Staff Technical Programme Manager, Grafana Labs
R&D Division
£89-106k
+ Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
Open & composable observability platform
Job no longer available
Open & composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£89-106k
+ Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
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
- 6+ years of experience as a program manager, or an engineering leader with deeply developed program management skills
- Proven track records of successfully delivering complex, multi-year technical programs spanning multiple engineering teams
- Experience managing programs in highly distributed, remote-first organizations
- Strong communication skills in multiple forms across all levels of the organization
- Ability to work asynchronously and with people from diverse backgrounds
- Ability to consider the balance between short and long term solutions and their impacts, and help drive an effective decision
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring infrastructure, ideally with Grafana products
- Experience with infrastructure deployment across different cloud providers
What the job involves
- We are seeking an exceptional Staff Technical Program Manager to join the Grafana Labs R&D team
- This senior-level individual will lead and orchestrate the delivery of complex, multi-year initiatives that span dozens of engineering teams across our entire engineering organization
- You will serve as the strategic leader for cross-cutting programs that shape the future of Grafana ecosystem
- Provide cross-organizational leadership, effectively translating strategic objectives into actionable programs with clear timelines and measurable outcomes by collaborating with Engineering, Product, Go-to-Market and external partner teams
- Lead end-to-end technical programs and large-scale initiatives from inception to delivery across Grafana’s platform and open-source ecosystem
- Serve as the core spokesperson for large-scale programs and communicate with all levels of the company and organization
- Document and regularly publish plans, progress reports, and retrospective analyses for the initiatives
- Identify and mitigate risks and interdependencies across complex, multi-team initiatives to ensure programs maintain forward momentum toward agreed outcomes
- Facilitate continuous improvement in collaboration with Engineering and Product Management leaders
Application process
- 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
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 creates customizable observability platforms for its clients, to enhance the efficiency of this process. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. The company boasts over 25 million users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000 and 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 solutions on a monthly subscription. The company's continues to improve to meet the evolving needs of its users, enhancing functionality with each iteration. It also fosters 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
(CEO & Co-Founder)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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