Grafana Labs is looking for a Channel Manager, US East who will be responsible for developing, executing, and evolving all aspects of our partner go-to-market strategy in the US East Coast region. You will work closely with the Sales, Marketing, Operations, and leadership team to align sales and go-to-market efforts with our product, technical, and sales development efforts. Your key task will be to develop and deliver immediate and future revenue growth through our partner channel, working primarily with Grafana’s Regional and Boutique Systems Integrators and Value-Added Reseller partners.
This role requires the experience to manage an emerging partner community in the region and you will be well placed to act as a trailblazer to shape the role, develop and evolve the strategy to make your mark within a rapidly growing company where partners are a core element of its GTM. You can be located ideally anywhere on the US East Coast.
Responsibilities
- Own partner opportunity identification and deal acceleration activities to drive revenue targets
- Lead the identification, activation and development efforts for 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 to provide input on message alignment, operational coordination, and evangelism of the partner strategy and program
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in channel sales
- Experience selling SaaS and/or open source technology is a plus
- Demonstrated history of consistent goal achievement at high growth startups
- Experience in consultative sales approach with the primary goal of maintaining exceptionally high levels of customer, partner, and community satisfaction
- Proven experience developing a high performing Channels strategy
In the United States, the OTE compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $272,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits listed on our careers page.
*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.
About Grafana Labs: 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).
Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
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