Principal Product Designer, Core

Grammarly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 305,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

Grammarly, a leader in AI writing assistance, seeks a Principal Product Designer in San Francisco to lead innovative product design and mentor other designers. This role encompasses creating new product offerings and collaborating with senior leadership. Ideal candidates will have extensive UX experience and strong communication skills, along with a passion for fostering creativity and product excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in UX design.
• Expertise in advanced design methods and tools.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of high-impact projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Mentor other designers.

Skills

UX design

advanced design methods

prototyping mindset

communication skills

storytelling skills

ethics

adaptability

grit

empathy

remarkable

Job description

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 the Fortune 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 Principal Product Designer to join our Core Design team. This role will lead the work of critical new product offerings, mentor and inspire the broader design team, and partner closely with cross-functional teams in Product, UX Research, Data Science, and Engineering to shape the future of AI-powered communication tools.

As Principal Product Designer in our San Francisco hub, you will partner directly with senior leadership to create the next generation of offerings from Grammarly. You will play a critical role in exploring, defining, and designing novel interfaces for interacting with AI, and your work will influence the entire core product. In addition to leading through craft, you will mentor other designers, and help build and foster a culture of creativity, product excellence, and trust.

In this role, you will

• Own and provide creation direction for key product surfaces and act as the lead designer on high-impact projects.
• Help define the next generation of strategy and product offerings from Grammarly, including providing input on brand and design language, in addition to core product design.
• Collaborate closely with senior product- and design leaders to continuously evolve and materialize the long-term vision for Grammarly.
• Mentor and help elevate the craft of designers across Core and Mobile.
• Build close partnerships with key stakeholders across engineering, product, and design. Drive cross-functional alignment and collaboration as part of a leadership team.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in UX design, with a solid foundation in digital product design in fast-paced, iterative environments.
• Has expertise in advanced design methods and tools.
• Has exceptionally strong aesthetic sensibilities.
• Has a prototyping mindset, communicates ideas through interactive mocks or rough functional prototypes, and can mentor and teach other designers prototyping tools and methodologies.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex product requirements into a compelling vision that influences senior leadership
• Proven experience in taking products from initial concept to launch.
• 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.

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: $305,000 – $372,000/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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