Head of Grammarly for Education

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to help them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. 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 for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, Grammarly for Education, and Grammarly for Developers. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Head of Grammarly for Education to join our Sales team. In this role, you will be responsible for building a global EDU organization, including Sales and Customer Success with a dotted line over the EDU BDR and EDU Marketing teams. There will be an additional focus on partnering closely with enablement teams to build out onboarding, training and development, career mapping, and sales retention/upsell processes. This is a highly cross-functional position reporting directly to our Chief Revenue Officer. 

As Head of Grammarly for Education, you will have the opportunity to build an amazing organization and drive the vision and strategy for a growing EDU vertical, ensuring Grammarly has the team and processes in place to reach our long-term growth goals.

In this role you will:

• Create a long-term growth strategy for the global EDU organization.
• Build out the operating motion, metrics, processes, and results for the growing EDU function.
• Establish strong cross-functional partnerships across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, etc.
• Develop a go-to-market strategy with an understanding of buyer personas and segmentation.
• Build an open, collaborative, high-listening organization.

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has a strong understanding of the education industry and buying motion.
• Has deep experience working in high-growth start-up environments.
• Has a track record of building high-performing teams, supported by best-in-class processes, and bringing analytics and best practices to the management of the practice to unlock scale.
• Has a passion for coaching and mentorship with experience in performance management.
• Has experience selling into complex markets and building out go-to-market strategies.

• 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: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing excellent health care (including mental health and fertility benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, caregiver and pet care stipends, wellness stipends, 401(k) matching (US only), admission discounts, learning and development opportunities, and more.
• For North America–based employment: Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, meaning 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. Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Our compensation packages include equity; a wide range of medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance options; retirement benefits; and parental leave. We offer twenty days of paid time off per year (global), eleven days of paid holidays per year (US and Canada), and unlimited sick days (global). 

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in California, Colorado, Texas, Atlanta, GA, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, or Toronto.

The expected “On Target Earnings” (OTE) for this role 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, a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program (US), and abides by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Kennett Township, New London Township, Pittsburgh City, Shaler Township), South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia 

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario 

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

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