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Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry | Sweden | Remote

Grafana Labs
Location
Sweden (Remote)
Posted
26 days ago
Department
Product Management
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of Product Management experience in developer tools, observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or another technically complex B2B product domain
  • Strong working knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including SDK instrumentation, OTLP, Collector pipelines, telemetry context, and semantic conventions
  • Experience using or building instrumentation systems, agents, telemetry collectors, configuration products, or related infrastructure
  • An understanding of the challenges involved in deploying and operating software across Kubernetes, virtual machines, and public cloud environments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders in a remote, globally distributed organization
Nice to have
  • Experience contributing to or building products around the OpenTelemetry or broader open source observability ecosystem
  • Experience with automatic instrumentation, eBPF, or runtime-based instrumentation
  • Firsthand experience as an SRE, platform engineer, developer, or observability practitioner
  • Experience building product-led onboarding, configuration-validation, or telemetry-health experiences at scale
What the job really is

As a Staff Product Manager for OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs, you will develop and execute the vision and strategy for OpenTelemetry workloads, ensuring users can easily instrument their data and receive actionable insights in Grafana Cloud. Your role involves collaborating with various teams to create a seamless onboarding experience, troubleshoot issues, and enhance the overall customer journey from setup to successful telemetry usage. You will also leverage AI tools to improve product research and development processes.

Benefits
  • 100% Remote, Global Culture
  • 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
Things to weigh
  • Role involves cross-product strategy and collaboration without direct ownership of every involved technology
  • Focus on customer activation and outcomes rather than solely on open source contributions
  • AI tools will be used in the role, which may affect traditional workflows
Job score3.8/5
Benefits5/5
Freshness4/5
Career value5/5
Role clarity5/5
Pay transparency0/5

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