Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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.
We're looking for a strategic finance leader to partner with GTM executives and help shape the future of the Finance & Strategy organization. This role combines financial leadership, business partnership, data-driven decision making, and finance transformation to improve business outcomes and scale the organization.
This is a senior individual contributor role — you'll lead through influence and expertise rather than direct reports. It reports to the Senior Director, GTM Finance & Strategy.
What You’ll Be Doing:- Partner with GTM leadership to translate business strategy into financial plans, investment decisions, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead annual planning, forecasting, long-range planning, and driver-based financial models across GTM.
- Deliver actionable financial insights, scenario analysis, and executive recommendations that influence strategic decisions.
- Modernize Finance through AI, automation, and scalable planning processes that improve speed, quality, and forecast accuracy.
- Partner with Data & Analytics to improve financial metrics, data quality, dashboards, and self-service reporting.
- Drive strategic investment analysis, resource allocation, and performance management across the business.
- Support complex commercial decisions and strategic initiatives through financial modeling and cross-functional partnership.
- Continuously improve finance processes, reporting, and operating leverage through technology and automation.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Strategy, FP&A, or Corporate Finance within high-growth SaaS or technology companies.
- Proven experience partnering with executive leadership to influence strategic business decisions.
- Strong financial modeling, planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis expertise.
- Experience building scalable finance processes and improving operational efficiency through automation.
- Passion for leveraging AI, automation, and modern technologies to transform Finance.
- Strong understanding of SaaS business models and key metrics, including ARR, NRR, GRR, CAC, and LTV.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and business judgment with the ability to simplify complex decisions.
- Strong communication and executive storytelling skills with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
- Experience collaborating across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Operations, and Data teams in a fast-paced environment.
- High integrity, ownership, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset.
In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is $185,000 - $220,000. 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 believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
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*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.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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