Manager, Solutions Architecture | East Coast | Remote

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. The Opportunity: Grafana Labs seeks a dynamic Manager for our Solutions Architects team, one who shares our enthusiasm for driving successful business outcomes in the observability domain. As a Manager of Solutions Architects, you will help lead a distinguished group of technologists, adept at leveraging Grafana products. You will collaborate directly with our key clients to deploy and enhance Grafana technologies, championing observability best practices. You will also work directly with the Professional Services leadership team to drive continuous improvement and operational rigor. This role will collaborate closely with Sales, Support, Customer Success, and Product teams to build resilient observability solutions aligned with customer and business objectives. This role involves crafting Statements of Work (SOWs), advocating for technological advancements to the Products team, resourcing and managing customer projects, driving operational scale, and managing customer escalations. What You’ll Be Doing: • As a member of the Grafana Professional Services team, you will manage a team of Solutions Architects, ensuring members are effectively utilized and driving successful customer outcomes. • Ensure team success in designing and building outcomes on the Grafana technology stack. • Build educational programs that enhance customer capabilities of the Grafana technology stack. • Advise on sales strategies that drive high adoption rates, improved renewal percentages, and ultimately increased revenue. • Build lasting customer relationships to enable them to be Grafana advocates and referenceable customers. • Balance operational management with direct technical contributions to stay close to the evolving Grafana technology stack. What Makes You a Great Fit: • 3+ years of managing a Solutions Architecture team in a related space • 5+ years design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications • 3+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, applications, and networking, or similar technologies. • 2+ years of experience in technology/software pre-sales or technical consulting • Located in CST • Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies • Presentation skills with comfort speaking to customers and executives • Experience building/maintaining observability solutions • Excellent communications and writing skills. •