Senior Business Partner -- Technology & Product -- (Remote, United Kingdom)

This is a full time remote role for people in the United Kingdom only. We are looking for candidates who has experience supporting tech and product orgs only. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the global People Business Partnering function at Grafana Labs. You will report to our Director of People Business Partnering and form a critical part of our R&D Business Partnering team supporting our global leadership team to design, implement and drive our People strategy, all while helping us maintain our culture as we scale. 

Our ideal candidate will be able to comfortably span both strategic planning and highly tactical workloads. You’ll have the opportunity to help shape the talent agenda at the same time as rolling your sleeves up to make things happen. You will need to understand the interplay between talent, culture and business needs and have the experience to navigate and make an impact on those inputs.  If you love variety, a broad scope, and have a passion to work with both experienced and new people managers to drive real change in the business, this role may be for you.

The responsibilities listed below are a sampling of the projects you would help to support and lead. 

What you will be responsible for:

• You will partner directly with our R&D management and leadership teams building trusted advisor status with key stakeholders

• You will design and lead the strategic talent agenda for the global R&D function in partnership with our CTO, VP Product and wider Leadership team

• You will identify needs, gaps and opportunities within current processes and policies as well as partner to ensure sustainable and scalable processes are created

• You will support the international People team by acting as the local expert for UK based projects and initiatives

• You will support new and experienced people managers across the R&D function to ensure we build a strong and consistent approach to people management 

• You will partner with our People team to deliver our annual People processes surrounding talent and performance, workforce management, attrition, compensation analysis and learning & development initiatives 

• You will have the professional knowledge to actively contribute to the enhancement and delivery of these processes, as well as provide your experienced perspective on how to improve Grafana initiatives on an ongoing basis

What are we looking for?

• Ideally you’ll have done this before—you have experience in a high-growth scaling environment; you will also have experience partnering with R&D management teams at a Sr. Business Partner level

• You enjoy wearing many hats and are able to be both a strategic partner to the senior leadership team as well as tactical support when needed

• You are process oriented and enjoy creating structure where there may be ambiguity and are skilled at finding creative solutions to non-obvious problems

• You will handle a wide range of complex and highly sensitive employee issues and will maintain confidentiality at all levels of the organization

• You are an excellent communicator in all channels (in-person, over Zoom, in Slack) and you’re able to garner strong working relationships as a result 

• You are a people-person and problem solver at heart - you are able to take your passion for helping others and identifying problems to ultimately define solutions and drive impact via a high say/do ratio

• You appreciate working in a team through competing priorities and are able to use your initiative and creative problem solving to confidently manage decision-making  

• Ideally you have experience of working remotely and internationally coordinating with team members globally and understand the challenges and opportunities of remote work and communication

• You will be highly approachable and provide  a customer service approach to your role ensuring that everyone, locally and internationally, views you as a “go to” person for your business and function

In the United Kingdom, the base compensation range for this role is £78,000 - £94,000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.*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.

About Grafana Labs:

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).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

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