Startup Program Manager

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

The Opportunity

Superhuman is looking for a Startups Program Manager to support and grow our Superhuman for Startups program and help expand our footprint across the startup and AI ecosystem. This is a high-impact, full-time position with meaningful ownership across community-led growth, field marketing, partnerships, and program operations.

This role is highly cross-functional and execution-focused. You’ll play a key part in running programs that drive awareness, adoption, and long-term affinity for Superhuman among founders, operators, VCs, and ecosystem partners.

In this role, you will:

Support & Grow Superhuman for Startups (Core Responsibility)

• Design, execute, and help scale the Superhuman for Startups program, working closely with senior stakeholders to align on strategy and deliver results.

• Build and maintain relationships with top VC funds, accelerators, and startup ecosystem partners.

• Increase penetration and adoption within partner portfolios through enablement, education, and activation strategies.

• Manage inbound applications, partner onboarding, and ongoing partner success.

• Support co-marketing and bundled offers with ecosystem partners (e.g. AWS, Rippling, Mercury).

Field Marketing & Community Building

• Build and execute a startup-focused field marketing strategy to drive awareness and brand affinity for Superhuman

• Plan and own execution of events in partnership with accelerators, VCs, and ecosystem partners, and translate learnings into repeatable playbooks (e.g. meetups, happy hours, founder dinners).

• Help evaluate and manage sponsorships of high-impact ecosystem events.

Program Operations, Scaling & Optimization

• Maintain and improve systems, processes, and documentation to support program growth.

• Track program performance, adoption, and partner outcomes; surface insights and recommendations.

• Support operational excellence as the program expands in scope and volume.

Expanded Community & Strategic Initiatives

• Help identify new acquisition and engagement levers, including founder referrals and community-led GTM motions.

• Partner with PMM and Marketing to support thought leadership initiatives targeted at founders and operators.

• Collaborate with Marketing and Product to evolve perks, messaging, and cross-product adoption.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Marketing, Partnerships, Product, Growth, and Community teams to deliver outcomes.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to align on goals, timelines, and impact.

• Provide clear updates, documented learnings, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in program management, community building, partnerships, or field marketing—ideally in startups, SaaS, or tech.

• Proven ability to own programs end-to-end and optimize them thoughtfully.

• Strong relationship-builder who is excited about engaging with founders, operators, and ecosystem partners.

• Highly organized, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating with ambiguity.

• Strategic thinker who can also roll up their sleeves to execute.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Location: We're open to you joining us in our San Francisco and New York offices.

Compensation and benefits

Superhuman 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

Superhuman 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: $137,000- $205,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, 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. Superhuman 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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