Senior Solutions Engineer - Remote

^{Make a Difference:}

^{Are you looking for something new in your career? Enjoy a challenge? Love to innovate and learn? This is an exciting opportunity to join our Enterprise Solutions Engineering team. Our Solutions Engineers are our in-house, customer-facing product experts and we enable Grafana Labs worldwide growth by educating potential and existing customers to ensure they are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos, hands-on enablement, presentations, technical evaluations and ongoing interaction. We also partner closely with our Sales team and our Japanese sales partners to help qualify and close opportunities. The Solutions Engineering team is also one of the primary routes of communication from our customers through into the Product Management and Engineering teams.}

• ^{Partner with our Sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers}
• ^{Own the technical engagement with customers and help to close high-velocity opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility}
• ^{Deliver product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers}
• ^{Proactively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide a feedback loop on our products and the competitive landscape}
• ^{Drive product conversations based on need and problems learned during customer interactions}
• ^{Work with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement material.}

^{What would make you a good fit for this role?}

• ^{Located in Japan in or near Tokyo}
• ^{3-5+ years of technical pre-sales experience, ideally with Open Source technologies, or in the Metrics/Monitoring space}
• ^{Be open to various and complex assignments, this will require strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership}
• ^{You will need first class written and oral communication skills to collaborate with our remote-first internal teams and with our worldwide customers.}
• ^{You will need to be able to skilfully articulate our value proposition and the technical advantages of our products}
• ^{You love solving technical challenges and thrive on bringing creative solutions to our customers}
• ^{You should have a technical mindset and a desire to grow technically.}
• ^{Great candidates may be a recent grad of a coding bootcamp or have previous post-sales or engineering experience–we are excited to see what unique experiences and skill sets you bring to the table!}
• ^{Fluent Japanese, plus some English. Other regional languages are advantageous.}