<div>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 <a href="https://grafana.com/products/cloud/">Grafana Cloud</a> or self-managed with the <a href="https://grafana.com/products/enterprise/">Grafana Enterprise Stack</a>, both featuring scalable metrics (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/">Grafana Mimir</a>), logs (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/">Grafana Loki</a>), and traces (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/">Grafana Tempo</a>). 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.</div><h1>Documentation &amp; Technical Writing Manager</h1> This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the US (Eastern time zone). The Opportunity: Documentation is among the most critical and consumed content by users of Grafana. As a Documentation and Technical Writing Manager at Grafana Labs, you will be guiding the direction and enhancement of our documentation. In this role, youll manage a team of Technical Writers who develop documentation for developer audiences and interact with engineering and other internal and external groups to define team deliverables, priorities, and processes. Youll also contribute to the writing and editing of the documentation and create process improvements. We are looking for a Documentation and Technical Writing Manager who understands the documentation and technical writing needs of a fast-growing company with both open source and commercial products. In addition to helping manage a technical writing team to keep up with our fast pace of development, you will also have an ownership role in improving our documentation site and working across the organization to identify documentation needs, requests, and prioritization. You will help drive collaboration across teams, responding to requests for a variety of tailored content that ensures our products are easy to learn and rapidly adopted. What You’ll Be Doing: <ul> <li>Understand the gaps in our current documentation and how to organize and build documentation for scale</li> <li>Help establish best practices within the technical writing team to keep up with our needs for documentation across projects and products</li> <li>Manage a team of technical writers</li> <li>Work with the technical writing management team and other stakeholders to support a collaborative, intentional content strategy across content types, including blogs and video</li> <li>Collaboratively develop opinionated content that helps users become successful with our products using our technical documentation</li> <li>Support a transparent project management process to help internal stakeholders track significant updates to our documentation</li> <li>Promote an approach that focuses on results and supports work-life balance by helping to balance assignments across the team when workloads are uneven, manage conflicting priorities, and prevent over-resourcing</li> </ul> What Makes You a Great Fit:   <ul> <li>Experience leading and writing excellent developer documentation in a dynamic, fast-paced environment</li> <li>Experience interacting with engineering and other internal and external groups to define deliverables, priorities, and processes</li> <li>Player/coach mentality to engage with an international team</li> <li>Ability to quickly understand the organization’s needs and develop a plan in response, helping technical writers prioritize high-priority feature release work with other documentation, usability, and process improvements</li> <li>Experience managing remotely across global time zones</li> <li>Experience as a technical writer working on developer documentation</li> <li>Experience working with the open source community</li> <li>Experience building relationships and advocating for the technical writing discipline with internal stakeholders</li> <li>First-class written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills</li> <li>Experience working with docs-as-code, Markdown, Git, GitHub, and project management tools</li> </ul> In the US, the base compensation range for this role is $139,572 - $167,486. 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.<div><div> *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 &amp; benefits at the beginning of the process. Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs: <ul> <li>100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.</li> <li>Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.</li> <li>Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.</li> <li>Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.</li> <li>Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.</li> <li>Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.</li> <li>Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.</li> <li>Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.</li> <li>Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.</li> <li>In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. </li> <li>Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.</li> </ul> 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. #LI-Remote </div> <div>For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our <a href="https://grafana.com/legal/applicant-and-candidate-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">privacy policy</a>. </div> <div> </div></div>