Design Technologist, Design Systems (Senior level)

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model . Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow.
Grammarly team members in this role are required to live within a daily commutable distance to San Francisco. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams 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 Design Technologist to join Grammarly's Design team and focus on our design system. This role will report to the Product Design Manager of the Client Applications domain. Teams within the Client Applications domain develop our design system and core user experiences for Grammarly across all mobile and desktop applications, including browser extensions, Windows and Mac applications, and iPhone, iPad, and Android keyboards and applications.
Your impact
As a Design Technologist focused on Grammarly's design system, you will be part of the core team that establishes principles, evolves scalable practices, and inspires craft excellence. This role is ideal for someone who thrives when working in the intersection of design and engineering, with a collaborative approach, and enjoys brainstorming widely and writing code that helps validate ideas. Your work will enable teams to rapidly prototype new ideas and create thoughtful applications with cohesion, consistency, and quality-and thereby further Grammarly's vision of ubiquity and trustworthiness.
In this role, you will:

• Shape the holistic vision for Grammarly's design system, designing and integrating new interaction patterns, behaviors, and frameworks into the design system that others can use.
• Inform decisions with user research, and internal team needs, balancing a variety of use cases, challenges, and opportunities across applications.
• Approach opportunities and challenges with an analytical mindset, knowing when to create exploratory lightweight prototypes versus refined solutions that can scale.
• Refine work to reach a high bar for quality-balancing design fidelity, technical feasibility, and accessibility.
• Collaborate with a wide range of cross-functional teammates to learn about how the design system can best serve them and contribute to creating solutions that help teams build applications for Grammarly users with various abilities, contexts, and needs.

We're looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values-is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 3 weeks per quarter.
• Has a minimum of 8 years of experience and a relevant work history that shows evidence of a principled approach to creating user-centric, intuitive front-end interfaces and achieving business impact.
• Has strong foundational knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc), fluency with modern front-end frameworks and tools (React, NodeJS, etc), and curiosity to learn new technologies and methods.
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively share ideas and solicits feedback to improve our collective work.
• Has a mindset for seeking root causes, approaching problems, evaluating trade-offs, and designing solutions systematically across applications to develop best-in-class user experiences.
• Works proactively to set goals, can manage multiple priorities, and is accountable for driving projects from beginning to end.
• Is excited about contributing to creating an inclusive environment and inspiring teammates to explore and go beyond the status quo.

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 encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, 401(k) matching, 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 US Federal E-Verify program.
Please note that Grammarly's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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