Senior Solutions Engineer, Acquisition | East Coast | Remote
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- 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.
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- 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 seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to join its Enterprise Solutions Engineering team. The team consists of customer-facing product experts who support global growth by educating potential and existing customers through demos, hands-on enablement, presentations, technical evaluations, and ongoing engagement. Solutions Engineers also partner closely with Sales to qualify and close opportunities and communicate customer feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Join an early member of a high-growth team solving technical and customer problems.
- Partner with Sales to articulate Grafana's value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers.
- Own technical customer engagements and help close high-velocity opportunities through competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility.
- Deliver product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers.
- Communicate proactively with customers and internal teams to provide feedback on products and the competitive landscape.
- Drive product conversations based on customer needs and problems identified during interactions.
- Enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement materials.
Requirements
- Ideally located in the Greater New York City or Boston area.
- 5+ years of technical pre-sales experience, ideally with open-source technologies or in the metrics and monitoring space.
- Strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership skills in a startup environment with varied and complex responsibilities.
- Ability to work and collaborate with an international, remote-first team.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to articulate the company's value proposition and the technical advantages of its products.
- Enjoyment of solving technical challenges and creating solutions for customers.
- A technical mindset and desire to continue growing technically.
- Candidates may have experience from a coding bootcamp, post-sales role, or engineering background.
- Self-motivation, initiative, and creativity.
Compensation & Rewards
The United States on-target earnings compensation range is $204,000–$254,000 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skill set. The role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Benefits
- 100% remote, global work culture.
- High-growth environment.
- Transparent communication and open decision-making.
- Autonomy and support to innovate.
- Open-source company culture.
- Empowered, high-trust teams.
- Career growth pathways.
- In-person onboarding.
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days.
- Equal opportunity employer.
Grafana Labs may use AI tools during recruitment to assist in matching CV information to job postings; the recruitment team will continue to manually review CVs.