Strategic Finance Manager, Growth

Grammarly team members in this role will collaborate in person 3 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. 

The opportunity 

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results. Grammarly has been profitable for over a decade because we’ve stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that’s secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work—without selling their data. We’re proud to be one of Inc.’s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Strategic Finance Manager, Growth to join our Strategic Finance team. The person in this role will help us measure and forecast our professional services and enterprise business accounts. The ​​Strategic Finance Manager, Growth will identify, measure, and assess the key drivers that power Grammarly’s business and work with senior stakeholders to synthesize performance narratives and dictate expectations on future business performance. This role will report to the Head of Strategic Finance. 

We are seeking candidates who are both excellent communicators and analytically strong, with the ability to identify business opportunities and lead appropriate analyses and diligence to inform a course of action. Candidates must be able to apply critical judgment to drive decisions that will be impactful to the business. 

Your impact

In this role, you will:

• Lead all analyses to synthesize the performance of Grammarly’s subscription business model. 
• Identify and design critical value-creating KPIs, build complex driver-based models, and monitor key signals dictating real-time decision-making.
• Own all SaaS-based forecast models for consumer and enterprise accounts, including new bookings and renewal models. 
• Run various complex scenario analyses to inform future business investment decisions. 
• Draft critical narratives for both internal and external stakeholders around business performance drivers. 
• Present performance trends weekly to members of our executive team. 
• Partner with senior leaders to support strategic initiatives and high-impact decisions, including investment trade-offs, goal setting, and more. 
• Work with key partners on our Data Science, Business Intelligence, Growth, Marketing and Finance teams to design critical metrics to measure business performance and incorporate them into our operational decision-making process.
• Program and project manage OKRs to deliver near and long-term success for the business.
• Support board presentations, materials, investor reporting and communications.
• Partner with our Corporate Finance team on financing, corporate development, and strategic partnership activities, including financial assessments and analysis, due diligence, and integration.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco and potentially other hubs 3 weeks per quarter.
• Has a deep fluency in the acquisition and retention dynamics of an optimization-focused subscription business with millions of paid users.
• Thinks strategically and drives nuanced, detailed analyses.
• Has a collaboration mentality and can partner with and be an informed counterweight to deeply analytical and thoughtful leaders.
• Has experience with and passion for hyper-growth, dynamic, driven organizations.
• Has been a part of high-impact teams in strategic business partnering, forecasting/FP&A, retention analytics, marketing analysis, or product support, ideally in a hyper-growth, resource-constrained environment.
• Can effectively represent and explain Grammarly’s business both internally and externally.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• 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 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, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 

Compensation and benefits

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 options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• 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. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

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

San Francisco: 

Zone 1: $152,000- $185,000/year (USD)

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, 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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