Description
Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading two distributed engineering squads, setting clear expectations, delegating effectively, coaching and developing team members, and improving how teams work.
Responsibilities:
- Lead two distributed engineering squads, setting clear expectations, delegating effectively, coaching and developing team members, giving timely feedback, addressing performance gaps, and building a culture of trust and accountability.
- Own hiring and team planning across both squads, aligning team capacity and skills with product priorities and longer-term needs.
- Lead discovery with squads, engaging directly with customers, community members, and internal users, combining their feedback with research and usage evidence to shape roadmaps and priorities.
- Partner with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies, and make trade-offs between customer needs, long-term investments, and operational demands.
- Own delivery across both squads from discovery through rollout and measurement, setting milestones, surfacing risks early, and intervening when commitments are at risk.
- Use AI regularly in management work to synthesise research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination, reporting, and follow-through.
- Improve how squads plan, make decisions, and deliver, leading the adoption of AI and automation across engineering and operational workflows.
- Set engineering direction with senior engineers for frontend foundations, including developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability, and multitenant capabilities.
- Set engineering direction for navigation, search, and resource organisation, including where AI-assisted discovery can help users find what they need.
- Set and uphold engineering standards for quality, security, and operability.
- Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that increase engineering productivity and improve business outcomes.
- Participate in the engineering management on-call rota, coordinating responses and driving improvements that reduce recurring disruption.
Requirements:
- Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams, and developing technical leaders.
- Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems.
- Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results.
- Strong product and customer judgement, with the ability to connect engineering investments to user, developer, and business outcomes.
- Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation.
- Appreciation for open-source development and the judgement to balance Cloud-first delivery with the needs of customers, community members, and internal teams.
- Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with React, TypeScript, or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems.
- Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions.
- Experience with navigation, search, information architecture, or resource-management products.
- Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations.
- Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Base compensation range: CAD 211,450 - CAD 253,740.
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
- 100% remote, global culture.
- Scaling organisation with meaningful work in a high-growth environment.
- Transparent communication and open decision-making.
- Innovation-driven with autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.