Job Specifications
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
Our Commercial Solutions Engineering team are our in-house, customer-facing product experts. The Commercial SE team enables Grafana Labs worldwide growth by educating potential and existing customers to ensure they are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos, hands-on enablement, presentations, technical evaluations and ongoing interaction. We also partner closely with our Sales team to help qualify and close opportunities. The Commercial SE team is also one of the primary routes of communication from our customers through into the Product Management and Engineering teams.
What You'll Be Doing
Joining a high growth team working together to solve technical and customer problems the right way
Partner with our Sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers
Own the technical engagement with customers and help to close high-velocity opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
Deliver product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers
Proactively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide a feedback loop on our products and the competitive landscape
Drive product conversations based on need and problems learned during customer interactions
Work with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement material
What Makes You a Great Fit
We are not necessarily looking for people with previous solutions/sales engineering experience! We are building a team with diverse experiences and backgrounds so if you are up for a challenge and looking to make a pivot in your career, we’d love to hear from you!
Your job duties will be varied and complex and will require strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership
We are a remote-first company so you would need to learn to work and collaborate with an international team
You will need first class written and oral communication skills to collaborate with our remote-first internal teams and with our worldwide customers. You will need to be able to skillfully articulate our value proposition and the technical advantages of our products
You will love solving technical challenges and thrive on bringing creative solutions to our customers
You should have a technical mindset and a desire to grow technically. Great candidates may be a recent grad of a coding bootcamp or have previous post-sales or engineering experience–we are excited to see what unique experiences and skill sets you bring to the table!
You are self-motivated, initiative, creative, and maybe you’ve already done a brave thing or two in your life!
Bonus Points For
Experience with Open Source technologies, or in the Metrics/Monitoring space is an advantage
Experience with sales methodologies like MEDD(P)ICC is a plus
Compensation & Rewards
In the UK, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is £96,000 - £115,000. 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
About the Company
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are 5,000+ Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and 25M+ Grafana users around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies achieve their observability goals with the LGTM Stack, which features scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data...
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