Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.
About Grammarly
Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of theFortune 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. 14 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 seeking an Engineering Manager, MarTech to join our Growth Engineering organization. This role will lead the engineering team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the company's marketing technology stack. The candidate will enable data-driven marketing strategies, enhance customer experiences, and optimize marketing operations through robust, scalable, and innovative technical solutions. The ideal candidate is a technical leader with a strong background in software development and marketing tools and a deep understanding of marketing operations.
Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.
As a MarTech engineering manager, you will be responsible for the following:
- Leadership and strategy in defining and executing the technical strategy for MarTech, collaborating with relevant stakeholders, leading and mentoring a team of software engineers, and staying informed on emerging technologies related to marketing, data, and machine learning.
- Technical development and execution of the marketing technology stack, including the notification platform, content management, data layer, affiliates, and ad targeting, ensure seamless integration between the MarTech and other systems involving data platforms and infrastructure.
- Data and Analytics Enablement by collaborating with Data teams, support the implementation of analytics engineering and tools to enable Marketers to create high ROI activity.
- Stakeholder management, by partnering with marketing leaders and team members, acts as a bridge between engineering and marketing teams and, at times, manages vendor relationships.
- Governance and compliance by ensuring the martech stack complies with data privacy and security standards and establishing best practices for tracking, reporting, and data management overall.
- During the first 30 days, you are expected to build relationships, assess the current state, and identify immediate priorities.
- During the first 60 days, you are expected to establish a roadmap, optimize processes, and deliver incremental improvements.
- During the first 90 days, you are expected to achieve measurable results, empower the team, and set the foundation for long-term success.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role focused on MarTech or a similar domain.
- Strong experience in software development and system architecture, focusing on MarTech or related technologies.
- Proficiency in integrating and managing marketing tools such as Iterable, SendGrid, Pardot, Google Analytics, etc
- Familiarity with APIs, ETL processes, and data pipelines.
- Knowledge of data warehousing, customer segmentation, and analytics tools like Netspring, Databricks, Tableau, etc.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- 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.
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
- 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
- Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
- Annual professional development budget and 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.
Zone 1: $220,000 - $363,000/year (USD)
We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. 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).
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