Commercial Account Executive, Acquisition | Switzerland | Remote

Grafana; Schweiz; Remote; EUR 182,598 - 225,563; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Grafana Labs seeks a Commercial Account Executive, Acquisition, based in Switzerland, to prospect and close new business across Switzerland and Austria. You will identify, nurture and close opportunities with new customers, manage forecasts, and track data.

A consultative sales approach helps you articulate value, guide trials, and hand off strong relationships to Growth. The role favors a technical background with prior selling of technical products, and requires fluency in English and German.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in infrastructure technology sales.
• Experience selling to companies in Switzerland and/or Austria.
• Consistent top performance in a competitive environment.
• Excellent communication across in-person, online, and written channels.
• Fluent in English and German (written and spoken).
• Energetic, upbeat, entrepreneurial, team player.

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed quarterly and annual sales goals.
• Outbound prospecting into net-new customers.
• Manage all aspects of the sales process, including demos and proposals.
• Cultivate sales through outbound and inbound leads.
• Convey the value of Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise.
• Manage sales pipeline in Salesforce.

Skills

Infrastructure sales

Switzerland/Austria sales

Top 10% performer

Communicator (all channels)

English & German fluency

Entrepreneurial team player

Tools

Salesforce

Command of the Message

MEDDPICC

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers - including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce - trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost.

We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re 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.

The Opportunity

Grafana Labs is looking for an Commercial Account Executive, Acquisition based in Switzerland who will be responsible for prospecting and closing new business across Switzerland and Austria. You will identify, nurture and close opportunities with new customers, manage forecasts and track customer data. We're strong proponents of a consultative sales approach - learn about the customer's needs first before talking products. Your expertise will be critical in helping articulate the value of our products, work with the customer during the trial phase and hand off a strong relationship to our Growth team. Ideally, you come from a technical background and have sold technical products before.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Meet and exceed individual quarterly and annual sales goals
• Outbound prospecting into net-new customers
• Manage all aspects of the sales process (prospecting, sales meetings, product demos, proofs of concept, proposals, and negotiations)
• Cultivate sales through outbound prospecting and inbound leads
• Be able to understand and convey the value of both Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise
• Become an expert in managing your sales pipeline in Salesforce
• Manage quote creation, order processing, and day-to-day customer requests

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 2+ Years of experience in infrastructure technology sales
• Previous experience selling to companies based in Switzerland and/or Austria
• Demonstrated history of consistent goal achievement in a highly competitive environment (top 10% performer)
• Energetic, upbeat, entrepreneurial, tenacious team player
• Adaptable and with demonstrable experience in high velocity technology companies
• 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
• Fluent in English & German (both written and spoken)

Bonus Points For:

• French language skills
• Familiarity with open source technology is a significant advantage
• Experience using Salesforce
• Experience using Command of the Message and MEDD(P)ICC is ideal

Compensation & Rewards

In Switzerland, the OTE compensation range for this role is CHF 170,000 - CHF 210,000 . 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—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

*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

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.

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