Corporate Communications Lead
Grammarly offers a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely. Starting in 2022, teams will meet in person every quarter in one of Grammarly’s hubs, currently in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Kyiv. To ensure that teams are able to overlap in their working hours and to meet face-to-face when needed, all team members need to live within three time zones of their direct team.
Grammarly team members who will be collaborating at our San Francisco hub must be based in the United States.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Corporate Communications Lead to join our growing Communications team. The person in this role will lead Grammarly’s corporate communications strategy and oversee its execution. Reporting to the Head of Communications, the Corporate Communications Lead will own Grammarly’s communications efforts across four key dimensions: policy communications, issues management, corporate brand messaging, and internal communications.
Your impact
From helping to define crucial policy communications to best-in-class issues management approaches, to guiding our corporate content and internal comms focus, you will work to ensure our corporate communications are optimized for Grammarly to realize its audacious vision of helping people communicate with confidence.
In this role, you will:
- Manage and grow a team of individual contributors in a variety of communications roles, setting priorities and overseeing career paths for each.
- Define and develop Grammarly’s policy communications strategy.
- Lead Grammarly’s issues response and crisis communications strategy, ensuring processes are continuously optimized.
- Guide corporate brand messaging and content strategy.
- Direct Grammarly’s internal communications efforts.
Curious about what you’ll focus on first?
- In your first 30 days, you will deep-dive on company strategy and business goals, as well as familiarize yourself with Grammarly’s past and current communications strategies, plans, and processes. You’ll also learn about Grammarly’s product roadmap and corporate priorities while you begin to build relationships with key team members.
- By month three, you will take over management of three communications team members. You’ll identify priority policy communications to be developed and draft external-facing policy content to support your newly defined policy communications strategy. You’ll also optimize and further build out our incident and issues management protocols, audit existing corporate brand messaging and content for inconsistencies and gaps, and create a plan to enhance both.
- By month six, you’ll grow the corporate communications team from three to five, which will include clearly defining roles and responsibilities across the team. You’ll also continue executing your policy communications and corporate brand content strategies. Finally, you’ll develop a rolling annual plan for the corporate communications team.
We’re looking for someone who
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Has a successful track record of managing and growing top-performing teams.
- Has experience crafting and executing corporate communications strategies, including internal communications plans.
- Is comfortable building rapid response and crisis communications processes and leading the company through an issue.
- Is a storyteller who can connect seemingly disparate ideas into a logical, coherent whole, and effectively create key messages to drive compelling content development.
- Has impeccable project management skills, with keen attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through.
- Thinks strategically, connects dots, and has a proven track record of building partnerships across an organization to meet shared objectives.
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 own 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 that includes superior health care. We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.
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 U.S. 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 Ukraine, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered at the Kyiv hub to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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