
Manager, Solutions Engineering
Grafana Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: France
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Salary
💰 €129,000 - €154,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Attract, recruit, ramp and mentor a team of great Presales SE’s from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Get the best out of your team with a servant based leadership approach. Adopting a player/coach mentality will be critical here, ensuring that you balance your field responsibilities with the needs of your team.
- Direct the bulk of your day to day work based on guidance and goals from leadership, owning the planning, actions and outcomes of the region.
- Partner with the Benelux / NEMEA Sales leadership on customer programs, marketing initiatives and community/company events to drive adoption and expansion within our customer base.
- Executive sponsorship of key accounts in the region will be key to your success. Being a thought leader/partner to your customers and the company within EMEA.
- Understanding your key customers’ strategies for adoption of Grafana technologies and developing programs and collateral to enable them to be successful.
- Ensure that your customers’ requirements are being met with our product through partnership with Product Management and Engineering, helping them prioritize their team's time with a data-driven approach to wins/losses/needs vs wants, etc.
- Own and report on the quarter over quarter cadence of your team while they help prospects evaluate our software with demonstrations, technical deep dives, trials and POVs.
- Find and drive enablement and sell with/through channel partners in the region.
Requirements
- Some experience leading a team, 5-10 years in the high tech industry having held roles such as Developer, Architect, Sales Engineer/Architect, Manager, etc.
- Proven success working in a fast-paced, high growth startup environment that is remote-first
- Proven track record of mentoring, developing people and managing performance over time. Has successfully mentored individual contributors.
- Open Source selling or Cloud first/Product led sales go to market motion a big plus.
- Direct experience implementing and/or executing a formal sales methodology, eg COM, Value selling, qualification frameworks like MEDDPICC
- Direct experience selling monitoring/data/visualisation products.
- Proven ability to own a book of business, direct your own and your team's work and initiatives to exceed your quarterly targets.
- English fluency required, and a second European language is preferred.
- Located in France
Benefits
- equity
- bonus (if applicable)
- other benefits listed on our careers page
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
sales methodologyCOMValue sellingMEDDPICCmonitoring productsdata visualization productscloud salesopen source selling
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringteam managementperformance managementcommunicationservant leadershipplayer/coach mentality