Grafana Labs
Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering | CST | Remote
Job Summary
The Senior Manager of Solutions Engineering at Grafana Labs is responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of Solution Engineers in the Central Region. The role involves developing go-to-market strategies, managing customer relationships post-sale, and collaborating with marketing, product, and engineering teams to drive adoption of Grafana's open-source and commercial products. Leadership responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, and mentoring team members, as well as owning regional planning and quota achievement. Candidates should have extensive experience in high tech, sales engineering, and managing teams, with knowledge of monitoring, data visualization, and DevOps tools highly valued.
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Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Attract, recruit, ramp, and mentor a team of great Presales SE’s from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Get the best out of your team with a coaching mindset and lead from the front approach. Adopting a player/coach mentality will be critical here, ensuring that you balance your field responsibilities with the needs of your team.
- This role requires you to lead from the front! 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.
- Direct the bulk of your day-to-day work based on guidance and goals from your leadership, owning the planning, actions and outcomes of the region.
- Partner with Sales leadership on top of funnel programs, marketing initiatives and community/company events to drive awareness of Grafana’s brand and the problems we help solve.
- Understanding your key customers’ strategies for adoption of Grafana technologies and developing programs and collateral to enable them to be successful.
- 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 discovery, demonstrations, key stakeholder interviews, workshops and technical validation, including POVs and Mutual Account Plans
- Own your teams PG plan in partnership with your sales and sales leader counterparts, helping build pipeline for new logo targets
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- Located in Central Region of the US
- 5+ years in the high tech industry having held roles such as 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.
- Direct experience implementing and/or executing a formal sales methodology, Command of the Message, qualification frameworks like MEDDPICC.
- Direct experience selling monitoring/data/visualization products.
- Direct experience in DevOps (IaC, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc) a plus
- Proven ability to own a book of business, direct your own and your team's work and initiatives to exceed your quarterly targets.
- Proven ability to work with sales leader counterparts
In the US, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is $254,000 - $305,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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