Head of Learning & Development
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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