Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry | Germany | Remote

Overview

Staff Product Manager role for OpenTelemetry Experience, owning the end-to-end journey that helps people and agents instrument workloads and send useful OpenTelemetry data to Grafana Cloud.

What you'll do

• Define the vision, strategy, and cross-product roadmap for the journey from uninstrumented workloads to healthy telemetry.
• Own the end-to-end experience across SDK onboarding, automatic instrumentation, and client-side OpenTelemetry Collector deployment.
• Reduce uncertainty and failure points during adoption, setup, troubleshooting, and validation of telemetry in Grafana Cloud.
• Identify and eliminate leading causes of setup failure, abandonment, misconfiguration, and low-quality telemetry.
• Establish shared experience principles, priorities, and success criteria across product and engineering teams.
• Partner with downstream solution teams to ensure a first-class experience from initial setup through first value.
• Contribute to product positioning and go-to-market with Product Marketing and GTM teams.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of Product Management experience.
• Strong track record in developer tools, observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or another technically complex B2B domain.
• Strong working knowledge of OpenTelemetry (SDK instrumentation, OTLP, Collector pipelines, telemetry context, semantic conventions).
• Experience using or building instrumentation systems, agents, telemetry collectors, configuration products, or related infrastructure.
• Understanding of deployment and operating challenges across Kubernetes, virtual machines, and public cloud environments.
• Experience turning complex onboarding/configuration/troubleshooting workflows into approachable product experiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for remote, globally distributed influence across technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Details

• Location: Germany (Remote).
• Fully remote position and considering candidates in Germany.