Strategic Channel Manager | United Kingdom | Remote

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. 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).

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

The Opportunity

Grafana Labs is looking for a Strategic Channel Manager who will be responsible for developing, executing, and evolving all aspects of our partner sales strategy in the UK region. You will champion the evolution and growth of our EMEA partner program and work closely with the Sales, Operations, and Leadership team to align sales and go-to-market efforts with our product, technical, and sales development efforts. You will be tasked with developing and delivering immediate and future revenue growth through our partner channel. This role requires the experience to build and manage an emerging partner community in UK and you will be well placed to act as a trailblazer to shape the role, develop and evolve the strategy to make your mark. Must be located in the UK.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Proactively identify high-potential partners, onboard and develop relationships with them, and work with them to build practices and businesses around Grafana
• Work with partners including at executive level to develop and execute joint business plans to drive specific revenue targets, working closely with the Grafana regional sales teams
• Primarily working with 3 of our key strategic UK partners. 10% on partner recruitment
• Work closely with partners and Grafana sales teams to facilitate joint sales campaigns
• Develop and execute a strategy to build awareness of the Grafana brand and recruitment of new partners
• Build a partner pipeline and manage the partners to pipeline commitments
• Develop a means of profiling each partner’s focus and core competencies to drive an understanding of the partners business model in developing Grafana in their respective territory or industry
• Work with the leadership team to develop quarterly sales targets for the UK partner channel
• Work across Grafana Labs to provide input on message alignment, operational coordination, and evangelism of the partner strategy and program

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5+ years of experience in channel sales
• 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 carving out the Channels strategy in EMEA
• Strong focus on sales mentality
• Must be located in UK

Bonus Points For

• Experience selling in open source technology is a plus

Compensation & Rewards

In the United Kingdom , the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is GBP 197,600 - GBP 216,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We beli