
SMB Account Executive | United States | Remote
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Job overview
Grafana Labs is seeking an SMB Account Executive to prospect and grow business across an assigned region, identifying, nurturing, and closing opportunities with existing customers. The role uses a consultative sales approach to understand customer needs and communicate product value. The account executive manages the sales process, customer data, and forecasts while working toward quarterly and annual sales goals.
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Full job description
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 an SMB Account Executive who will be responsible for prospecting and growing existing business across their assigned region. You will identify, nurture and close opportunities with existing customers. You will manage forecasts and track customer data. We're strong proponents of a consultative sales approach - learn about the customer's needs first before talking about our products. Your expertise will be critical in helping articulate the value of our products.
What You’ll Be Doing:
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Identify new opportunities to expand Grafana usage within a set of current customers
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Meet and exceed individual quarterly and annual sales goals
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Manage all aspects of the sales process (prospecting, sales meetings, product demos, proofs of concept, proposals, negotiations and account management)
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Cultivate sales through outbound prospecting and inbound leads
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Be able to understand and convey the value of both Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise
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Become an expert in managing your sales pipeline in Salesforce
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Manage quote creation, order processing, and day-to-day customer requests
What Makes You a Great Fit:
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1+ years of experience in software sales with a proven track record of exceeding targets in a competitive environment
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Results driven mindset with the ability to identify opportunities, drive deals forward, and deliver measurable results
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Excellent communication skills across all channels (in person, online, in writing) with the ability to build strong working relationships both in person and virtually
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Strong interest in observability and technical sales
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Self-starter mentality, thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments where innovation and execution matter
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Experience with Salesforce, Gong, Quoting tools, and Zoominfo is preferred
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Familiarity with Command of the Message and MEDD(P)ICC sales methodologies is ideal
Compensation & Rewards
In the United States, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is $135,000 - $143,000. 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 and RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally. Other benefits included in the US are 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.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
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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.
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Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
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Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
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Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
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Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
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Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
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Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
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Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
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Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
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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.
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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.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation 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.
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,368 open Account Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$135–143K/yr
- US median$110–150K/yr8,490 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $139K, is 3% above the US median midpoint ($135K) — in the middle half of Account Executive salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11,368 open Account Executive jobs across the US. 17% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Oracle1,352 open
- UKG630 open
- Verint Systems, Inc.253 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Account Executive postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,516 postings).
- Education
- 1,526 of the 11,368 open Account Executive jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Sales jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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