Fast Facts

Grammarly is seeking a Staff Web Designer for Growth Acquisition to create impactful design strategies for user acquisition and conversion, focusing on enhancing user experiences across web platforms.

Responsibilities: Develop growth strategies and user-centric designs for websites and landing pages, conduct A/B testing, mentor junior designers, and collaborate across teams to improve user acquisition processes.

Skills: Strong web/mobile design experience, proficiency in visual and graphic design, storytelling abilities for design direction, and knowledge of user psychology and conversion strategies.

Qualifications: 7+ years of relevant design experience, including web and mobile, knowledge of interactive web elements, and a passion for AI and productivity.

Location: Hybrid - San Francisco, with a dynamic working model that includes both remote and in-office collaboration.

Compensation: $250000 - $305000 / Annually

Grammarly offers a dynamic hub-based 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 trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 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

We’re looking for a curious, data-driven, visually strong, and craft-caring Staff Designer to join our Acquisition team within the Growth Area. Your design and strategy will reach millions of people daily and make Grammarly’s value and first impression clear and motivating, from the moment they discover us through an SEO page or product page to signing up and trying our products for the first time. You’ll collaborate with a fun, diverse team of talented growth experts, all passionate about experimentation and innovative growth strategies. Your influence will shape how Grammarly, Coda, and Superhuman’s AI capabilities are showcased to professionals and students, demonstrating why we are the top AI writing partner!

In this role, you will:

• Growth Strategy: Create strategies and design solutions for our websites, landing pages, search surfaces, and other top-of-funnel surfaces that attract and convert new customers, collaborating with marketing teams to understand target audiences, content and positioning, user journeys, and branding. 
• Growth Design: Design user-centric designs, wireframes, and prototypes optimized for browser and mobile devices, conduct A/B tests, partner with research and data to synthesize learnings and insights, and integrate findings into your design iterations.
• Website Innovation: Envision concepts for new customer acquisition solutions and approaches. Explore cutting-edge web interactions and capabilities, build highly interactive, motion-based elements and productized web experiences, and proactively share how we can push the boundaries.
• Brand and Visual Design: Partner with creative teams to develop and nurture our brand style guides, grow our visual assets, and test applications of multi- and co-branding. Elevate design standards for top-of-funnel surfaces, ensuring on-trend, high-quality execution and vision that pushes us forward.
• Meaningful User Experiences: Thoughtfully partner on how our users get started, from discovering our product capabilities, evaluating and activating, and personalizing their journey through elegant product approaches.
• Mentorship: Mentor junior designers and cross-functional partners, fostering agile problem-solving and encouraging high-quality craft and outcomes.
• Leadership: Actively contribute towards identifying key growth opportunities and building a cohesive roadmap with your team, through understanding Grammarly’s strategic business goals and user needs. Socialize and share best practices to help other designers build best-in-class product experiences.
• Web Systems: Grow the web design system, expand and customize elements, and partner to envision new systems and processes that better serve our future.
• Learn and Guide: Research methods and tools that nurture Acquisition and Design’s momentum and growth, stay curious, and influence not just what we build but how we do it. Be customer-oriented and interested in how we own and showcase value in playful and exciting ways. 
• Communicate and collaborate: Work closely with marketing, product, and engineering teams to align designs with business and acquisition goals. Communicate design concepts, progress, and status updates to stakeholders and team members. Partner with agencies or specialists to integrate new technologies or assist with complex projects. 

Qualifications 

• Has 7+ years of experience designing for web and mobile web, or integrating product design with top-of-funnel surfaces. 
• Has a strong visual/graphic design sense that inspires user experiences and merges with product design sense to ensure a seamless and beautiful out-of-product to in-product journey.
• Possesses storytelling strengths to inspire support and alignment for design direction and strategy. Nurtures strong relationships with collaborators and leaders. 
• Demonstrates prototyping skills for bringing ideas to life.
• Knows and is curious to keep learning how to build productized web experiences, interactive web elements, and motion-based web content that elevates web design standards
• Can adapt between iterative experimentation work and innovation, conceptual work.
• Geeks out on growth strategy, user psychology, and conversion goals, and is curious about how research and data-driven insights inspire design optimization.
• Is passionate and curious about the AI and productivity industry.
• Seeks out and proactively partners with research to develop hypotheses and inform design decisions.
• Balances craft, critical thinking, and business needs delivering meaningful impact.
• Has a growth mindset and runs wholeheartedly toward a challenge.
• 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. 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 maybe modified in the future. 

Zone 1: $250,000 - $305,000/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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