Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry

Grafana Labs
Germany
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 124,571 - 149,485Function: Product ManagementExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Written communication","Verbal communication","Stakeholder influence","Cross-functional collaboration","Data-driven decision making"]

Own the end-to-end OpenTelemetry Experience in Grafana Cloud, defining the vision and cross-product roadmap from uninstrumented workloads to healthy, correctly attributed telemetry. Lead coherent, opinionated onboarding and configuration experiences across SDK instrumentation, automatic instrumentation (including Beyla/OBI) and Collector-based deployment. Identify root causes of setup failure and measure outcomes like onboarding completion, time to useful telemetry, and telemetry health—partnering with Engineering, Design, and GTM to drive adoption.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
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Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end OpenTelemetry Experience in Grafana Cloud, defining the vision and cross-product roadmap from uninstrumented workloads to healthy, correctly attributed telemetry. Lead coherent, opinionated onboarding and configuration experiences across SDK instrumentation, automatic instrumentation (including Beyla/OBI) and Collector-based deployment. Identify root causes of setup failure and measure outcomes like onboarding completion, time to useful telemetry, and telemetry health—partnering with Engineering, Design, and GTM to drive adoption.
Location: Germany
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the vision, strategy, and cross-product roadmap for the journey from uninstrumented workloads to healthy, useful telemetry in Grafana Cloud.
  • •Create coherent onboarding and configuration experiences across SDK instrumentation, automatic instrumentation, and Collector-based deployment, balancing flexibility for advanced users.
  • •Identify and eliminate leading causes of setup failure, abandonment, misconfiguration, and low-quality telemetry.
  • •Establish shared experience principles, priorities, and success criteria, using customer research and product data to measure outcomes.
  • •Partner with downstream solution teams and GTM to transition from telemetry ingestion to meaningful product activation, including product narrative and launches.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 124,571 - 149,485
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of Product Management experience delivering technically complex B2B products, ideally in developer tools, observability, infrastructure, or data platforms.
  • •Experience leading strategy and execution across multiple engineering teams or product areas without relying on direct organizational authority.
  • •Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including SDK instrumentation, OTLP, Collector pipelines, telemetry context, and semantic conventions.
  • •Experience using or building instrumentation systems, agents, telemetry collectors, configuration products, or related infrastructure.
  • •Ability to turn complex onboarding, configuration, and troubleshooting workflows into clear product experiences using customer research and product data.
Experience:5+ yearsDeveloper toolsObservabilityInfrastructureData platformsB2B
Skills:Written communicationVerbal communicationStakeholder influenceCross-functional collaborationData-driven decision making
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OpenTelemetryGrafana CloudOTLPOpenTelemetry SDKsBeylaSDK injectionClient-side OpenTelemetry CollectorsCollector pipelinesKubernetesPublic cloud

Company Brief

Grafana Labs
Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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