Senior Director of Solutions Engineering, Grafana Labs
$318-381k
+ Equity & Bonus
The open and composable observability platform
Job no longer available
The open and composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$318-381k
+ Equity & Bonus
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
- Our ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about getting personally involved and helping to drive opportunities alongside the VP of Sales
- Experience of scaling from $250m ARR to $1B ARR+
- Experience scaling teams to over 100+ employees
- Proven success working in a fast-paced, high growth startup environment
- Experience working in open source, developer-centric GTM motions, or monitoring observability
- Extensive experience with complex, enterprise sales
- Located in USA
What the job involves
- As the Senior Director, Solutions Engineering USA for Grafana Labs, you will be responsible for all aspects of building and managing a global team of high-performing Solution Engineers, the technical counterparts to our sales teams
- More specifically, you will be asked to: Be a cultural flag carrier for the organization and embody what strong partnership and collaboration looks like across AE and SE roles, as well with other teams and functions
- In close partnership with sales, grow the SE organization to 150+ and ensure we are prepared to scale the SE org alongside the introduction and growth of multiple products, industries, segments, and GTM motions
- Evolve repeatable processes, playbooks, job architectures, enablement, and other programs needed to achieve this scale and increase win rates
- Be a thought leader - internally and externally - and scale thought leadership across the team and the organization
- Translate thought leadership into action with sales and customer experience to ensure that feedback from the field is making its way into the product and GTM strategy
- Culture carrier who values the team over the individual and values; getting to the right answer is more important than being right
- Help to drive and advise on key opportunities alongside the VP of Sales
- Defaults to teamwork and collaboration; strong cross-functional relationship builder
- Sensitivity and appreciation for open source and the bottom up motion
- Willing, excited, and able to engage with customers strategically
- Flexible, but not afraid of a healthy debate -- brings a strong point of view, but open to considering alternatives
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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