Content Designer

Grammarly team members in this role are required to live within a daily commutable distance to San Francisco. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance.

The opportunity 

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 Content Designer to serve a central role in the design, research, development, and continued improvement of Grammarly’s core product experiences. In partnership with product designers, brand experience designers, product managers, researchers, engineers, linguists, and other stakeholders across the company, the Content Designer will be central to crafting the writing and communication assistance features that serve people all over the world. This role sits on Grammarly’s dedicated Writing and Content Design team, which is embedded within the cross-disciplinary Design team in the Product organization.

Your impact

As a Content Designer at Grammarly, you’ll build on an existing body of work and help our team evolve the content design discipline and practice.

• Within your first 30 days, you’ll become immersed in Grammarly’s product strategy, design philosophy, and existing user experiences. You’ll begin to build relationships with your cross-functional teammates.
• By month three, you’ll be working confidently within the product design process and synthesizing research data, competitive research, and your subject matter expertise to develop experiences for Grammarly customers. You’ll have created and released content for one or more product offerings and be developing a vision for how content design should approach the product experience within your area of responsibility.
• By month six, you’ll have influenced design processes at Grammarly alongside your many collaborators on the Design, Human Insights, Writing, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering teams. You’ll be conceiving, testing, and designing solutions to communication challenges at scale. You’ll have established a consistent content strategy for your areas of responsibility across interfaces and user touchpoints. 
• By year one, you will have been a crucial part of shipping at least one impactful feature set and well on your way to scaling your influence across Grammarly’s product experience.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 3 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has significant experience in UX writing, product content strategy, and/or content design.
• Has a portfolio of UX-focused content work that demonstrates a principled approach to design, user advocacy, achieving business impact, and excellent writing and editing skills.
• Has facility with complex information architecture and can develop clear solutions when faced with ambiguous or incomplete information.
• Can articulate the reasoning behind their content design choices and influence within a product design team.
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to share their ideas effectively, and the conviction to advocate for their disciplinary expertise.
• Gives and receives feedback generously and productively to improve our collective work.
• Leans into a big-picture mindset that considers the entire user experience.
• Can manage multiple projects with variable scopes and deadlines, from needs assessment to delivery.
• Is excited about creating helpful and human experiences built on AI technology.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• 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 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 encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, 401(k) matching, and more.
• For San Francisco–based employment: Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, meaning pay may vary depending on your location. 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).

The expected salary range for this position is outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

San Francisco:

Zone 1: $136,000 - 176,000/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, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Grammarly is an equal-opportunity employer and participant in the US Federal E-Verify program.

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.

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