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Director, Paid Acquisition

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Grammarly is seeking a Director of Paid Acquisition to lead and optimize their paid marketing efforts, focusing on user growth for their self-serve products, while fostering team development in a hybrid working environment.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Responsibilities: This role involves leading a team of channel managers, managing substantial marketing budgets, monitoring campaign performance, collaborating with internal teams, and evolving MarTech solutions for efficiency.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Skills: Candidates should possess advanced data analysis skills, strong understanding of ROI and various marketing metrics, as well as experience across multiple paid marketing channels.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Qualifications: Ideal candidates will be strategic thinkers with a strong business acumen, have a robust understanding of marketing fundamentals, and embody the values of being ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Location: This position is hybrid with a primary location in San Francisco, allowing flexible work arrangements.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Compensation: $242000 - $336000 / 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 30 million people and 70,000 teams. 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 

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results. Grammarly has been profitable for over a decade because we’ve stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that’s secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work—without selling their data. We’re proud to be one of Inc.’s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Director of Paid Acquisition to join our Acquisition Marketing team. This role will be pivotal in leading many of Grammarly's paid marketing efforts to acquire new users for our self-serve products. This task directly impacts our ambitious user growth and revenue goals. This role involves developing a comprehensive strategy, implementing robust targeting, testing, and tracking capabilities, and building/leading/coaching a team that can meet the demands of a rapidly growing business. The Director will manage a team of channel managers across various platforms, including paid search, display/programmatic, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, affiliates, sponsored content, and other testing channels. 

As Director of Paid Acquisition, you will balance growth targets and efficiency across existing and emerging channels. In this role, you will:

  • Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of paid acquisition marketers, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities to ensure the team's success.
  • Effectively manage and optimize substantial marketing budgets, allocating budgets across channels, markets, and campaigns to achieve maximum ROI and meet acquisition targets.
  • Continuously monitor campaign performance, conduct in-depth analysis, and leverage insights to refine strategies, identify opportunities for improvement, and drive optimization.
  • Collaborate closely with internal teams, including creative, analytics, and product marketing, to ensure alignment of our ad initiatives with overall business objectives and messaging.
  • Evolve our MarTech stack and automation solutions to drive maximum efficiency and impact across the team. Examples include dynamic/granular LTV bidding, multi-touch attribution, MMMs, and DV360/CM360 implementation.
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in paid acquisition marketing, leveraging new opportunities and technologies to evolve our acquisition machine.

Qualifications

  • Is performance and results orientated - you lean into being objective and measuring performance.
  • Is a strategic thinker - you ideate, asses, and create the future, considering many factors despite high degrees of uncertainty.
  • Is data-minded - you have advanced data analysis skills, a strong understanding of web tracking principles, and basic attribution chops.
  • Has strong business acumen— you understand fundamental business concepts, such as ROI, payback period, LTV, risk mitigation/hedging, and contingency planning.
  • Is experienced with paid marketing channel management—you can plan/execute/optimize campaigns across at least five different platforms.
  • Understands marketing analytics—you understand CPA, ROI, LTV, and payback periods and are fluent in how different metrics affect each other.
  • Values marketing testing— Specifically, you can devise a sound experiment to obtain learning with incomplete data.
  • Demonstrates strong marketing fundamentals across all key disciplines—you have a hefty understanding of how Brand, Product, Lifecycle, Content, and Performance Marketing all work together toward common goals.
  • 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.

Zone 1: $242,000 – $336,000/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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Grammarly is a Ukraine-founded cloud-based writing tool that provides grammar and spell checking, plagiarism detection services, and more. The company was launched in 2009 and is available accross multiple platforms as a standalone application.

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