Overview
As Staff Product Manager for OpenTelemetry Experience, you own the end-to-end journey enabling workloads to emit healthy, actionable telemetry to Grafana Cloud. You will define a coherent onboarding and instrumentation experience across SDKs, automatic instrumentation, and collectors, guiding users and coding agents. You’ll collaborate across engineering, design, and GTM to ensure a first-class OpenTelemetry experience and measurably improve activation and telemetry quality. This role combines product leadership with AI-enabled research and ecosystem engagement to drive adoption in a global, remote team.
Leistungen / Benefits
- 100% remote
- RSUs
- 30 days annual leave with Grafana Shutdown Days
- global, flexible culture
- Transparent communication
- Open Source roots
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Define vision, strategy, and cross-product roadmap for the OpenTelemetry journey to healthy telemetry in Grafana Cloud
- Design coherent onboarding and instrumentation experiences across SDKs, automatic instrumentation, and Collector deployment
- Identify and reduce setup failure points, misconfiguration, and low-quality telemetry
- Establish shared experience principles and success criteria across teams
- Prioritize investments using customer research and product data to improve onboarding and telemetry outcomes
- Partner with downstream Grafana Cloud solution teams for a smooth telemetry-to-activation transition
- Shape product positioning, launches, and adoption programs with Product Marketing and GTM
- Collaborate with multiple orgs (Engineering, Design, Docs, DevRel, PM, GTM) to deliver a differentiated OpenTelemetry experience
- Represent Grafana in OpenTelemetry ecosystem discussions
- Apply AI tools to accelerate customer research, analyze signals, prototype experiences, and test agent-led journeys
Zentrale Anforderungen
- 5+ years of Product Management in developer tools or observability domains
- Experience leading strategy across multiple engineering teams without direct authority
- Strong OpenTelemetry knowledge (SDK instrumentation, OTLP, Collector, semantic conventions)
- Experience with instrumentation systems or related infrastructure
- Understanding of deploying software across Kubernetes, VMs, and clouds
- Ability to translate onboarding workflows into clear product experiences
- Experience using customer research and data to drive outcomes
- Excellent written and verbal communication for remote, distributed teams
- excellent communication
- ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- collaboration in global, remote teams
- OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation
- OTLP and Collector pipelines
- instrumentation systems and collectors
Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry | Germany | Remote in Leverkusen Arbeitgeber: Grafana Labs
Grafana ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der eine offene und kollaborative Kultur fördert, in der autonome, datengestützte Entscheidungen geschätzt werden. Mit einem Remote-First-Ansatz und einem globalen Team bietet das Unternehmen nicht nur 30 Tage Jahresurlaub und Equity-Boni, sondern auch die Möglichkeit, an bedeutenden AI-Projekten zu arbeiten, die einen echten Einfluss auf die Produktentwicklung haben. Mitarbeiter haben die Chance, sich kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln und ihre Fähigkeiten in einem dynamischen Umfeld auszubauen.
