Staff Product Manager at Grafana Labs - Remote Germany — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Remote-First, But Germany-Scoped: This role is explicitly limited to candidates based in Germany, meaning you'll need to be a legal resident or eligible to work there. While Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, this specific posting restricts the location to Germany — likely for payroll, compliance, or FedRAMP-adjacent regulatory reasons. Pure location-independent nomads working from Southeast Asia or Latin America would not qualify.
Schedule & Async Flexibility: Grafana Labs is known for its async-first culture built around written communication. However, as a Staff PM interfacing with US public sector customers and globally distributed engineering teams, expect some overlap with both US Eastern/Pacific time zones and European hours. This likely means occasional early-morning or evening calls if you're operating from within Germany.
Purchasing Power in Germany: At EUR 124K–149K annually, this salary is strong for Germany. Berlin's cost of living is significantly lower than cities like Zurich or London, and even Munich is more affordable at this income level. You'd have real financial flexibility living in cities like Leipzig, Hamburg, or Dresden while working remotely.
- Berlin: Comfortable lifestyle with ~EUR 2,500–3,500/month all-in expenses
- Munich: Higher cost (~EUR 3,500–4,500/month) but still very manageable
- Smaller German cities: Excellent quality of life at EUR 2,000–2,800/month
Travel Perks: In-person onboarding and likely occasional team meetups (common at Grafana Labs) suggest some paid travel. No explicit coworking stipend is mentioned, but the autonomous culture suggests budget flexibility.
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 unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives. 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.
This is a fully remote position and we're considering candidates in Germany.
About Product Management
As a Product Manager at Grafana Labs, you'll develop a vision and strategy for your product domain. You will own the experience for your product as well as its roadmap and competitive positioning, and collaborate with company leadership on setting your product's goals. You will be the primary advocate and expert in your area, with a strong ability to communicate needs, functionality, and details effectively both to external customers and internal stakeholders. The teams and people you will be interacting with will be 100% remote and globally distributed, so strong and proactive communication is essential.
Product Managers are the bridge that connects R&D to GTM. You are a facilitator who ensures the free flow of information across these teams and are expected to be technically proficient when representing our products to our customers.
The Role
As the Staff Product Manager for Enterprise Deployment Solutions, you'll own the Grafana Labs offerings that run outside our standard multi-tenant SaaS. That includes:
- Grafana Federal Cloud — for organizations that need FedRAMP-authorized observability: US federal agencies; state, local, and education (SLED) customers; and commercial companies that sell FedRAMP offerings of their own.
- Grafana Cloud Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) — which delivers the full Grafana Cloud experience while the customer pays the infrastructure bill directly to their cloud provider, saving them significantly at scale.
Your mission is to make Grafana Labs the obvious choice for organizations that can't use standard SaaS because of compliance, data, or cost-at-scale constraints. Deployment choices change the product: features that are simple in standard SaaS can be hard, expensive, or impossible in a regulated or customer-owned environment. You'll be responsible for adapting existing Grafana Cloud capabilities to these environments, deciding which features come in, which wait, and which stay out, and occasionally building something specific to BYOC or Federal Cloud. You'll also help shape which deployment models we offer next.
Along the way, you'll use AI tools daily to speed up research, analyze product signals, and develop positioning, applying strong judgment to the results.
As the Staff Product Manager for Enterprise Deployment Solutions, you will:
- Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Grafana Bring Your Own Cloud and Grafana Federal Cloud products, using product data and market research to balance customer value against engineering cost and technical constraints
- Own positioning, messaging, and differentiation for these products, including how they compare to regular Grafana Cloud, and partner with Product Marketing on launches, competitive analysis, enablement, and demand programs
- Partner with Engineering and Technical Program Management on buildouts for these environments, balancing customer timelines with engineering capacity
- Work directly with customers, prospects, and the field on strategic deals and brief partners, resellers, and analysts on our deployment options
- Partner with Security, Compliance, and Legal to work through product changes affecting our authorization or existing customer commitments
We're Excited About You Because You Have
- 5+ years of product management experience on a technical B2B product, or a technical background (software engineering, solutions architecture, SRE, or technical program management) plus a demonstrated move into product ownership
- Hands-on experience with a non-standard SaaS deployment model, such as self-managed, air-gapped, sovereign, BYOC, single-tenant, or FedRAMP/government cloud, and a firsthand understanding of how it changes the product, its operations, and its economics
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, platform software, or developer tools
- Clear product and go-to-market judgment: you've shaped what a product should be and how it's positioned and sold, not only when it ships
- Interest in working with US public sector customers and learning their needs and buying cycles (deep compliance expertise isn't required)
- Experience leading across multiple teams without direct authority, with excellent written and verbal communication in a remote, globally distributed organization
Bonus Points
- Experience selling to or building for US federal, state, or local government customers, or other highly regulated industries
- Familiarity with government or sovereign cloud frameworks such as FedRAMP, StateRAMP/GovRAMP, BSI C5, or SecNumCloud, or offerings such as AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, or GCP Sovereign Cloud
- Experience with pricing and packaging across deployment models
- Experience with observability, monitoring, or other data-intensive infrastructure products
- Experience working with resellers, systems integrators, or cloud marketplace partners
- Familiarity with open source software or commercial open source companies
Compensation
In Germany, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 124,571 – EUR 149,485. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market's defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You'll Thrive at Grafana Labs
- 100% Remote, Global Culture – As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person Onboarding – We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new 'Grafanistas' to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key – We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.
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