Senior Solutions Engineer | East Coast | Remote

Grafana Labs Grafana Labs · Data AI · United States · Remote · Solutions Engineering (North & South America)

This role is for a Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, focusing on customer-facing product expertise. The primary responsibility is to enable Grafana Labs' worldwide growth by educating potential and existing customers through demos, hands-on enablement, presentations, and technical evaluations. The role involves partnering with the Sales team to qualify and close opportunities, acting as a communication channel from customers to Product Management and Engineering, and contributing to enablement materials. While the company uses AI in its observability platform, this role is not directly building or researching AI models but rather supporting the sales and customer success aspects of AI-enabled products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the technical engagement with customers and help to close high-velocity opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
  2. Deliver product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers
  3. Proactively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide a feedback loop on our products and the competitive landscape
  4. Drive product conversations based on need and problems learned during customer interactions
  5. Work with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement material

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of technical pre-sales experience
  • Open Source technologies experience
  • Metrics/Monitoring space experience
  • Strong judgment
  • Collaboration skills
  • Leadership skills
  • First class written communication skills
  • First class oral communication skills
  • Ability to articulate value proposition and technical advantages

Nice to have

  • Ideally located in Greater NYC or Boston Area
  • Recent grad of a coding bootcamp
  • Previous post-sales or engineering experience

What the JD emphasized

  • technical pre-sales experience
  • hit the ground running
  • varied and complex
  • strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership
  • first class written and oral communication skills
  • skillfully articulate our value proposition and the technical advantages of our products
  • love solving technical challenges
  • desire to grow technically