Job Description
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies – including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay – manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
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:
This is an exciting opportunity to join our already strong People Business Partnering function at Grafana Labs. You will report to our Senior Manager of People Business Partnering and form a critical part of our GTM Business Partnering team. You will support the design, implementation and drive of our People strategy, all while helping us maintain our culture as we scale.
Our ideal candidate will be able to comfortably span both strategic planning and cross-functional partnerships with our people managers on their day to day needs and business goals. You will find yourself diving into highly tactical discussions at times and you won’t be afraid to roll your sleeves up when it relates to our People team initiatives. If you love variety, a broad scope, and have a passion to work with both experienced and new people managers to drive real change in the business, this role may be for you.
The responsibilities listed below are a sampling of the projects you would help to support and lead. You will have a real opportunity to create and design strategic processes to differentiate the People function as we continue to be a great place to work.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- You will partner directly with our GTM management and leadership teams building trusted advisor status with key stakeholders
- You will identify needs, gaps, and opportunities within current processes and policies as well as partner to ensure sustainable and scalable processes are created
- You will support the People Team by acting as the expert for your function surrounding all projects and initiatives
- You will support new and experienced people managers across the GTM function to ensure we build a strong and consistent approach to people management
- You will partner with our People Team to deliver our annual processes surrounding talent and performance, workforce management, attrition and retention, compensation analysis and learning & development initiatives
- You will have the professional knowledge to actively contribute to the enhancement and delivery of these processes, as well as provide your perspective on how to improve Grafana initiatives on an ongoing basis
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- You have experience partnering with GTM management teams
- You enjoy wearing many hats and are able to be both a strategic partner as well as tactical support when needed
- You are process oriented and enjoy creating structure where there may be ambiguity and are skilled at finding creative solutions to non-obvious problems
- You will handle a wide range of complex and highly sensitive employee issues and will maintain confidentiality at all levels of the organisation
- You are a people-person and problem solver at heart - you are able to take your passion for helping others and identifying problems to ultimately define solutions and drive impact all via a high say/do ratio
- You appreciate working in a team to manage competing priorities and use your initiative and creative problem solving to confidently manage decision-making
- You will be have a customer service approach to your role ensuring that everyone, locally and internationally, views you as a “go to” person for your business and function
Bonus Points For:
- Ideally you have experience of working remotely and internationally coordinating with team members globally and understand the challenges and opportunities of remote work and communication
- You have experience in a high-growth scaling environment
Compensation & Rewards:
In the United Kingdom, the base compensation range for this role is £72,000 - £90,000. 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: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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