Senior Visual Designer

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 curious, energetic, and craft-caring Senior Visual Designer to join our Growth Design team. The Growth Design team optimizes and re-invests the customer journey from discovery to long-term engagement, from the moment a user discovers us through web, social or their organization, to in-product onboarding, upgrading their experience, and continuously engaging with us over time. In this role, you’ll create high-quality graphics, animations, and other visual assets and elements that enhance our customers’ whole end-to-end experience. You’ll collaborate with a fun, diverse team of talented growth experts to develop concepts and assets for a variety of digital touchpoints, including websites, in-product onboarding experiences, lifecycle marketing moments, paywalls and preview experiences, new feature moments, and personalization surfaces. Your expertise and eye for detail in typography, color theory, graphic design, and layout will be essential in ensuring our customer journeys are meaningful, clear, educational, and inspiring, especially as Grammarly grows toward its multi-product future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and execution of visual assets for web and mobile product experiences, product experiments, and growth design materials.
• Develop and refine processes for intake, partnership, and visual asset production, and partner with Design Operations to socialize and scale systems
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, marketers, and other stakeholders to deliver cohesive and impactful design solutions, and advocate for high-quality design standards
• Partner closely with product and content designers, motivating a culture of creativity, communication excellence, and visual support
• Incorporate data-driven insights and stakeholder feedback to iterate on and improve designs
• Create moments of user delight and personality. Storyboard and imagine how static and motion elements enhance user engagement
• Partner with the Design Foundations and Brand Creative teams to develop, maintain, and advocate for design systems, style guides, and brand standards at the individual product and company level
• Ensure visual consistency and brand alignment across user touchpoints. Share visual insights from growth experiments with Design partner teams to foster collective knowledge building
• Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to drive innovation and best-in-class craft.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience as a visual designer or in a similar design role.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and modern design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch).
• Strong portfolio showcasing a breadth of visual design projects, graphic design production, visual systems, communication design, and creative problem-solving.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred:

• Experience with motion graphics or product animation. Curiosity and hunger to learn and deepen product motion skills.
• Familiarity with UX/UI principles and web accessibility standards.
• Experience working in cross-functional and agile teams.

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.

In Canada, all locations where we support employment are considered “Zone 1”.

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 maybe modified in the future.

Zone 1: $ 171,000 - $235,000/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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Join our journey

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Step into the next stage of your career. Grammarly offers a rare mix of steady profitability, industry-leading innovation, and passionate colleagues. We encourage people of all backgrounds, orientations, and identities to apply.