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Manager, Foundation Observability Architects | EST USA | Remote

Query, visualize, alert on, and understand your data no matter where it’s stored.

Grafana Labs

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 237k-278k USD

United States only

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for the founding manager of our scaled Observability Architect team at Grafana Labs. As an OA leader, you will be at the vanguard of evolving our practice to meet the unique demands of our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to one of the first leaders of our Observability Architecture team–a technically elite team that will redefine what a Customer Solution Engineer is in our industry. This team is quickly becoming the envy of the Observability space. You will be responsible for all aspects of building and managing a team of high-performing Observability Architects. This team is our in-house, customer-facing solution experts.

This role’s focus is Grafana Labs’ Foundation, or scaled customer segment. The Foundation team differentiates itself from our high touch enterprise segments by driving activation, consumption, and retention at scale using programmatic, data-driven approaches. Each Observability Architect impacts a high number of customers. Your team will blend proactive outreach, one-to-many enablement programs, lightweight reactive assistance, and automated workflows to help a broad customer base quickly realize value from Grafana without requiring bespoke, hands-on engagements.

The Observability Architect is a deep technical and customer lifecycle specialist who, with the help of account teams, owns the platform onboarding, adoption and expansion experience for Grafana's customers. They are responsible for the rapid and successful application of our technology. The OA team enables Grafana Labs’s worldwide growth by educating existing customers to ensure they are happy, successful and realizing genuine value. They share their technical and product expertise with customers through demos, hands-on enablement, presentations, design guidance, technical evaluations and ongoing interaction. They partner closely with our Sales team to identify new problems to solve for our customers. The OAs are our customers’ primary technical contact as well as the voice of our customers to the Product Management and Engineering teams.

What You'll Be Doing:

Build Lead a High-Performing Team

  • Recruit, ramp, mentor, and manage the performance of deeply technical Observability Architects from diverse backgrounds.
  • Serve as a player/coach—balancing strategic leadership with hands-on support.
  • Own retention and expansion.
  • Bring out the best in your team.

Programs That Scale Activation Usage

  • Design one-to-many onboarding programs, enablement campaigns, usage webinars, and in-app nudges, triggered by real-time consumption or sentiment data.
  • Work with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement material
  • Define, refine and execute lifecycle frameworks—from onboarding to expansion to renewal.

Data‑Driven Technical Action Triggers

  • Monitor consumption, health, and sentiment signals to proactively intervene with automation or human touch.
  • Own escalations, technical troubleshooting, and customer outreach for stalled or at-risk accounts.

Customer Advocacy Escalation Management

  • Act as the voice of the customer to Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, ensuring feedback loops are well structured.
  • Drive executive sponsorship and periodic technical reviews with key accounts.

Cross-functional Alignment

  • Work closely with Sales, Support, CS Ops, Professional Services, and Product to deliver scalable and consistent customer outcomes.
  • Partner with Sales leadership on customer programs, marketing initiatives and community/company events to drive adoption and expansion.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

  • 5+ years in Technical Account Management, Customer Success, SE/product consulting, or Professional Services with tech/B2B SaaS; 2+ years people management.
  • Demonstrated success building low-touch/use triggered programs in SaaS at scale.
  • Deep observability expertise—Grafana stack experience is a plus.
  • Strong analytical fluency: Salesforce, Gainsight (or equivalent CS platforms), data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau), usage telemetry.
  • Excellent written, presentation, and stakeholder alignment skills across technical and executive levels.

Bonus Points For:

  • Data‑Obsessed Programmatic: You love KPIs, dashboards, and building scalable low-touch motions grounded in usage trends.
  • Technically Fluent Consultative: Comfortable discussing observability architecture, Kubernetes, telemetry stacks (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo), APIs, and integrations.
  • Leader of Technical Talent: Skilled mentor and coach, elevating your team’s technical craftsmanship and scaled operational excellence.
  • Operational Driver with a Bias for Action: Expert in defining triggers, running experiments, iterating on programs, and continuously improving customer outcomes.
  • You love solving technical challenges and thrive on bringing creative solutions to our customers

In the US, the OTE range for this role is $237,000 - $278,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range benefits at the beginning of the process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

  • 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
  • Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
  • Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
  • Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
  • Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
  • Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
  • Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
  • Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
  • Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
  • In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
  • Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.

Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.

For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy.

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Query, visualize, alert on, and understand your data no matter where it’s stored. With Grafana you can create, explore, and share all of your data through beautiful, flexible dashboards.

We work in a big tent where everyone is welcome. Come on in.

OK, it’s not an actual big tent, but it is one of our core philosophies.

We know that data has incredible power to solve complex problems, transform business, drive innovation, and ultimately make the world a better place. The unfortunate reality is that the data we need often lives all over the place in disparate systems across geos, platforms, servers, and more. It’s our mission as Grafanistas to unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower our users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.

Building a powerful product takes a village — from engineering to customer success to people operations and beyond. What’s your calling?

What we value

Shared values are foundational to culture. They empower us, as both individuals and teams, to have an impact and achieve our mission, because we’re aligned on what’s really important to us. We’ve established these guiding principles to drive independent thinking, thoughtful decision-making, and result-oriented action that stays true to our mission.

Share openly and default to transparency

We share anything and everything we can — some might even call us over-sharers, and we’re OK with that. We want to ensure that Grafanistas have all the context they need to make smart, informed decisions in their daily work.

Respectfully empowered

We encourage our team members to be autonomous — this is essential for a distributed team. Freedom and empowerment are built on respect for one’s commitments and colleagues. We default to action. We value team members who take the initiative to get things done, ask when they need help, and dive into the job with both feet.

OSS is in our DNA

We have a big tent philosophy. We work with competitors and value interoperability. Decisions at Grafana are made with the long-term health of the company in mind. We aren’t distracted by short-term gains. We understand that our commercial success as a company is linked to our users’ success with our software.

We keep our commitments

We care about the say/do ratio, and for all our math friends out there, we like to see a good 1:1 ratio here. We do what we promise for each other, customers, and users, and we are personally accountable for delivering on our commitments. We dislike indecision: An imperfect or controversial decision is better than no decision. Debates are won with data and reason, not job titles.

Seek diverse perspectives

Each and every one of us prioritizes an open and inclusive culture at Grafana Labs, and we strive to bring diverse perspectives to the table to come up with the best ideas. We’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay, and to do their best work. We believe this will create the best results: Diversity drives innovation, and that innovation drives our success.

Don’t let perfect get in the way of great

We should all aim to do our best, but if perfection is the goal, we’ll probably never produce anything. Instead, we determine requirements to make something great and work hard to hit them. What can be squeaked out as an MVP at 60%? What actually needs to be done closer to 90%? From there, we iterate. This requires more than talent to succeed; it requires grit and determination. We want to get a great product out to our customers now and continue to iterate on it with fresh ideas and innovation. We’re a startup; we’re far from perfect. Get super comfortable with things not being perfect, while continuing to hold high standards for yourself and the team.

Help each other thrive

Supporting each other, our users, and our customers is a priority and core part of what we do. We pitch in where needed and do what it takes to get things done, even if it isn’t necessarily our job to do so. We win together, as one global team.

Employee benefits

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Grafana Shutdown Days

Grafana Labs offers additional shutdown days throughout the year for an extra breather, enhancing work-life balance.

Wellbeing Resource Group

Grafana Labs organizes sessions with fellow team members and external trainers to promote mindfulness and well-being.

Parental & Sick Leave

Grafana Labs provides parental leave and sick leave, supporting team members during important life events and personal health needs.

Tech Choice

Grafana Labs empowers employees to choose their own laptop and accessories required for the job, with a tech refresh every two years.

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