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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 Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
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:
The Senior Compensation Analyst role is an exciting opportunity to use your expertise to manage and administer broad-based and variable compensation programs and processes to ensure internally equitable and externally competitive compensation to attract and retain the best talent, all while supporting our growth strategy. You will love this role if you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you have the opportunity to dig into the details, conduct analyses, and provide consultation on a day-to-day basis related to compensation recommendations, strategy, design, and effectiveness.
The responsibilities listed below are a sampling of the projects you would help to support and lead.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Deliver guidance and advisory services to People team and business partners on compensation matters to ensure a balanced approach of market competitiveness to drive attraction and retention of talent while facilitating internal equity across the organization
- Perform regular compensation benchmarking; participate in salary surveys, analyze market and peer group data trends and evaluate impact; review and age structures annually
- Support internal and external compensation offers, ensuring market competitiveness and internal equity
- Train and enable People Team on compensation philosophy, strategy, and processes; maintain internal compensation toolkit
- Drive annual compensation review and equity planning processes including analysis, systems/tools configuration and testing, training, reporting and calibration. Partner with our People Team to ensure salary, variable and equity communications are delivered with maximum impact
- Configure and maintain Workday Advanced Compensation module. Ensure HCM module is regularly updated to reflect changes to structures, programs, packages, and profiles. Support annual compensation review and promotion processes. Assist with Workday time tracking module implementation
- Provide analytical support and data analysis, preparing ad-hoc and regular reports leveraging your expertise with advanced spreadsheet functions
- Conduct strategic analysis of workforce data to identify trends and provide actionable recommendations, including researching best practices
- Ensure compliance with all applicable and emerging global compensation regulations, including global pay transparency, pay equity, and FLSA while leveraging compensation software where appropriate
- Participate in special projects and collaborate cross-functionally, including compensation support for establishing new countries/regions
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- Must be located in either Central or Eastern time zone in the US
- 3-5 years experience in a global compensation role where you have experience with broad-based, sales team, and executive compensation programs, and have prepared compensation committee materials.
- Operate at multiple altitudes, prioritize workload and manage multiple projects and tasks
- You should have superior analytical and problem solving skills with a strong focus on attention to detail whilst delivering against tight deadlines
- Ideally you will have experience of working remotely and/or internationally coordinating with peers and team members globally and understand the challenges and opportunities of remote working and remote communication
- You will need to be an excellent communicator in all channels (in person, online, in writing) and able to form strong working relationships both in person and virtually
- 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
- You will be in the detail and happy to own your administrative tasks through to completion
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation preferred
- Experience with Workday HCM and Advanced Compensation preferred
Compensation & Rewards
In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is $112,000 - $172,000. 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.
*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:
- 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.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- 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.
- 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: 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.
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