Drive new business acquisition and existing customer growth for Grafana Cloud, meeting sales targets and managing customer engagements.
Grafana Labs is seeking a driven and dynamic individual to join our Velocity Sales team as a Velocity Account Executive. This team operates within our self-serve group, focusing on new customer acquisition within our product led growth (PLG) segment.
We’re looking for a high-performing, ambitious individual eager to step into an early-stage sales role with the opportunity to make a direct impact. If you’re passionate about observability, PLG, and building scalable sales strategies, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of Grafana Cloud and accelerate your career in a high-growth environment.
What you’ll do:
- Spearhead the growth & adoption of Grafana Cloud by converting our month-to-month customers into long-term, high-value annual contracts
- Own the full sales cycle from identifying opportunities to closing deals, ensuring customer success along the way
- Leverage data-driven insights to proactively engage customers and position the long-term value of Grafana cloud
- Expertly convey the value of Grafana Cloud and differentiation between our Self-Serve and Contracted options
- Partner with cross functional teams to refine messaging, improve product, and enhance the customer journey
- Shape the future of the team by contributing best practices, sales playbooks, and process improvements as we build
- Manage quote creation, order processing, and day-to-day customer requests
- Consistently meet and exceed sales objectives
What you bring:
- 1+ years of experience in software sales with a proven track record of exceeding targets in a competitive environment
- Results driven mindset with the ability to identify opportunities, drive deals forward, and deliver measurable results
- Excellent communication skills across all channels (in person, online, in writing) with the ability to build strong working relationships both in person and virtually
- Strong interest in observability, PLG, and technical sales
- Self-starter mentality, thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments where innovation and execution matter
- Experience with Salesforce, Gong, Quoting tools, and Zoominfo is preferred
- Familiarity with Command of the Message and MEDD(P)ICC sales methodologies is ideal
In the United States, the OTE compensation range for this role is $115,000-$130,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.
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