Grammarly
Senior Equity Operations Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $158K - $218K
💻 Operations
🗓️ August 18th, 2025
SOX
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Grammarly is hiring a Senior Equity Operations Manager to lead the technical, operational, and compliance execution of its global equity program. This role manages equity administration processes, ensures data accuracy, supports regulatory compliance, and collaborates across Legal, Finance, Payroll, and People teams to scale and improve equity operations.
Highlights
- Manage grants, releases, exercises, cancellations, and terminations for global equity programs.
- Maintain equity records in Shareworks and reconcile with HRIS, Payroll, and Accounting systems.
- Support monthly and quarterly close processes and assist with stock-based compensation reporting.
- Prepare documentation for SOX compliance, 409A valuations, board approvals, and audits.
- Respond to equity-related inquiries in coordination with the People team.
- Oversee relationships with external stock plan administration services.
- Collaborate with Legal on securities compliance and insider trading policy administration.
- Partner with Payroll and Finance on tax withholding, mobility, and reporting matters.
- Drive process improvements, scalable documentation, and support board materials and M&A projects.
- Required skills include 4–7 years in equity administration or legal/finance roles, CEP Level I certification, advanced Excel/Google Sheets proficiency, and familiarity with equity compensation tools like Shareworks or Carta.
- Compensation range in US Zone 1 is $158,000 - $218,000 per year with competitive benefits including healthcare, retirement matching, paid leave, and wellness stipends.
Senior Equity Operations Manager Full 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 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. Coda, the maker of powerful AI productivity tools, and Superhuman, the leading AI-native email productivity application, are now a part of Grammarly. Together, they are redefining collaboration and transforming how we get work done.
The Opportunity
We're hiring a Senior Equity Operations Manager to propel the next chapter of Grammarly's global equity program. This high-impact, individual contributor role will lead the technical, operational, and compliance execution of this program, working closely with Legal, People, and external advisors, and reporting to the VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations on the Finance team.
This is a growth opportunity for a driven, detail-oriented equity operations or legal/finance professional experienced in equity administration, M&A, or cap table management, eager to take ownership and scale processes. More specifically, this role will:
- Support the administration of Grammarly’s global equity programs, managing grants, releases, exercises, cancellations, and terminations
- Ensure equity record accuracy in Shareworks, reconciling with HRIS, Payroll, and Accounting
- Maintain equity transaction data, support monthly/quarterly close processes, and assist with stock-based compensation reporting
- Prepare supporting documentation for SOX compliance, 409A valuations, board approvals, and external audit requests
- Respond to equity inquiries with timely, accurate communication alongside the People team.
- Supervise and manage relationships with external stock plan administration services
- Coordinate closely with Legal on securities compliance, insider trading policy administration, and cap table updates
- Partner with Payroll and Finance on tax withholding, mobility, and reporting
- Drive process improvements and scalable procedure documentation as the company expands
- Assist with board materials and cross-functional projects related to liquidity, expansion, and M&A
Qualifications
- 4–7 years of progressive experience in equity administration or legal/finance roles with relevant exposure (e.g., M&A, cap table operations, securities law, or tax)
- Attained CEP Level I certification. Bonus points for candidates who have attained / are attaining CEP Level II
- Strong analytical skills and advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, and ideally Coda
- Working knowledge of equity compensation plans (ISOs, NSOs, RSUs), equity taxation concepts, and SEC or global compliance matters
- Direct experience supporting companies during late-stage private financings, private-to-private stock-based M&A, facilitating secondary share transactions, and/or preparing for an IPO
- Familiarity with equity compensation tools such as Shareworks, Carta, or similar, or equivalent experience with comparable platforms
- Experience collaborating across Finance, Legal, Payroll, and People teams
- Strong attention to detail, data integrity, and the ability to work independently
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving structures and policies
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 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.
United States:
Zone 1: $158,000 - $218,000/year
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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