Senior Solutions Engineer | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs Grafana Labs · Data AI · United Kingdom · Remote · Solutions Engineering (EMEA)

This role is for a Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, a company focused on open-source observability tools. The primary responsibility is to act as a customer-facing product expert, enabling growth by educating potential and existing customers through demos, presentations, and technical evaluations. The role involves partnering with sales to qualify and close opportunities, translating customer requirements into solutions using Grafana Labs technology, and providing feedback to product and engineering teams. The role also involves creating enablement materials like documentation, blog posts, and videos.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partnering with our Sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
  2. Owning the technical engagement with customers and help close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill and credibility
  3. Delivering product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers
  4. Effectively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide feedback on our products and the competitive landscape
  5. Driving product conversations based on need and problems with customers
  6. Working with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles and create other public or private enablement material

Skills

Required

  • technical pre-sales experience
  • strong judgment
  • collaboration
  • leadership
  • first class written and oral communication skills
  • technical mindset
  • desire to grow technically
  • located in the UK

Nice to have

  • Experience with Open Source technologies
  • Experience in the Metrics/Monitoring space
  • Experience with sales methodologies like MEDD(P)ICC

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of technical pre-sales experience
  • Must be located in the UK