Senior Product Manager, Performance Testing

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs builds an open observability cloud grounded in open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Its Grafana Cloud platform is a managed observability solution designed to scale, helping organizations make sense of distributed data and respond faster with the aid of useful AI. The company serves more than 35 million users and over 7,000 customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, and operates as a fully remote organization with 1,600+ people across 40+ countries.

This role is open to candidates in the UK and is fully remote. Grafana Labs emphasizes transparency, autonomy, trust, and collaborative work across a globally distributed team.

About the Role

As Senior Product Manager for Performance Testing, you will shape the experience for Grafana Cloud k6, the company’s performance testing offering built on the k6 open-source project. You will define how users create, run, and act on performance tests throughout the software delivery lifecycle, with the goal of making Grafana Cloud k6 the preferred choice for teams moving away from legacy tools and adopting shift-left testing.

The product area spans both Grafana Cloud k6, which executes tests at scale from 21 global locations, and k6 OSS, the open-source CLI that supports developer confidence and community growth. You will also guide how test outcomes connect with Grafana Cloud metrics, logs, and traces so that failures can be traced back to specific causes quickly. The role extends across different testing modes such as protocol, browser, and mobile, while ensuring the experience is cohesive, opinionated, and commercially compelling.

You will work across R&D to make Performance Testing part of the wider Grafana Cloud suite, including connections with the Knowledge Graph and core products such as Application Observability and Kubernetes Monitoring. This enables customers to move smoothly from pre-production validation to production monitoring.

What You'll Do

• Convert customer insights, ideas, and feedback into a clear product vision and roadmap.
• Develop a strong understanding of customer challenges, needs, and pain points.
• Translate user feedback into actionable input for Engineering, backed by evidence to support prioritization and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Product Marketing to support go-to-market efforts through presentations, documentation, website copy, datasheets, and whitepapers.
• Apply deep product judgment to decisions around pricing, packaging, licensing, tiering, and overall go-to-market strategy.

What We're Looking For

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 7 years of product management experience.
• At least 5 years of experience working on a B2B SaaS product.
• Background in building or using developer tools, APIs, or platform services.
• Comfort discussing APIs, data models, schema changes, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience promoting shared services or platform capabilities across multiple product teams.
• Ability to collaborate with Engineering and Design teams to ship well-designed products and features in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Bonus Experience

• Exposure to open source software or commercial open source businesses.
• Experience building or using observability products or developer tools, either as an internal SRE or for external users.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure concepts such as Kubernetes, cloud service providers, and virtual machines, with the ability to explain them clearly.
• Familiarity with AI tools.

Compensation and Benefits

For candidates in the UK, the base salary range for this position is GBP 91,755 to 110,106. Final compensation may differ depending on level, experience, and skills evaluated during the hiring process. The role also includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving team members ownership in Grafana Labs’ success.

For applicants based outside the UK, the recruiter will share the pay range and benefits relevant to the specific market early in the process.

Why You May Enjoy Working Here

• Fully remote work with a global, collaborative culture.
• Opportunity to contribute meaningful work in a fast-growing organization.
• Transparent communication and company-wide visibility into decisions.
• Room to experiment and innovate with support and autonomy.
• Strong open-source roots that shape the way the company operates.
• A high-trust environment focused on outcomes rather than appearances.
• Clear pathways for career growth and development.
• Accessible leadership that stays involved and visible.
• A supportive team of motivated people who care deeply about their work.
• In-person onboarding for new joiners.
• Annual leave of 30 days per year, including 3 days reserved for company shutdown days, subject to local legal requirements where applicable.

Equal Opportunity and Hiring Notes

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of protected characteristics under local law. The company also notes that AI tools may be used in recruitment to help match CV information with job postings, while the hiring team continues to review applications manually.

Personal data handling after application is covered by the company’s privacy policy.