About the role

Director of Product Management at Grafana Labs developing and owning product vision for Data Collection and Transformation. Leading teams and ensuring strategy aligns with customer needs and business objectives.

Responsibilities

Develop and own the product vision and strategy for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion as a core platform capability for Grafana Cloud
Partner closely with senior R&D leaders to align product and technical strategy across teams, make clear tradeoffs, and ensure the roadmap balances customer value, platform leverage, operational excellence, and business impact
Use customer research, product analytics, competitive insight, and business context to identify the highest-impact problems to solve
Define how AI should influence this domain, including how it can help customers instrument applications, configure collection, transform telemetry, control cost, improve data quality, query more efficiently, and troubleshoot ingestion issues more intelligently
Build strong relationships with customers and prospects, especially technical buyers and observability practitioners
Help GTM teams understand product differentiation, customer value, roadmap direction, AI relevance, and market positioning
Coach and develop Product Managers, helping them strengthen their product judgment, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, and ability to drive high-quality outcomes with their cross-functional teams
Create a high-accountability, high-trust environment where PMs and cross-functional teams understand what matters, why it matters, and how their work contributes to Grafana Labs’ success

Significant Product Management experience, including leading product strategy across multiple teams, product areas, or complex technical workflows
Experience directly managing Product Managers, including coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, and career development
Strong technical fluency in infrastructure, cloud platforms, observability, telemetry, data pipelines, high scale databases, or other developer/infrastructure product domains
Strong product instincts around AI, including the ability to identify where AI can create meaningful customer value in technical products used by developers, operators, SREs, platform teams, or infrastructure teams
Strong customer empathy and strategic judgment, with the ability to translate complex customer problems into clear product strategy, roadmap priorities, and tradeoffs
Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with experience influencing Engineering, Design, Technical Writing, Developer Advocacy, Analytics, Product Marketing, GTM, and executive stakeholders
The ability to create clarity in ambiguity, help teams make progress without over-prescribing solutions, and operate effectively in a globally distributed, remote-first environment
A BS/BA in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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.