Manager of Technical Support, Grafana Labs
$125-150k
+ Bonus for eligible roles + Equity
The open and composable observability platform
Job no longer available
The open and composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$125-150k
+ Bonus for eligible roles + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has experience leading front-line technical support teams, with a strong focus on customer service and technical problem-solving
- You should have a passion for managing and developing people, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth
- 2-6 years of experience managing a technical support team
- Experience working with a variety of customers, including technical users and business stakeholders
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach and mentor employees
- Excellent decision-making skills in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to learn and develop expertise in our products to become a trusted advisor to customers
- Strong organizational and process-oriented mindset
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Experience tracking and managing support performance metrics
- Familiarity with support ticketing systems like Zendesk or similar tools
- Knowledge of Observability, DevOps, logs, metrics, tracing, Kubernetes, or enterprise open-source technology is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Manager of Technical Support, you and your team will be responsible for delivering high-quality support to our customers, ensuring they have the best possible experience with Grafana Labs
- Building strong relationships with customers and internal teams is key to success in this role
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, and Product Development to ensure customer needs are met while aligning with business goals
- Manage a US-based technical support team while working closely with global counterparts to ensure efficiency and consistency in customer support
- Develop team skills, provide coaching, and create enablement plans for ongoing growth and development
- Partner with Sales and Operations to ensure support readiness and effectiveness
- Work closely with the Product team to provide customer insights that drive product improvements
- Hire, develop, and mentor support team members, fostering a culture of collaboration and customer-centric support
- Monitor and manage key support metrics to ensure high performance and customer satisfaction
- Promote a positive, innovative, and engaging team environment
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, Grafana boasts over 25M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000, including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raj Dutt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering experience at PalVision and iiNet.
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