Manager, Observability Architects

🕒 May 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $235k - $286k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏛️ Architect

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Grafana Labs

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in open-source observability technologies and solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and profile management with products like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Their offerings are designed to help businesses visualize, monitor, and alert on data from various sources, providing capabilities such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and service level objective management using AI/ML insights. Grafana Labs provides both cloud-based and self-managed solutions, ideal for infrastructure, application, and frontend observability. Additionally, their platform supports integration with various data sources like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, making them a key player in the observability and infrastructure monitoring space.

📋 Description

• Attract, recruit, ramp, and mentor a team of great Observability Architects from diverse backgrounds and experiences. • With our Engagement Management team, help define, build and execute impactful customer lifecycle frameworks. • Get the best out of your team with a servant-based leadership approach. Adopting a player/coach mentality will be critical here, ensuring that you balance your field responsibilities with the needs of your team. • Be responsible for retention and expansion. • Direct the bulk of your day-to-day work based on guidance and goals from leadership, owning the planning, actions and outcomes of the region. • Partner with the US Sales leadership on customer programs, marketing initiatives and community/company events to drive adoption and expansion within our customer base. • Executive sponsorship of key accounts in the region will be key to your success. The right candidate will be a thought leader to customers and internally within Grafana Labs. • Understanding and contributing to your key customers’ strategies for adoption of Grafana technologies. Developing programs and collateral to enable them to achieve their goals. • Ensure that your customers’ requirements are being met with our product through partnership with Product Management and Engineering. • Own and report on the quarter over quarter cadence of your team while they help prospects evaluate our software with demonstrations, technical deep dives, trials and POVs. • Educating and enabling viewers, editors, and architects how to leverage the Grafana stack. • Assist with building/modifying critical SLA dashboards within the production environment. • Work closely with our sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers. • Proactively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide a feedback loop on our products and the competitive landscape. • Work with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement material.

🎯 Requirements

• Located in a PST Timezone • 3+ years leading a team, 5+ years in the high tech industry having held roles such as TAM Manager, SE Manager, Developer, Sales Engineer/Architect, Manager, etc. • Direct experience mentoring, developing people and managing performance over time. • Experience in Open Source selling or Cloud first/Product led sales go to market motion a big plus. • Deeply knowledgeable of the Operational Expertise in the Grafana Platform (LGTM) and/or competing observability products. • Direct experience selling monitoring/data/visualization products. • You will be creative in solving Customer Adoption Challenges. • Proactively assist customers with technical issues that may arise and assist in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis. • Identify and provide timely workarounds and solutions to meet a customer’s business needs. • You have extensive Grafana deployment design expertise • You will need first class written and oral communication skills to collaborate with our remote-first internal teams and with our worldwide customers. You will need to be able to skillfully articulate our value proposition and the technical advantages of our products. • You will love solving technical challenges and thrive on bringing creative solutions to our customers.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. • Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. • Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. • Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. • Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. • Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. • Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. • Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. • Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. • In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. • Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.