Fast Facts

Grammarly is seeking a Privacy Counsel to join its Legal team, focusing on developing a world-class privacy program and ensuring data protection compliance. This role involves collaboration with various departments, offering significant opportunities to influence legal practices in the tech industry.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include advancing Grammarly's privacy program, integrating privacy requirements into business initiatives, guiding teams on privacy matters, and handling privacy incident escalations.

Skills: Applicants should have a deep understanding of privacy laws and regulations, experience with SaaS privacy programs, and strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications: A JD degree and 5-8 years of legal practice are required, along with a preference for experience with industry-specific privacy regulations and a passion for technology and law.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in New York City, allowing a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration.

Compensation: $225000 - $309000 / Annually

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 are seeking a Privacy Counsel to become a vital part of our Legal team, driving forward on our vision for a world-class privacy function. This role involves tackling novel legal and technical issues related to privacy and data protection and contributing to supporting a world-class Legal team. At the core of this position is a remarkable opportunity to make a significant impact by ensuring Grammarly maintains the trust of millions of daily users. This role will work cross-functionally across the company, including with our Trust, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Compliance, and Communications teams. 

As a Privacy Counsel, you’ll excel by supporting the evolution and maturation of our global privacy program - bringing a sense of mission and customer-first mindset to the intersection of law, business, and technology. As a member of the Grammarly Legal team, you will also help develop the team’s culture through exemplary care for others and a solid commitment to finding creative solutions to complex questions. This role reports to the Director of Privacy. 

In this role, you will:

• Support Grammarly’s ability to deliver on its company objectives through a best-in-class privacy program.
• Collaborate with leadership to integrate privacy by design and as a value-add in business roadmaps, systems, and initiatives.
• Communicate privacy requirements and offer guidance to other teams, including Engineering, Trust, Data, Communications, Product, and other teams within the Legal department. 
• Simplify and distill complex global privacy requirements into practical next steps.
• Serve as a key escalation point for Legal in response to privacy incidents. 
• Drive updates to Grammarly’s internal and external privacy documentation. 
• Assist with customer and vendor contract escalations, business partnerships, and corporate matters through a privacy lens.
• Support scaling of the function by supporting implementation of process improvement, automation, legal technology, and new working methods.
• Engage with regulatory, governmental, industry, and peer groups on privacy legal issues as needed.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of privacy laws, regulations, and frameworks (e.g. GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, ISO 27001) and insight into the generative AI industry, applicable laws, and emerging trends. 
• Experience with industry-specific privacy regulations is preferred (e.g., COPPA, FERPA, HIPAA).
• Passionate about Grammarly’s products and the intersection of technology, law, and business and leverages this curiosity to think tactically and strategically.
• Experience with both B2C and B2B SaaS privacy programs and the ability to think big.
• Strong interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex issues or problems into direct, actionable guidance.
• Demonstrated ability to support and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders. 
• A history of developing a culture of getting to “yes, if…”
• A team player who leads with humility and a healthy sense of humor. 
• JD degree from an accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) with membership in good standing in a US state bar.
• 5-8+ years practicing law.
• 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.

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. 

United States: Zone 1: $225,000 – $309,000/year 

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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