The future is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Privacy Engineer to join our Privacy team. The Privacy team is part of the Security org, which is broadly responsible for upholding user trust. This team focuses on software services and product experiences across Grammarly related to identity, consent management, anonymization, and data stewardship. This role involves reviewing, designing, and risk assessments for user experiences in all company areas. You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, marketing, and data science, to ensure our user-facing features uphold our trust goals.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers can innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is multiplying as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As a Privacy Engineer, you’ll have a significant impact and visibility in shaping how users interact with and consent to their data.

In this role, you will:

• Perform technical privacy impact assessments of features that Grammarly launches.
• Influence a world-class user experience, enabling users to give meaningful consent as they navigate Grammarly’s product offerings.
• Build and operate data stewardship tools as they relate to the components of Grammarly’s integrations and internal software.
• Review and set the requirements for de-identification, pseudonymization, and data masking technologies.
• Drive business impact by collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and designers on privacy initiatives.
• Learn the industry's best trust practices.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has a growth mindset and is focused on delivering measurable business impact.
• Has experience in conducting PIA assessments and interpreting requirements such as GDPR, CCPA, and the DMA
• Is code fluent and has a track record of working with engineering teams to achieve privacy outcomes
• Has experience in applying machine learning to solving problems and mitigating privacy risks
• Can quickly adapt to new systems written in different languages and paradigms.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement 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. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.

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
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

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.

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, 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).

Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates.

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