Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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.
We're looking for a strategic finance leader to partner with GTM executives and help shape the future of the Finance & Strategy organization. This role combines financial leadership, business partnership, data-driven decision making, and finance transformation to improve business outcomes and scale the organization.
This is a senior individual contributor role — you'll lead through influence and expertise rather than direct reports. It reports to the Senior Director, GTM Finance & Strategy.
What You’ll Be Doing:- Partner with GTM leadership to translate business strategy into financial plans, investment decisions, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead annual planning, forecasting, long-range planning, and driver-based financial models across GTM.
- Deliver actionable financial insights, scenario analysis, and executive recommendations that influence strategic decisions.
- Modernize Finance through AI, automation, and scalable planning processes that improve speed, quality, and forecast accuracy.
- Partner with Data & Analytics to improve financial metrics, data quality, dashboards, and self-service reporting.
- Drive strategic investment analysis, resource allocation, and performance management across the business.
- Support complex commercial decisions and strategic initiatives through financial modeling and cross-functional partnership.
- Continuously improve finance processes, reporting, and operating leverage through technology and automation.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Strategy, FP&A, or Corporate Finance within high-growth SaaS or technology companies.
- Proven experience partnering with executive leadership to influence strategic business decisions.
- Strong financial modeling, planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis expertise.
- Experience building scalable finance processes and improving operational efficiency through automation.
- Passion for leveraging AI, automation, and modern technologies to transform Finance.
- Strong understanding of SaaS business models and key metrics, including ARR, NRR, GRR, CAC, and LTV.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and business judgment with the ability to simplify complex decisions.
- Strong communication and executive storytelling skills with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
- Experience collaborating across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Operations, and Data teams in a fast-paced environment.
- High integrity, ownership, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset.
In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is $185,000 - $220,000. 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.
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*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: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation 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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years progressive experience in Finance, Strategy, FP&A, or Corporate Finance within high-growth SaaS or technology companies.
- Proven experience partnering with executive leadership to influence strategic business decisions.
- Strong financial modeling, planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis expertise.
- Experience building scalable finance processes and improving operational efficiency through automation.
- Passion for leveraging AI, automation, and modern technologies to transform Finance.
- Strong understanding of SaaS business models and key metrics (ARR, NRR, GRR, CAC, LTV).
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and business judgment with ability to simplify complex decisions.
- Strong communication and executive storytelling skills with ability to influence at all levels.
- Experience collaborating across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Operations, and Data teams.
- High integrity, ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement mindset.
Grafana Labs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Grafana Labs and has not been reviewed or approved by Grafana Labs.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options with low deductibles in the US and local equivalents in other countries. Mental health support is also included, alongside wellness support that can be applied to therapy or ergonomic needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as notably generous, including 30 days of paid vacation plus holidays and additional shutdown days. Parental leave and sick leave are also part of the time-off package, supporting broader work-life needs.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is presented as a standard component of compensation, with RSUs included across roles to provide ownership in company outcomes. The package framing emphasizes total compensation that combines base pay with equity and, in some cases, bonuses.
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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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