs that support new team members in ramping up to their roles, their teams, and the company, as well as equip them to excel with our EAGER values and in our culture.
  • Craft a learning strategy that supports Grammarly team members in ownership of their development, growth, and impact, empowering them to identify priorities, create action plans in partnership with their manager, and grow their capabilities. 
  • Manage, coach, and build a team of learning professionals, scaling the team with Grammarly’s growth with excellence and top talent. 
  • Ensure effective planning, execution, branding, and communication of Grammarly’s learning programs by monitoring, reporting, and ensuring a high return on investment.
  • Determine and implement key metrics and rigorous evaluation of Grammarly’s learning programs. 
  • Be a dynamic facilitator of learning programs as well as large group discussions (experience with multicultural, ESL learners, and global locations strongly encouraged).
  • Direct strategy and manage the implementation of global communications programs for our team members aligned with our mission to “improve lives by improving communication,” e.g., English language learning and skill development, active listening, cooperative communication, nonviolent communication practices, feedback skills, difficult conversations with candor and empathy, presentation skills, etc.

We’re looking for someone who

  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable. 
  • Has a proven track record of conceptualizing, initiating, evaluating, and growing learning programs to meet business needs.
  • Drives vision and purpose in our learning programs, painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy, motivating others to join.
  • Balances the needs of stakeholders, including global location and functional needs and variances. 
  • Has experience designing core metrics to assess L&D impact, evaluate programs, and measure return on investment.
  • Actively learns through experimentation when tackling new programs or challenges, and is humble, adaptive, resilient, self-aware, and courageous. 
  • Supports others with coaching, mentoring, asking questions, pushing back, and providing frameworks, resources, and feedback.
  • Has a strong technical skillset and knowledge of Learning Management Systems, virtual learning environments, learning platforms and tools, digital learning, just-in-time, micro, self-guided learning, and blended learning strategies. 
  • Has extensive knowledge of frameworks and experience in applying them to management and leadership development programs, succession planning, assessments, and coaching. 
  • Has a deep understanding of learning methodologies, adult learning preferences and creating interactive experiences, and industry best practices.  
  • Is adept at creating learning experiences and scaling programs in global, cross-cultural, and distributed environments. 

Support for you, professionally and personally

  • Professional growth: We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development 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. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
  • Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package that includes superior health care. We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program.


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Location

Grammarly’s San Francisco headquarters is located downtown, just a 5-minute walk from the Embarcadero BART station.

An Insider's view of Grammarly

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

We resolve our problems with constructive discussions that are only made possible by the level of empathy and listening skills that team members have here. It makes me happy to know I work with such exceptional people.

Maryna

Engineering Manager

How does the company support your career growth?

I was initially attracted to (and surprised by) the growth and scale of the business, and the feeling only grows as we expand into B2B. With its adaptable, positive, and passionate team, Grammarly is a unique place to be."

Nicole

Product Marketing

What is your vision for the company?

Writing helps us all achieve personal, professional, and academic success, but effective communication requires talent and time. It can be very challenging, and we may not always be able to effectively express our meaning, convey our intent, and be fully understood—creating a gap with our audience. We’re building Grammarly to close this gap.

Brad

CEO

What projects are you most excited about?

I always feel pumped when I see the positive feedback we get from our users. To know that your work is helping people discover a product that meaningfully improves their lives—it never gets old.

Shanik

Head of Growth

What are Grammarly Perks + Benefits

Grammarly Benefits Overview

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes superior health care. We also offer ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts to events and cultural institutions, and more. We frequently take time to acknowledge and celebrate our colleagues’ accomplishments.

On top of our programs and policies, Grammarly also believes strongly in making sure that a major benefit is the company’s focus on a culture of collaboration and cooperation. We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Remote work program
Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Learn more here: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/remote-first-hybrid-work-model/
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Grammarly-paid insurance programs include life, AD&D, and short-term and long-term disability.
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Fitness initiatives at Grammarly include In-office yoga and sponsored race teams.
Mental health benefits
Grammarly provides employee assistance programs and counseling services (including virtual care).
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for the birthing person and 8 weeks of leave for the birthing partner.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Grammarly offers employees professional development opportunities like an annual individual budget for training along with the ability to attend job-related conferences and seminars.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within

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