Grafana Labs is looking for a Education Architect who is passionate about driving successful business outcomes for our customers in the observability space. You will sit within Grafana’s Professional Services department and drive enablement of each of our Grafana Products, both virtually, as well as through lab and computer-based training. You influence customer adoption that helps realize customer business objectives. You will build processes and tooling for training and enablement to ensure we are scaling our business effectively, standardizing our training assets, and continuously improving our delivery.
This position will also have a large role in shaping how customer training is scoped, created, and delivered at Grafana Labs. You will be invaluable as the voice of the customer for our curriculum developers, as well as a contributor to the Sales team, the Customer Success Managers (CSM’s), and the rest of Grafana Labs.
The ideal candidate for this role is an experienced trainer or solutions engineer/architect with a background in observability/monitoring or a related technology space. You will need to be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and enjoy continuously learning and teaching.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with customers to define and scope their training needs
- Plan and develop computer based training and hands-on labs for training and workshops. Use your knowledge of the Grafana stack to expand the capabilities of our hands-on exercise environments.
- Deliver online and in-person sessions on the entire Grafana stack of technologies. You will also assist our curriculum development team with reviewing educational materials and our Professional Services team in building the right sandbox environments for our customers to learn in.
- Plan schedules for customer training engagements, including recruiting SMEs from the Professional Services or Sales Engineering teams as needed for advanced topics
- Continuously improve training content to ensure accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness for the intended audience
- Provide feedback and suggestions for new or revised content from customer sessions, our community forums, and our community Slack
- Continuously grow your knowledge of the Grafana stack of technologies
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience working directly with customers as either a trainer or a solutions engineer/architect, including training customers on technical software, scoping customer needs, and planning training schedules
- Be experienced with a variety of delivery methods, including VILT, in-person training, and open-ended Q&A sessions
- Excellent presentation and writing skills and ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts
- Strong ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Experience with prioritizing and managing your own projects in order to meet tight deadlines
- Experience as an SRE, Cloud Architect, DevOps engineer, or system administrator
- Experience in using or administering the Grafana technology stack a plus
- Familiarity with metrics, monitoring, and/or observability technology a plus
In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.
About Grafana Labs: 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).
Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
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What We Do
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 5,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 20 million users of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with the LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise offerings, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security.
Why Work With Us
Clear communication is vital in a remote-first company. We hold weekly team updates, monthly all-hands calls, co-located offsites, and annual events. We've enhanced hiring, onboarding, and training with a learning management tool and quarterly bootcamps. We offer 30 vacation days plus local holidays, with equal benefits for all employees globally.
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