Manager, Observability Architects| West Coast| Remote

Details

• 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 AMER West 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
• 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
• 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 within 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
• 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.