Senior Mixed Methods Researcher, Growth

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.

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 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 goals, we’re looking for a mixed methods researcher to join our UX and Marketing Research team. This role will focus on driving research within Grammarly’s Growth team, delivering insights that drive growth across the user journey, such as acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization efforts. 

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams—Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing—to identify critical business questions, apply rigorous methodological approaches, and synthesize insights that inform strategic decisions. Using various techniques, you’ll uncover actionable insights about current and potential Grammarly users. You will also foster a culture of human-centered, data-driven decision-making, helping to guide our evolution as a leader in AI-assisted communication.

In this role, you will:

• Work cross-functionally with data science, product management, marketing, design, and engineering to identify research topics.
• Use an understanding of marketing funnels and growth tactics to scope and conduct research studies contributing to business impact.
• Understand Grammarly’s strategic business goals and user needs to actively contribute toward building a cohesive roadmap with your team.
• Monitor key growth metrics, such as conversion rates, revenue growth, and experimentation results to assess performance.
• Use research to lead vision and strategy discussions by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.
• Act as a thought leader in the research domain, while advocating for the current or potential customers.
• Design and execute end-to-end custom primary research using a wide variety of methods.
• Work quickly and communicate effectively with a fast-paced team focused on speed, rigor, and quality.
• Generate insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate potential solutions.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously.

• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience in user experience, applied research,  and product research and development, Master’s degree with 2+ years relevant experience, or a PhD with 1+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in programming languages for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., R, SQL, STATA, SPSS, or equivalent).
• Experience with experimental survey design, surveys, and response effects.
• Experience applying advanced statistical analysis methods. 
• Experience designing, moderating, and analyzing qualitative research. 
• Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives.
• Experience with growth strategies, including user acquisition, retention, and monetization.
• Experience understanding growth experimentation results.
• Experience mentoring and fostering a culture of growth and development within a research team.
• Has excellent communication skills, effectively articulating the rationale behind research direction and confidently presenting to diverse groups of stakeholders.
• Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
• 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 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: $200,000 – $275,000/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).

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