[Remote] Director, Product Management - Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingest | US | Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is seeking a Director of Product Management for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion. In this role, you will develop vision and strategy for the product domain, align teams around priorities, and ensure product decisions support customer outcomes and business objectives.ResponsibilitiesDevelop and own the product vision and strategy for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion as a core platform capability for Grafana CloudPartner closely with senior R&D leaders to align product and technical strategy across teams, make clear tradeoffs, and ensure the roadmap balances customer value, platform leverage, operational excellence, and business impactUse customer research, product analytics, competitive insight, and business context to identify the highest-impact problems to solveDefine how AI should influence this domain, including how it can help customers instrument applications, configure collection, transform telemetry, control cost, improve data quality, query more efficiently, and troubleshoot ingestion issues more intelligentlyBuild strong relationships with customers and prospects, especially technical buyers and observability practitionersHelp GTM teams understand product differentiation, customer value, roadmap direction, AI relevance, and market positioningCoach and develop Product Managers, helping them strengthen their product judgment, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, and ability to drive high-quality outcomes with their cross-functional teamsCreate a high-accountability, high-trust environment where PMs and cross-functional teams understand what matters, why it matters, and how their work contributes to Grafana Labs’ successSkillsSignificant Product Management experience, including leading product strategy across multiple teams, product areas, or complex technical workflowsExperience directly managing Product Managers, including coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, and career developmentStrong technical fluency in infrastructure, cloud platforms, observability, telemetry, data pipelines, high scale databases, or other developer/infrastructure product domainsStrong product instincts around AI, including the ability to identify where AI can create meaningful customer value in technical products used by developers, operators, SREs, platform teams, or infrastructure teamsStrong customer empathy and strategic judgment, with the ability to translate complex customer problems into clear product strategy, roadmap priorities, and tradeoffsStrong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with experience influencing Engineering, Design, Technical Writing, Developer Advocacy, Analytics, Product Marketing, GTM, and executive stakeholdersThe ability to create clarity in ambiguity, help teams make progress without over-prescribing solutions, and operate effectively in a globally distributed, remote-first environmentA BS/BA in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experienceExperience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana Alloy, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo, and/or Grafana PyroscopeExperience with ETL, telemetry pipelines, large-scale data processing, or data transformation workflows, including sampling, filtering, enrichment, routing, or cost/performance optimizationExperience with high-scale databases, distributed systems, or big data platformsExperience building AI-enabled product experiences for technical users, including developers, SREs, platform engineers, or infrastructure teamsExperience with agent-facing product design, AI-assisted workflows, or how products should evolve when users increasingly delegate tasks to AI systemsExperience working at an open source or commercial open source companyExperience partnering with GTM teams on positioning, packaging, pricing, launch strategy, or field enablement for technical productsExperience leading product strategy for platform capabilities that serve multiple product lines or customer segmentsBenefitsAll of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.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.Company OverviewGrafana Labs is an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://grafana.com.