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.
Grafana’s GTM organization is looking for a Senior Channel Strategy & Operations Manager. Reporting to our Senior Director of Strategy & Planning, you will work with a cross-functional team of stakeholders to define growth strategies, provide insights to business performance, and build systems & processes to accelerate Grafana’s channel business. This is a foundational role that will partner directly with our VP of Global Partnerships and GTM leadership. To be successful, you will be able to operate in an entrepreneurial, fast paced environment as you help build the structures for our future growth. You are an entrepreneurial and industrious leader who thrives collaborating with teammates that challenge you to grow every day. Your background in Sales/GTM gives you the confidence to hit the ground running to quickly add value and rigor to Grafana’s field teams. You carefully balance the ability to put a hard technical problem under a microscope, without losing sight of the bigger picture required to effectively communicate with stakeholders. You prioritize those things that are important and urgent (instead of just doing more).
What You’ll Be Doing- Defining partner route to market categories and associated requirements and benefits
- Driving our development funds program and other financial incentives such as discounts and opportunity registration programs
- Creating programs that support channel go-to-market efforts including accreditations, specializations, competencies, and segmentation
- Architect pipeline acceleration programs, such as deal registration, rebates, and other performance-based rewards
- Lead annual strategy, business plan development, and quota/territory planning with each of our Partner leaders.
- Structure and lead key strategic initiatives, establish and track KPIs, and develop best practices.
- Provide innovative recommendations for partner business planning, reporting, scorecards, and forecasting processes.
- Gather and synthesize relevant data, lead analyses and develop final recommendations around strategic and operational partner initiatives.
- Manage weekly cadence of partner sales forecasting, lead generation, reporting, and analytics.
- Develop formal reporting packages for partner and partner sales effectiveness and productivity. Conduct metrics reviews with partner leaders and supporting teams.
- 5+ years of experience leading the design and effectiveness of the end-to-end partner programs (strategies, frameworks, processes, planning, procedures, and policies)
- Deep understanding of SaaS licensing models
- Foundational knowledge of various partner selling motions (i.e. ISV, MSP, OEM, Resell, Disti, etc).
- Experience with Cloud Marketplaces (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Demonstrated track record of strategic thinking and analysis--seeing over the horizon to identify opportunities, envision models, and strategic paths to capture opportunities, as well as spot emerging risks
- Experience in a sales or GTM organization, and familiarity with common sales methodologies (MEDDPICC or MEDDIC)
- Excellent communication skills with executive audiences - explain “what it is”, “why it matters,” and “what should we do” in terms of your data and analysis
- High comfort with ambiguity. You identify the right priorities and put in the hard work without need for external motivation
- You think critically and creatively, continually reorienting to obstacles to define a better way to achieve our goals.
- Previous experience in open source
- Experience with AWS partner network processes, including AWS Marketplace transactions
- Experience with partner portal technologies (SFDC Partner Community, Impartner, Crossbeam etc.)
- Experience with Grafana, Tableau or other analysis/BI tools.
- Familiarity with Salesforce CPQ, Zuora, or other CPQ / Q2C / subscription management tools.
In the US, the OTE range for this role is $178,503 - $215,000. 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: 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.
#LI-Remote
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in partner programs and operations
- Deep understanding of SaaS licensing models
- Experience with cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Excellent communication skills with executive audiences
- Experience in sales or GTM organization
- Bonus: Familiarity with Salesforce CPQ or subscription management tools
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
Grafana Labs Insights
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.
Gallery
