Fast Facts

Grammarly is seeking a Partner Solutions Manager for Education to drive the market strategy and expand the company's presence in the education sector through partnerships and channel initiatives.

Responsibilities: This role will include orchestrating strategic initiatives, managing a portfolio of consulting services, and growing market share globally by developing partnerships within the education sector.

Skills: Candidates must have experience in channel partner management, business development, and excellent communication skills, with a focus on driving value through partnerships.

Qualifications: Preferred candidates will have over 10 years of experience in partner sales or business development in the enterprise software industry, particularly in the education market.

Location: This position is hybrid and can be done from the United States or Canada, with potential travel for team collaboration.

Compensation: $198000 - $275000 / Annually

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid model, and candidates in this role can be based remotely. You may be expected to travel to meet in person during your team’s scheduled collaboration weeks. Managers will determine in-person time according to business needs.

This hybrid approach helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture, with the flexibility of working from home, whenever you need focus time.

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 looking for a Partner Solutions Manager, Education to join our Global Channels and Alliances Organization. This role will orchestrate experienced key strategic initiatives to architect and build an ecosystem to help serve our education customers worldwide. The Partner Solutions organization manages the Channel strategy for extending Grammarly's business model by building and developing a portfolio of consulting, services, and selling partners. The business leader will be responsible for growing and shaping the market effort to build Grammarly's presence and market share globally for the years to come.

Grammarly’s go-to-market teams are shaping the future of workplace communication. As a member of our team, you will be crucial in expanding the use of our innovative, trustworthy AI writing tools. We strive to ensure that every organization can communicate effectively and efficiently. If you are passionate about transforming the way professionals connect and collaborate, we would love to hear from you.

As a Partner Solutions Manager for Education, you will be responsible for growing and shaping the market teams to build Grammarly's presence and market share globally in the upcoming year, taking a holistic view of the overall education business and ensuring that decisions are made with future growth in mind.

You possess a strong drive and analytical mindset, making you an ideal candidate for the business professional role. With experience managing and expanding indirect sales and delivery teams, you have a deep understanding of how to generate value and increase volume through partnerships with hundreds of partners and thousands of customers. Your focus lies in driving channel initiatives while also maintaining and executing the channel strategy for extending Grammarly's business model by developing a portfolio of consulting services and selling partners.
Your expertise extends to navigating complex partnership models to assemble the right portfolio of capable partners to ensure customer success. You approach your work with a process-oriented mindset, utilizing metrics to inform data-driven decision-making. Recognizing the importance of aggressive partner practice development, you understand that investing and enabling partners will yield long-term benefits.
Coming from an enterprise software vendor background, you are eager to seek new challenges at a hyper-growth company where innovative business models can be explored without hesitation.

Qualifications

10+ years of work channel partner experience with a minimum of 5 years of enterprise software industry business development experience developing value-added resellers or related channel business with a focus on education
10+ years of experience in Partner Sales and/or Business Development.
Demonstrates leadership and passion to build and optimize.
Experience that demonstrates an ability to establish and maintain relationships effectively.
Ability to profile, identify, and recruit system integrator/consulting firms and technology partners worldwide.
Outgoing, self-motivated, organized, creative, respectful, high level of integrity and with a can-do attitude.
Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
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.

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. In Canada, all locations where we support employment are considered “Zone 1”.

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. The expected “On Target Earnings” (OTE) for this role are outlined below and may be modified in the future.

United States:

Zone 1: $220,000 – $275,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $198,000 – $248,000/year (USD)

Canada:

Zone 1: $192,000 – $240,000/year (CAD)

The commission portion for this role will be 30% of the On-Target Earnings (OTE). The market-based compensation differentials will be applied only to base pay for commission-eligible team members.

For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

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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