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.
This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the US and Canada (East Coast US/Canada preferred, open to other time zones for exceptional candidates).
The Opportunity:
As a Staff Product Designer at Grafana Labs, you will join a growing Product Design organization of more than 25 designers, researchers, engineers, and design leaders distributed across four continents. You will work within a 100% remote R&D organization, so strong, proactive remote communication, collaboration, facilitation, and relationship building skills will be essential to your success.
Your primary focus will be to design practical and effective user experiences for Grafana’s Incident Response & Management (IRM) solutions. These products make it easy for teams of engineers, SREs, and their agents to detect, respond to, and learn from incidents with minimal toil, across a variety of touchpoints including desktop and mobile web, native mobile, Slack, Teams, MCP integrations, and agentic harnesses like Claude Code and Codex.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Work with peers and leaders across engineering, product management, technical writing, go-to-market, and product design to iterate on and improve our products
- Document user needs and pain points, design directions, trade-offs, and detailed designs using a variety of product design and visual communication tools, including agentic tooling such as Figma Make, Cursor, and Claude Code where it adds value to your practice
- Work with researchers, cross-functional collaborators, and lead customers such as the members of our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) and Design Partnership Program (DPP) to plan and execute formative and evaluative research initiatives
- Provide pragmatic, cohesive, and highly scalable design solutions that strike the appropriate balance between addressing business, customer, and user needs
Over time, you will develop deep expertise in your product area and the associated customer and user personas, use cases, and workflows. This will enable you to make a meaningful impact on the user experience your product surface delivers to Grafana customers, as well as our internal engineering teams (yes, we use our own tools!).
Simultaneously, you will contribute to the evolution of the Product Design team at Grafana by coaching and mentoring other designers, collaborating on team internal initiatives, and helping evolve new ways of working, learning, and having fun together.
You will help scale our team’s impact on our customers, users, and business and work with the rest of the Product Design function to bring Grafana Labs’ products into the new age of agentic workflows using the power of our collective skills, customer and user empathy, conviction, and taste.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- Experience designing for developers, SREs, and other highly technical users
- A portfolio of well-articulated design work that moved the needle on specific business goals, metrics, or KPIs for complex and data-rich dev tooling and/or enterprise SaaS products
- Ability to make design decisions that appropriately balance business goals, product priorities, customer feedback, research insights, and technical considerations
- Ability to deliver pragmatic, cohesive, and scalable design solutions in a fast-paced environment where industry standards are constantly evolving
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple locations and time-zones to iteratively ship and evolve products while keeping the end design vision in mind
- Experience working in a fully-remote, fast-paced environment where you are expected to share openly, default to transparency, and embrace your autonomy
- A deep personal desire to seek diverse perspectives, aim for progress over perfection, follow through on commitments, support your peers, and mentor new hires
Bonus Points For:
- Experience designing developer or SRE tools for critical cloud infrastructure, security, or other high-stress use cases and usage scenarios
- Experience designing cross-platform experiences for developer tools across touchpoints including web, desktop, mobile, CLI, API and MCP integrations, and agentic harnesses
- An understanding of incident response scenarios / practices related to observability, cloud infrastructure, database monitoring, cyber security, or similar domains
When you apply, please:
- Provide an example of a successful software product that addresses incident response management or similar use cases, and briefly explain what you believe makes it effective
Compensation & Rewards:
In the US, the base compensation range for this role is $162,00 - $202,000. 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.
*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
- Experience designing for developers, SREs, and other highly technical users
- A portfolio of well-articulated design work that moved business metrics for complex, data-rich dev tooling or enterprise SaaS
- Ability to make design decisions balancing business goals, customer feedback, research insights, and technical constraints
- Experience delivering pragmatic, cohesive, and scalable design solutions in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and multiple time zones in a fully remote environment
- Experience using product design and visual communication tools, including agentic tooling (Figma Make, Cursor, Claude Code)
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or contributing to the growth of other designers
- Experience designing developer or SRE tools for critical cloud infrastructure, security, or other high-stress use cases
- Experience designing cross-platform experiences across web, desktop, mobile, CLI, API, MCP integrations, and agentic harnesses
- Understanding of incident response scenarios/practices related to observability, cloud infrastructure, database monitoring, or cybersecurity
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.
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.
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