Senior Product Manager, App O11y | Germany | Remote

📍 Germany

EUR 99,900-119,900 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

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Details

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Application Observability (App O11y). This fully remote role is open to candidates located in Germany.

The role focuses on helping application developers and SREs understand application performance, user impact, and where to focus when issues occur. You will build App O11y on the Knowledge Graph, integrate traces and profiles, connect these capabilities with Grafana Cloud's full-stack observability experience, and develop AI-first workflows for investigation, root-cause analysis, and action.

Responsibilities

Define the vision and roadmap for Application Observability and drive adoption and revenue growth.
Conduct customer discovery and use product data to identify user problems and areas of friction.
Partner with Engineering and Design to establish priorities and deliver product improvements.
Balance new product opportunities with the depth, performance, and reliability requirements of tracing and profiling.
Collaborate across R&D to integrate App O11y with the broader Grafana Cloud suite.
Work with Product Marketing and go-to-market teams on product differentiation, presentations, documentation, website content, datasheets, and whitepapers.
Define and evolve go-to-market strategies, pricing, packaging, licensing, and tiering.
Represent customer feedback to Engineering and provide evidence for trade-offs and priorities.
Review customer feedback and usage data to improve adoption and revenue growth.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
At least 5 years of Product Management experience.
At least 5 years of experience with B2B SaaS products.
Experience using or building observability products, telemetry databases, or developer tools.
Strong understanding of application architectures and distributed systems.
Ability to discuss trade-offs involving telemetry ingestion, storage, querying, and related workflows.
Experience working with Engineering and Design teams in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with OpenTelemetry, application instrumentation, SDKs, and telemetry collectors.
Experience with distributed tracing or continuous profiling systems such as Grafana Tempo or Grafana Pyroscope.
Experience with eBPF or automatic instrumentation.
Experience with open-source software or commercial open-source companies.
Experience defining or evolving pricing and packaging for consumption-based or product-led SaaS offerings.
Experience operating applications in production, being on call, or troubleshooting performance and reliability issues.

Compensation

The base compensation range in Germany is EUR 99,945–119,934 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. The role also includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Benefits

Fully remote, globally distributed work environment.
In-person onboarding.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days where applicable.
Career growth opportunities and an open, collaborative culture.