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# Strategic Channel Manager | India | Remote | Expressions Of Interest at Grafana Labs

- **Company:** Grafana Labs
- **Location:** India
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6221032004

## Job description

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](http://grafana.com) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/) and [X](https://twitter.com/grafana).

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 is looking for a Channel Manager to develop, execute and evolve our partner go-to-market strategy in India. You will work closely with Sales, Solution Engineering, Marketing, Operations and the leadership team to align sales and go-to-market efforts with our product, technical and sales development efforts. Your key task is to deliver immediate and future partner-sourced revenue growth, working primarily with Grafana's regional Systems Integrators and Value-Added Resellers.

As our first dedicated channel hire in India, you will build an emerging partner community and shape the role, the strategy and the playbook inside a rapidly growing company where partners are a core part of go-to-market.

This is NOT a programmatic channel and distribution role. This IS a sales-focused channel role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is comfortable owning a partner-sourced revenue number, and can build on a fast-growing channel business.

What You'll Be Doing:

- Develop executive-level relationships with focus partners in India
- Own partner opportunity identification and deal acceleration to drive revenue targets
- Lead the identification, activation and development of regional partners
- Develop partner capabilities, co-sell motions and brand awareness initiatives
- Establish strong executive relationships to create partnership business plans
- Work with leadership to manage pipeline and revenue commitments
- Work across Grafana Labs on message alignment, operational coordination and evangelism of the partner strategy and program

What Makes You a Great Fit:

- 7+ years of experience in channel sales or sales (selling with partners)
- Experience selling SaaS (open source technology is a plus), and familiarity with BEPIC and MEDDPICC selling methodologies
- A demonstrated history of consistent goal achievement at high-growth startups
- A consultative sales approach, with the goal of keeping customer, partner and community satisfaction exceptionally high
- Proven experience developing a high-performing channel strategy for SaaS vendors new to the India market

Bonus Points For:

- Running low-touch deal cycles with partners independently of the direct sales team
- A demonstrated ability to increase partner-sourced revenue (NACV) contribution to India's overall revenue.

Compensation & Rewards:

In India, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range will apply for this role.  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. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation 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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For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our [privacy policy](https://grafana.com/legal/applicant-and-candidate-privacy-policy/).

## About Grafana Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Grafana Labs provides the leading open-source observability platform and a fully managed cloud service, enabling organizations to monitor, visualize, and analyze their metrics, logs, traces, and more.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series H – $1.1B total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Software Development / Observability & Monitoring
- **Target Customers**: B2B, primarily mid-market to large enterprises (7,000+ customers including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Salesforce) and SMBs via free tier
- **Mission**: “Shape the future of observability” – build, sell, and scale technology that matters, rooted in open source, transparency, and customer success

## Products & Services
- **Grafana (Open Source)**: The industry-standard dashboarding and visualization tool for metrics, logs, and traces.
- **Grafana Cloud**: Fully managed observability SaaS stack combining metrics (Mimir), logs (Loki), traces (Tempo), incident response (OnCall), synthetic monitoring, and load testing (k6).
- **Grafana Enterprise**: Self-managed edition with enterprise-grade features, security, and support.
- **Grafana OnCall**: Incident management and alerting workflow tool.
- **Grafana Faro**: Frontend observability for web applications.
- **k6**: Open-source load testing tool integrated into the observability pipeline.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (last known Series H in 2022; total funding $1.1B)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $270M (LinkedIn estimate, 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, Lead Edge Capital
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 1,600+ employees across 40+ countries (LinkedIn: 1,431, +16.6% YoY)
  - 25M+ users worldwide
  - Named a **Leader** in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms – positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision
  - Major enterprise logos: Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Salesforce

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Foundation**: Grafana is the de facto standard for dashboards; huge community (25M+ users) drives adoption and ecosystem.
- **Composable Observability Stack**: Best-of-breed components (Loki, Tempo, Mimir, OnCall) that are tightly integrated but can be used independently.
- **Vendor‑Neutral Architecture**: Works with any data source (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, cloud providers, etc.), reducing lock-in.
- **Remote-First Culture**: 100% remote, global team – enables hiring top talent anywhere and builds a deeply distributed, resilient organization.

## Strategic Focus
- **Full-Stack Observability for the “Agentic Era”**: Expanding from traditional monitoring to cover AI/LLM workloads, real‑time decision systems, and incident management.
- **Simplify SaaS Economics**: CEO Raj Dutt emphasizes reimagining pricing and scalability to reduce complexity for customers.
- **Continued Open-Source Innovation**: Ship constantly, release early and often, and maintain community leadership.
- **Enterprise Scale**: Grow enterprise sales and partner ecosystem (cloud providers, system integrators) while retaining developer‑first DNA.

## Why Work Here
- **100% Remote**: “We hold ourselves responsible for outcomes not hours or location.” $175/month co‑working space reimbursement.
- **Generous Time Off**: 30 days paid vacation + national holidays + sick leave + company shutdown days.
- **Global Benefits**: Health coverage/stipends in US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Australia, India, Singapore. Retirement plan contributions (multi‑country). Paid parental leave.
- **Growth & Development**: $1,500 annual learning stipend, thousands of on‑demand courses, conference/training support.
- **Empowered Culture**: Top 5% employee engagement score (2025). Principles: “Default to transparency,” “Seek diverse perspectives,” “Help each other thrive.” Employees choose their own laptop/tech stack, refreshed every 3 years.
- **Mindfulness & Support**: Free Calm subscription; confidential Employee Assistance Program (24/7/365).
- **Interview Process**: Practical, transparent – recruiter chat, hiring manager conversations, role‑relevant challenge (no trick questions), and values alignment. Designed to be respectful of your time.

## Sources
1. [Grafana Careers Page](https://grafana.com/careers/)
2. [Grafana Homepage](https://grafana.com/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs)
4. [Grafana Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs)

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