Developer Community Programs Specialist (APAC)

Employment Type: [Not specified] Location Type: [Not specified] Salary: $101,000 - $126,000 (Singapore)

Position Overview

Community and open source are at the heart of everything we do at Grafana Labs. As a Developer Community Programs Specialist, you’ll take a hands-on role in supporting and growing our open source and developer communities, with a focus on the APAC region. You’ll help implement programs that empower contributors, foster connections within the community, and guide internal teams on how to engage effectively. This is an execution-focused role for someone who enjoys organising meetups, managing swag and recognition, supporting contributors, and helping evaluate local sponsorships. You’ll also own a few scoped projects each quarter, with the opportunity to lead one larger program annually. We’re looking for someone who’s a strong communicator, empathetic, resilient, and highly organised—a natural collaborator and problem solver.

Key Responsibilities

• Organise and support community meetups across APAC, including collaboration with local organisers.
• Evaluate and execute regional conference sponsorships, including logistics and community presence.
• Represent Grafana Labs in online and in-person settings, with travel up to 30%.
• Partner with affinity-based communities to explore collaboration opportunities.
• Partner with internal teams to enable and inspire their involvement in community initiatives.
• Respond to and manage incoming community requests and opportunities.
• Provide insights to the broader team by monitoring community health and identifying emerging needs.
• Manage swag logistics and recognition efforts for community contributors.

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years of experience supporting developer communities at global, regional, or local levels.
• 2+ years of experience organising community events such as meetups and conferences.
• Compassionate relationship-building skills, especially across diverse communities.
• Experience leading projects and improving programs through thoughtful, creative approaches.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Analytical thinking and attention to detail when executing community-facing programs.
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset and ability to work independently in a distributed team.
• Comfortable using tools like Common Room, Slack, and Monday.com (or equivalents) to track engagement.

Bonus Points

• Experience with or participation in open source communities.
• Familiarity with observability and/or Grafana Labs technologies.
• Proficiency in additional language(s).

Compensation and Benefits

In Singapore, the base compensation range for this role is $101,000 - $126,000. 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. For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

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).

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, we encourage you to still apply.