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Grammarly · 10 hours ago

Legal Program Manager - Product, Privacy, and Policy

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$152K/yr - $209K/yr

8+ years exp

Grammarly, now part of Superhuman, is an AI productivity platform that aims to unlock human potential through its suite of applications. The Legal Program Manager will drive strategic priorities across product, privacy, IP, and policy, managing cross-functional initiatives and improving team processes and governance.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Be a core driver of our team’s operating model, helping define and translate our strategic priorities across product, privacy, IP, and policy into clear, actionable programs. You’ll distill ambiguous business or regulatory challenges into problem-statements, map the workstreams needed, assign accountability, steer execution end-to-end, and help us track and celebrate wins

Own large-scale cross-functional initiatives where Legal is either the lead or a key participant. You’ll partner with product, engineering, data science, privacy, policy, and other teams and enable executive-level visibility and decision-making. You’ll anticipate friction, escalate thoughtfully, and keep complex efforts moving

Work closely with other teams like Legal Ops, Strategy & Ops, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to identify, design, and deploy processes, tools, and metrics that improve how our team works. That means operationalizing intake, triage, prioritization, automation, reporting, dashboards, and reuse of legal deliverables at scale

Become the organizer and steward of our team’s “ways of working” across product, privacy, IP and public policy. You’ll build, refine, automate, and embed operating rhythms, project governance, tooling and reporting — preserving privilege and enabling transparency where appropriate

Qualification

Program managementLegal compliancePrivacy regulationsCross-functional communicationStakeholder managementProcess frameworksTechnical literacyCollaborative mindsetIndependent workAdaptability

Required

8+ years of experience in program or project management in a legal, compliance, or highly regulated tech environment —ideally with exposure to product/legal operations, privacy, IP, and public policy/regulatory affairs

Comfortable working in high-ambiguity, fast-moving environments with distributed teams across multiple geographies/timezones including especially Europe and North America. You proactively set direction even when the problem statement is fuzzy

Demonstrated ability to break down large strategic initiatives into structured workstreams, assign owners, track dependencies and risks, drive to progress, and pivot when priorities shift

Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder-management skills – you'll routinely work with legal counsel, product managers, engineers, data & privacy teams, external advisors, and execs. You create and maintain 'neural networks' across the organisation, and are comfortable communicating in a way that's tailored to different audiences

Excellent operational instincts: you've built or managed process frameworks (intake, triage, prioritisation, dashboards/KPIs, escalation paths, reporting), ideally in a legal or compliance context, and with the assistance of AI. Bonus points if you're already using our products to get things done, or are familiar with other tools we use like Jira, Slack, and Brightflag!

Comfort with legal subject matter (even if not practising lawyer) including: product-related legal issues, privacy/data protection compliance (e.g. GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, global privacy regimes), IP (e.g. invention disclosures, trademarks/patents, protection of know-how), and public policy/regulatory affairs (e.g. regulation affecting tech/AI/consumer data)

Technical literacy: you understand product development (especially SaaS, cloud or AI/ML contexts), data flows, engineering and privacy-by-design concepts. You can work fluidly with tools or suggest improvements

A collaborative, low-ego mindset, aligned with our legal team culture of being friendly and solution-oriented

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 values—ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic and remarkable—and embraces our principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust

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