Regional Sales Director, Growth | France | Remote

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. 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 looking for a Regional Sales Director, Growth who will be responsible for leading a team of Growth Account Executives across France. As the RSD you will be asked to drive revenue growth, retain and attract new talent, and grow your customer base within your assigned territory. You will be recognised as a sales leader throughout the company – setting the tone and pace for your specified region. We are looking for an entrepreneurial sales leader - someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. You’ll spend your time developing and executing sales strategies, mentoring your team, and strategically partnering with groups across the organisation.You will guide your team through a consultative sales approach where you will learn about your prospect’s needs and then dive into the potential fit. Your expertise will be critical in helping articulate the value of our products and building strong relationships between the prospect and the Grafana sales team. Ideally, you come from a technical background and have sold visualisation, application performance management, or cloud-based tooling before. If you have worked with open-source software before, that’s even better. This is a critical hire for the company and you’ll be working closely with the rest of the GTM leadership team. We are looking for someone who wants to sign up for that challenge and build something great. What You’ll Be Doing Develop and mentor your sales team Develop a pipeline to help over-achieve revenue targets Direct sales activities by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals Build and maintain an annual sales plan (goals) in support of our organisational strategy and objectives Meet with prospects and strategise with sales representatives to help close deals Help the team prepare for QBRs and HBRs Develop long-term, strategic relationships with key contacts within their account base Strategically partner with Marketing, Solution Engineers, R&D, Customer Support and other functional teams What Makes You a Great Fit: Minimum 2 years of leading successful sales teams Minimum 8 years of successful direct sales experience Experience navigating complex sales cycles Excellent communication (written, oral) and presentation skills (in-person, virtual) Comfort working closely and building relationships with C-Level executives Consistent track record in shaping strategic seven-figure deals MEDDPICC expertise Experience working with ROI and cost modeling to educate and assist potential buyers Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills Unwavering dedication to integrity and professionalism Fluent in English and French Bonus Points For: Background in technical applications, familiarity with OSS is a big plus Experience leading AEs landing new logos and expanding existing clients Previous experience as an Account Executive in the French region Compensation & Rewards In France, the OTE compensation range for this role is EUR 237,000