NEW DELHI: Digital writing assistant software Grammarly has roped in Google’s Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as global head of product. Roy-Chowdhury announced the move via a post on professional networking site LinkedIn. He was with the search giant for 14 years in various capacities, the most recent being vice president – product management.

“I leave Google with a sense of gratitude and tremendous pride at how our work at Google improved the lives of billions of people around the world. From working on Chrome from the early days to scaling it to billions of users to working on making Google’s product offerings more private, safe, and secure, it’s been a blast,” he wrote.

At Google, Roy-Chowdhury was leading the privacy, safety, and security teams to unified solutions across the tech behemoth's product portfolio. Prior to that, he spent ten years on Chrome, leading the product management teams for Chrome browser and Chrome OS. He has also had stints at Solidcore Systems and Lazard Frères. He has a BA in mathematics from Hamilton College, an MS in computer science from Columbia University, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover wrote in a blog post welcoming the new appointee, "Rahul brings deep expertise leading product, data, and design teams to build and scale them to a broad global audience. This includes building out widely used consumer products, developer platforms, and enterprise offerings, with a focus on privacy and user trust.”