Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry | Germany | Remote
Core
Define vision and strategy for the end-to-end journey of instrumenting workloads and sending OpenTelemetry data to Grafana Cloud, ensuring healthy, actionable telemetry for humans and AI agents.
Role type
Staff Product Manager (Developer Tools/Observability)
Builds
Coherent instrumentation experiences, SDK onboarding, automatic instrumentation (Beyla/SDK injection), and Collector deployment workflows.
Domain
Observability, OpenTelemetry ecosystem, Developer Tools, AI-assisted development
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Product strategy, cross-product roadmap ownership, customer research, technical proficiency in observability/infrastructure, AI tool adoption, stakeholder management, go-to-market strategy
Preferred skills
Experience with OpenTelemetry ecosystem, knowledge of Kubernetes/infrastructure monitoring, AI agent interaction design
Technologies
OpenTelemetry, Beyla, OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana Cloud, AI tools
Responsibilities
Define cross-product roadmap for telemetry ingestion to product activation; Eliminate setup failures and low-quality telemetry; Partner with engineering teams on Application/Kubernetes/Infrastructure observability; Develop positioning and adoption programs with Product Marketing; Represent Grafana Labs in OpenTelemetry ecosystem discussions
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
