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Director of Strategy and Planning | United States | Remote
Director of Strategy and Planning | United States | RemoteGrafana Labs • Los Angeles, CA, US
Director of Strategy and Planning | United States | Remote

Director of Strategy and Planning | United States | Remote

Grafana Labs • Los Angeles, CA, US
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Director Of Strategy And Planning

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, logs, and traces.

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's GTM organization is looking for a Director of Strategy & Planning. Reporting to our VP of Revenue Operations, you will work with a cross-functional team of stakeholders to define growth strategies, provide insights to business performance, and set the standard for data-driven decision making in GTM. To be successful, you will be able to operate in an unstructured, fast paced environment as you help build the foundations for our future growth.

What You'll Be Doing :

  • Establish standard reports and tools to analyze business performance, help set operational targets, and drive planning processes with the Go-To-Market Operations team.
  • Evaluate changes to our GTM organization : roles, targets, capacity planning.
  • Work with Global and Regional Sales and Services leaders to evaluate strategic opportunities and / or transformational initiatives; New market evaluation, M&A integration, vertical planning, pricing, etc.
  • Become an expert in how our GTM data is captured, how it ties to underlying business processes, and how it impacts key metrics and reports.
  • Identify operational gaps in our reporting capabilities and / or inefficiencies in the planning process. Work with Analytics and Business Systems teams to build scalable solutions.
  • Help create the connective tissue across our internal stakeholders : Revenue Operations, Marketing, Finance, Data, and GTM leadership.

What Makes You a Great Fit :

  • 7 years of experience in strategy and operations, consulting, enterprise technology sales / strategy, or a similar role.
  • Demonstrated track record of strategic thinking and analysis seeing over the horizon to identify opportunities, envision models, and strategic paths to capture opportunities, as well as spot emerging risks.
  • Strong modeling and analytical skills comfort with complex segmentation analysis and workforce planning.
  • Excellent communication skills with executive audiences - explain "what it is", "why it matters" and "what should we do" in terms of your data and analysis.
  • Experience in a Sales or GTM organization, and familiarity with common sales methodologies (MEDDPICC or MEDDIC) and models (rep productivity, rep capacity, campaign influence, and quota modeling).
  • High comfort with ambiguity. You identify the right priorities and put in the hard work without need for external motivation.
  • You think critically and creatively, continually reorienting to obstacles to define a better way to achieve our goals.
  • Bonus Points For :

  • Previous experience in open source.
  • Experience with Grafana, Tableau or other analysis / BI tools.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce CPQ, Zuora, or other CPQ / Q2C / subscription management tools.
  • Familiarity with marketing automation (Marketo) or sales productivity tools (Outreach, Clari, People.ai).
  • Familiarity with SQL or similar database querying language (you won't be deep in SQL, but helps to have heard of a LEFT JOIN).
  • Compensation & Rewards :

    In the United States, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is $220,000 - $275,000. 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 outcomesRSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

    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 : We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we're working hard to make sure that's the foundation of our organization 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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