Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. 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).
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
The Opportunity:
Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Commercial Counsel to join our dedicated, collaborative, and fast-growing legal team. This role will serve as a strategic legal partner to the business, with primary responsibility for leading high-impact, revenue-generating transactions and supporting the Grafana Labs sales organization in structuring, negotiating, and closing complex enterprise on-premises and SaaS commercial agreements.
This role will also support broader legal matters, including reviewing and negotiating vendor and marketing agreements, advising on and supporting channel programs, contributing to privacy initiatives, maintaining commercial legal form agreements, and partnering on other cross-functional matters.
The successful candidate will be a creative and analytical thinker who is highly detail-oriented and embraces a business-oriented approach. They will have the ability to think strategically and build trusted advisor relationships with internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings significant experience leading negotiations of complex, high-value commercial agreements with Fortune 500 and other sophisticated enterprise customers, often on customer paper and within highly regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services.
This individual is an exceptional drafter and strategic negotiator with strong business judgment, able to quickly distinguish between material legal risk and negotiable terms. They take a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach that balances legal protection with commercial objectives, ensuring negotiations remain constructive and deals continue progressing toward closure. The candidate should have a proven track record as a trusted partner to sales, with demonstrated success managing sophisticated counterparties, navigating complex issues, and driving critical revenue-generating transactions through to timely and successful execution.
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Compensation & Rewards:
In the United States, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is $222,779 - $275,355 Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*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.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.