Director, Product Management - Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingest | Germany | Remote

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is seeking a Director for Product Management in Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion. In this role, you will develop the product vision and strategy for telemetry data management, ensuring product decisions align with customer needs and business objectives while leading a team of Product Managers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and own the product vision and strategy for Data Collection, Transformation, and Ingestion as a core platform capability for Grafana Cloud
• Partner closely with senior R&D leaders to align product and technical strategy across teams, make clear tradeoffs, and ensure the roadmap balances customer value, platform leverage, operational excellence, and business impact
• Use customer research, product analytics, competitive insight, and business context to identify the highest-impact problems to solve
• Define how AI should influence this domain, including how it can help customers instrument applications, configure collection, transform telemetry, control cost, improve data quality, query more efficiently, and troubleshoot ingestion issues more intelligently
• Build strong relationships with customers and prospects, especially technical buyers and observability practitioners
• Help GTM teams understand product differentiation, customer value, roadmap direction, AI relevance, and market positioning
• Coach and develop Product Managers, helping them strengthen their product judgment, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, and ability to drive high-quality outcomes with their cross-functional teams
• Create a high-accountability, high-trust environment where PMs and cross-functional teams understand what matters, why it matters, and how their work contributes to Grafana Labs’ success