This is an exciting opportunity to join our already strong 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 cross-functional partnerships with our people managers on their day to day needs and business goals. You will find yourself diving into highly tactical discussions at times and you won’t be afraid to roll your sleeves up when it relates to our People team initiatives. 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. You will have a real opportunity to create and to design strategic processes to differentiate the People function ensuring that Grafana Labs continues to shine to prospective and tenured Grafanistas as a great place to work.
What you will be responsible for:
You will partner directly with our R&D management and leadership teams building trusted advisor status with key stakeholdersYou will identify needs, gaps and opportunities within current processes and policies as well as partner to ensure sustainable and scalable processes are createdYou will support the international People team by acting as the local expert for UK based projects and initiativesYou 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 data, 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 levelYou enjoy wearing many hats and are able to be both a strategic partner to the senior leadership team as well as tactical support when neededYou are process oriented and enjoy creating structure where there may be ambiguity and are skilled at finding creative solutions to non-obvious problemsYou will handle a wide range of complex and highly sensitive employee issues and will maintain confidentiality at all levels of the organizationYou 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 all via a high say/do ratioYou 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 communicationYou don’t mind being in the weeds at times and are happy to mentor more junior members of the team from a development perspective You will be highly approachable while successfully being able to 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 £75,000 - £90,000. 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 .*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.