Director, Finance

San Francisco, CA

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 hiring a Director of Finance to help build and lead our Finance organization. We are looking for ambitious builders who are excited to help us continue to grow and scale. Areas of focus include business partnering across a multifaceted revenue model that includes a scaled freemium business and fast-growing enterprise sales model, corporate FP&A, corporate development, transaction execution, and investor/board support. This role will report to the CFO and partner with other executives to scale Grammarly’s business operations.

Your impact

In this role, you will:

Lead business partnering, forecasting, and performance optimization for our major lines of business.
For our individuals line of business, collaborate with various leadership teams to optimize user acquisition, active user retention, premium upgrades, and paid user retention.
For our organizations line of business, support the scaling of an enterprise sales organization and its performance optimization.
Help design, build, and tune the performance of a team that meets Grammarly’s rapidly growing needs in these areas.
Provide senior guidance around related business intelligence efforts, including refining the metrics used to explain and tune our business.

You will be successful if you build strong cross-functional partnerships to drive better, faster decision-making while earning a reputation for a nuanced understanding of our business and the ability to help our company consistently deliver peak performance.

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 and potentially other hubs 4 weeks per quarter.
Has a deep fluency in the acquisition and retention dynamics of an optimization-focused subscription business with millions of paid users.
Both 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 successfully built 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) 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, 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.

San Francisco:

Zone 1: $283,000-$364,000/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.

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.