Channel Account Manager | Remote | Northeast

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . 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 Labs is looking for a Strategic Channel Sales Manager, who will be responsible for developing, executing, and evolving all aspects of our partner go-to-market strategy in the US East Coast region. You will work closely with the Sales, Solution Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and leadership team to align sales and go-to-market efforts with our product, technical, and sales development efforts. Your key task will be to develop and deliver immediate and future partner sourced revenue growth through our partner channel, working primarily with Grafana’s Regional Systems Integrators and Value-Added Resellers. This role requires the experience to build an emerging partner community in the region and you will be well placed to act as a trailblazer to shape the role, develop and evolve the strategy to make your mark within a rapidly growing company where partners are a core element of its GTM. This is NOT a programmatic Channel and Distribution role where operationalisation of programmatic elements of a Channel business is the priority. This IS a Sales focus Channel role for someone who thrives in a very fast paced environment, is comfortable owning a partner sourced revenue number and has what it takes to build upon a fast growing Channel business in the region. What You’ll Be Doing Develop executive level relationships with focus partners in the US East Coast region Own partner opportunity identification and deal acceleration activities to drive revenue targets Lead the identification, activation and development efforts for regional partners Develop partner capabilities, co-sell motions and brand awareness initiatives Establish strong executive relationships to create partnership business plans Work with leadership to manage pipeline and revenue commitments Work across Grafana Labs to provide input on message alignment, operational coordination, and evangelism of the partner strategy and program What Makes You a Great Fit Located in the US East (ideally Northeast) region 7+ years of experience in channel sales or sales (selling with partners) Experience selling SaaS (open source technology is a plus) and MEDDPICC selling methodologies Demonstrated history of consistent goal achievement at high growth startups Experience in consultative sales approach with the primary goal of maintaining exceptionally high levels of customer, partner, and community satisfaction Proven experience developing a high performing Channels strategy for SaaS vendors Bonus Points For Running Low Touch deal cycles with Partners independently of Direc