[Hiring] Director, Product Management - Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingest @Grafana Labs

Role Description

As a Director on the Grafana Labs Product Management team, you’ll develop vision and strategy for a broad product domain, align multiple teams around clear priorities, and ensure product decisions support customer outcomes and Grafana Labs’ business objectives. You’ll own the roadmap, deeply understand customers and the market, and communicate product direction, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly to customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners.

Product Managers work closely with Engineering, Design, Technical Writing, Developer Advocacy, Analytics, Product Marketing, and GTM to build and ship products that meet the needs of our very technical customer base. This includes:

• Shaping the product story and positioning
• Supporting launch and field enablement
• Helping define pricing and packaging models

Grafana Labs is building for an AI-first world, and Product Management is accountable for helping define what that means for our products, customers, and the observability industry at-large. We expect PM leaders to actively build fluency with AI tools and workflows, identify where AI can create meaningful customer value, and think strategically about how our products should evolve as users increasingly work with and through AI systems.

As the Director of Product for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion, you will lead the product strategy for the systems and experiences that help customers generate, collect, transform, and ingest telemetry data into Grafana Cloud, then make that data available for fast, reliable, cost-effective querying. This product domain spans the full telemetry journey:

• Telemetry generation and instrumentation
• Collection
• Transformation
• Ingestion
• Querying

This includes:

• OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation libraries
• Grafana Beyla
• The OpenTelemetry Collector
• Grafana Alloy
• Adaptive Telemetry
• Grafana Labs’ telemetry databases - Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope

This role will shape one of the most foundational parts of Grafana Cloud: how customers send us data, how we help make that data usable, and how we turn this foundation into a differentiated product experience.

You will manage a team of Product Managers and be accountable for helping them set clear strategy, make strong prioritization decisions, work effectively with their cross-functional partners, and grow in their careers.

Qualifications

• Significant Product Management experience, including leading product strategy across multiple teams, product areas, or complex technical workflows
• Experience directly managing Product Managers, including coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, and career development
• Strong technical fluency in infrastructure, cloud platforms, observability, telemetry, data pipelines, high scale databases, or other developer/infrastructure product domains
• Strong product instincts around AI, including the ability to identify where AI can create meaningful customer value in technical products used by developers, operators, SREs, platform teams, or infrastructure teams
• Strong customer empathy and strategic judgment
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
• The ability to create clarity in ambiguity
• A BS/BA in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Requirements

• Build strong relationships with customers and prospects, especially technical buyers and observability practitioners
• Help GTM teams understand product differentiation, customer value, roadmap direction, AI relevance, and market positioning
• Coach and develop Product Managers
• Create a high-accountability, high-trust environment

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization
• Transparent Communication
• Innovation-Driven
• Open Source Roots
• Empowered Teams
• Career Growth Pathways
• Approachable Leadership
• Passionate People
• In-Person onboarding
• Balance is Key