Used Tools & Technologies
Not specified
Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Marketing @ 4
Grafana @ 4
Prometheus @ 4
ETL @ 4
Distributed Systems @ 4
Hiring @ 4
Leadership @ 7
Communication @ 7
Prioritization @ 4
Performance Optimization @ 4
Product Management @ 4
Compliance @ 4
OpenTelemetry @ 4
Observability @ 4
AI @ 6
Data Pipelines @ 7
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company serving more than 20M users and 3,000+ companies with the Grafana observability stack (Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise). The Director of Product Management role is a remote position based in Spain. You will develop vision and strategy for a broad product domain, align multiple teams around clear priorities, and ensure product decisions support customer outcomes and Grafana Labs’ business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Own product vision and strategy for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion as a core platform capability for Grafana Cloud.
- Align multiple product and engineering teams around clear priorities and roadmaps that balance customer value, platform leverage, operational excellence, and business impact.
- Use customer research, product analytics, and competitive insight to identify high-impact problems and opportunities.
- Define how AI should influence telemetry workflows, including instrumentation, collection, transformation, cost control, data quality, querying efficiency, and troubleshooting.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, Technical Writing, Developer Advocacy, Analytics, Product Marketing, GTM, and executive stakeholders to shape product direction, positioning, pricing, and launches.
- Build relationships with technical buyers and observability practitioners; support field enablement and GTM alignment.
- Manage and develop a team of Product Managers: set strategy, coach on prioritization and stakeholder management, and support career growth.
- Create a high-accountability, high-trust environment where PMs and cross-functional teams understand priorities and how their work contributes to company success.
Requirements
- Significant Product Management experience, including leading product strategy across multiple teams, product areas, or complex technical workflows.
- Experience directly managing Product Managers (coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, career development).
- Strong technical fluency in infrastructure, cloud platforms, observability, telemetry, data pipelines, high-scale databases, or related developer/infrastructure domains.
- Strong product instincts around AI and experience identifying where AI can add meaningful customer value in technical products used by developers, SREs, platform teams, or infrastructure teams.
- Strong customer empathy and strategic judgment to translate complex customer problems into clear strategy and roadmap tradeoffs.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills with experience influencing Engineering, Design, Technical Writing, Developer Advocacy, Analytics, Product Marketing, GTM, and executives.
- Ability to create clarity in ambiguity and operate effectively in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.
- BS/BA in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus (Preferred) Qualifications
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana Alloy, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo, and/or Grafana Pyroscope.
- Experience with ETL, telemetry pipelines, large-scale data processing, sampling, filtering, enrichment, routing, or cost/performance optimization.
- Experience with high-scale databases, distributed systems, or big data platforms.
- Experience building AI-enabled product experiences for technical users or working at an open source / commercial open source company.
- Experience partnering with GTM teams on positioning, packaging, pricing, launch strategy, or field enablement.
Compensation
- In Spain, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 129,847 - 155,817. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs
- 100% remote, global culture with a remote-first approach.
- Scaling organization with opportunities for meaningful, high-impact work.
- Transparent communication, innovation-driven environment, open source roots, and empowered teams.
- In-person onboarding; 30 days annual leave (with 3 Grafana Shutdown Days) and compliance with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity & Privacy
Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer. The company may utilize AI tools in recruitment to assist in matching CVs to job postings; recruitment teams continue to review applications manually. For details on data usage after application, see Grafana Labs' applicant privacy policy.