Principal Product Designer, User Trust & Enterprise

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and, depending on business needs, they must meet in person for collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where their team is based.This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The opportunity 

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Principal Product Designer to join our User Trust & Enterprise Design team. This role will involve collaborating with cross-functional partners across EPD to shape the product and design experiences for a key area of our product. The ideal candidate will possess expertise as a design lead, gain insight into our customers' needs, and craft intuitive flows that empower them to navigate our products with ease and confidence. To excel in this role, the candidate should work across the entire product development lifecycle, consider user empathy a critical part of the process, and have a growth mindset. 

As a Principal Product Designer, you will significantly contribute to the company's design culture, innovation, and long-term business success. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, design expertise, leadership skills, and a commitment to fostering a positive and inclusive design environment.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute strategically to long-term planning and quarterly roadmaps, aligning design initiatives with business objectives.
• Define the strategic design direction and product vision for our most challenging problems.
• Collaborate with the VP of Design and senior leaders to evolve company-wide design strategies.
• Maintain and elevate design standards in partnership with design leadership, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution. 
• Mentor team members, helping them develop and grow in their craft.
• Cultivate a collaborative and innovative design culture through feedback and process iteration.

Qualifications

• Has a strong portfolio showcasing strategic thinking and a systematic approach to designing end-to-end experiences that serve user needs and business goals.
• Proactively sets and achieves goals, driving projects forward with initiative and accountability.
• Demonstrates confidence and enthusiasm while serving as a knowledgeable representative of the design team and users when engaging with stakeholders from other functional areas.
• Facilitates consensus-building and drives projects to successful completion.
• Enjoys the process of brainstorming solutions as much as the solutions themselves.
• Thrives on solving user problems that significantly impact key metrics, leading discussions to achieve strategic goals with a holistic mindset.
• Experience mentoring and fostering a culture of growth and development within the design team.
• Has excellent communication skills, effectively articulating the rationale behind design decisions and confidently presenting to diverse groups of stakeholders.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based. 

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 locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. 

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. 

United States: 

Zone 1: $305,000 – $372,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $275,000 – $334,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Grammarly is an equal-opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.

For more details about the personal data Grammarly collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Grammarly Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here. 

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