Senior Corporate Counsel

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in San Francisco, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 days per week.

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.

To achieve our ambitious and exciting goals, we’re looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel to join Grammarly’s Legal team to work on a wide variety of corporate transactional and governance matters. Among other things, this role will oversee legal due diligence and support the structuring and negotiation of a variety of corporate transactions, oversee legal post-closing integration, and support general corporate governance and investor relations matters. Reporting directly to Grammarly’s Head of Corporate and Compliance, Legal, this role will partner closely with our Executive, Corporate Development, Finance, and People teams to develop strong, extensible and repeatable practices to help move the business forward.

As a core member and contributor on the Grammarly Legal team, this person will also help develop and bolster the culture of the Legal team by exemplifying care for their craft, care for others, and a commitment to finding collaborative solutions to complex questions. 

As Grammarly’s Senior Corporate Counsel, you will leverage your corporate and transactional experience and expertise to support and accelerate Grammarly's next era of growth. You will take on critical, high-profile corporate projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership. You will use your background, skill, and creativity to efficiently use outside counsel, build repeatable cross-functional processes, build trust across the legal team and the business all with an eye toward achieving our strategic corporate goals.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level on corporate transactional and investor-related matters.
• Structure, conduct, and manage legal due diligence, engaging internal and external partners when necessary to ensure alignment
• Draft, negotiate, socialize, and review transaction documents
• Assisting in deal execution logistics, including supporting post-closing integration and compliance efforts
• Support corporate governance matters, including corporate entity management, new entity development and implementation, equity program strategic planning, and board-related matters 
• Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk 
• Advise internal stakeholders, providing clear, concise, and thorough guidance on legal risks, obligations, and mitigations 

• Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 2 days per week and potentially other hubs 3 weeks per quarter.
• Brings a proven background (8+ years) in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, due diligence, and integration activities, with training at a top-tier law firm and solid in-house experience
• Has experience supporting finance (including corporate development, capital structures and fundraising) and investor relations at a high-growth and innovative technology company and a track record of driving alignment and delivering results on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders.
• Demonstrates excellent time management skills to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk tolerance and balancing to drive the business forward.
• Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing.
• Holds a JD and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state.
• 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.

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: $264,000 – $363,000/year (USD)

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).