Director, Learning & Development

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. 

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. 

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, and impact. The strategy should enable them to identify priorities, partner with their managers to create action plans, and enhance their capabilities.
• Lead, mentor, and build a team of learning professionals, scaling it alongside 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.
• Identify key metrics and establish a robust evaluation process for Grammarly’s learning programs. 
• Display expertise in leading learning programs and facilitating group discussions for multicultural ESL learners and global locations with flexibility and adaptability.
• Direct strategy and manage the implementation of global communications programs for our team members aligned with our mission to “improve lives by improving communication,” These programs may include English language learning, active listening, cooperative communication, nonviolent communication practices, feedback skills, difficult conversations with sincerity and empathy, presentation skills, and other relevant skill development programs.

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco and potentially other hubs 4 weeks per quarter. 
• 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, paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy and motivates 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 applying them to management and leadership development programs, succession planning, assessments, and coaching. 
• Has a deep understanding of learning methodologies, adult learning preferences creating interactive experiences, and industry best practices.  
• Is adept at creating learning experiences and scaling programs in global, cross-cultural, and distributed environments. 

• 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 ample and defined time off, catered lunches, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options401(k) matching (US only)
• Paid parental leave
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days 
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this San Francisco-based position are outlined below and may be modified in the future. 

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, 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).

Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates.

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