Grafana Labs

Manager, Solutions Engineering

Grafana Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: France

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Salary

💰 €129,000 - €154,000 per year

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