Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry

📍 Germany

EUR 124,600-149,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

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Details

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the end-to-end OpenTelemetry experience for helping people and coding agents instrument workloads and successfully send useful OpenTelemetry data to Grafana Cloud. This fully remote role is open to candidates in Germany.

Responsibilities

Define the vision, strategy, and cross-product roadmap for the journey from an uninstrumented workload to healthy, useful telemetry in Grafana Cloud solutions.
Create coherent experiences across SDK instrumentation, automatic instrumentation, and OpenTelemetry Collector-based deployment while preserving flexibility for advanced users.
Improve OpenTelemetry SDK onboarding and configuration, including OTLP, Collector pipelines, telemetry context, and semantic conventions.
Lead experiences for automatic instrumentation technologies such as OBI/Beyla, SDK injection, and runtime-based instrumentation.
Own client-side OpenTelemetry Collector deployment, onboarding, configuration, authentication, and initial connectivity.
Provide guidance and machine-readable context to help people and coding agents choose the right instrumentation approach.
Design workflows that allow coding agents to implement, configure, and safely verify instrumentation.
Identify and eliminate setup failures, abandonment, misconfiguration, and low-quality telemetry.
Develop troubleshooting and validation workflows for missing, incomplete, malformed, or unhealthy telemetry.
Establish shared experience principles, priorities, and success criteria across product and engineering teams.
Use customer research, product data, and market insight to prioritize investments and measure outcomes such as onboarding completion, time to useful telemetry, telemetry health, and workload expansion.
Partner with Application Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring, Infrastructure Observability, and Drilldown Apps teams to create a coherent transition from telemetry ingestion to meaningful product activation.
Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Documentation, Developer Relations, Product Marketing, and go-to-market teams.
Help define product positioning, launches, technical content, adoption programs, and campaigns for the OpenTelemetry experience.
Represent Grafana Labs and its customers in relevant OpenTelemetry ecosystem discussions.
Use AI tools to accelerate customer-research synthesis, analyze product signals, explore technical workflows, prototype experiences, develop positioning content, and test agent-led instrumentation journeys.

Requirements

5+ years of Product Management experience with a strong track record in developer tools, observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or another technically complex B2B product domain.
Experience leading strategy and execution across multiple engineering teams or product areas without relying on direct organizational authority.
Strong working knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including SDK instrumentation, OTLP, Collector pipelines, telemetry context, and semantic conventions.
Experience using or building instrumentation systems, agents, telemetry collectors, configuration products, or related infrastructure.
Understanding of deploying and operating software across Kubernetes, virtual machines, and public cloud environments.
Experience turning complex onboarding, configuration, and troubleshooting workflows into clear product experiences.
History of using customer research and product data to make decisions, align stakeholders, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders in a remote, globally distributed organization.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience contributing to or building products around the OpenTelemetry or broader open source observability ecosystem.
Experience with automatic instrumentation, eBPF, or runtime-based instrumentation.
Firsthand experience as an SRE, platform engineer, developer, or observability practitioner.
Experience building product-led onboarding, configuration-validation, or telemetry-health experiences at scale.

Compensation

The base compensation range in Germany is EUR 124,571–149,485. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. The role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Benefits

100% remote, global culture.
In-person onboarding.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
Career growth pathways.
Transparent communication, empowered teams, and an innovation-driven environment.