Used Tools & Technologies
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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
OpenTelemetry @ 4
Observability @ 4
AI @ 4
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 focused on observability with products such as Grafana Cloud and the Grafana Enterprise Stack. The company serves a large technical user base and is building for an AI-first world.
Role overview
You will develop vision and strategy for the Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion domain, owning the roadmap and aligning multiple teams around clear priorities. This role focuses on how customers generate, collect, transform, and ingest telemetry into Grafana Cloud and make that data available for fast, reliable, cost-effective querying. You will manage a team of Product Managers and partner closely with Engineering, Design, Technical Writing, Developer Advocacy, Analytics, Product Marketing, and GTM.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own product vision and strategy for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion as a core platform capability for Grafana Cloud
- Align product and technical strategy with senior R&D leaders and multiple engineering teams
- Use customer research, product analytics, and competitive insight to identify high-impact problems and set roadmap priorities
- Define how AI should influence this domain (instrumentation, collection, transformation, cost control, data quality, troubleshooting, query efficiency, agent-facing experiences)
- Build relationships with customers and technical buyers (observability practitioners)
- Support GTM on product differentiation, positioning, packaging, pricing, and launch/field enablement
- Coach and develop Product Managers; set clear strategy, prioritization, and career development
- Create a high-accountability, high-trust environment where teams understand priorities and outcomes
Requirements
- Significant Product Management experience, including leading product strategy across multiple teams 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 other developer/infrastructure domains
- Strong product instincts around AI and how AI can deliver customer value in technical products for developers, SREs, platform and infrastructure teams
- Strong customer empathy, strategic judgment, and cross-functional leadership/communication skills
- 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 points
- 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 and agent-facing product design
- Experience working at an open source or commercial open source company
- Experience partnering with GTM teams on positioning, packaging, pricing, and launch strategy for technical products
Compensation & other details
- Base compensation range in Canada: 257,370 CAD - 308,844 CAD per year
- All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- This is a remote position; Grafana Labs is looking for candidates in Canada
- In-person onboarding and a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (with 3 days reserved for company shutdown days)
Why you’ll thrive
- Remote-first, global culture
- High-growth, innovation-driven environment with transparent communication and empowered teams
- Open source roots and collaborative culture