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Ventures is where Klaviyo builds new products that are adjacent to the core business. We seek to leverage data, automation and scale to deliver our customers more powerful and integrated experiences.
This is a high visibility, high impact role with ample opportunity for growth. You will lead a team building mission-critical features for a suite of products headlining Klaviyo’s next phase of growth. You will be the standard bearer of one or more teams as Klaviyo continues to build out its Ventures arm.
Why you should join Klaviyo Ventures
We’re looking for entrepreneurial builders who want to work with a small team to rapidly iterate against new product areas. You will work closely with potential customers to build solutions to key problems they face. You will manage a team of 5+ engineers with a bias for action and adding value to our growing product suite.
You’ll have the autonomy to move fast and get a product from zero to one. And then you will scale it to hundreds of thousands of users.
How you’ll make a difference
Who You Are
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager with experience hiring for scale while maintaining a can-do team culture with a bias for action. We expect this manager to be able to jump into any technical issue and have experience using Typescript, React and Python to craft scalable systems.
Candidates for this role should be confident in managing projects on tight timelines with limited resources. They should be able to make tradeoffs between scope and time to market. Additionally, this manager should have previously worked on several high impact products and have a process for bringing such products to market given a range of different types of engineers and systems.
Klaviyo at present has over 143K+ paying customers generating over $50bn+ of Klaviyo Attributed Value (KAV) and it is important we are able to scale inside and outside our customer base. To that end, we expect engineers on our team can build and work with fault tolerant, containerized distributed systems. On the frontend, we expect that you can re-use and create flexible components capable of rendering across browsers & devices with different specs.
At your core, you are:
The pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation and hourly non-exempt roles are eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law. This role is eligible for benefits, including: medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), flexible paid time off and company-paid holidays and a culture of learning that includes a learning allowance and access to a professional coaching service for all employees.
Get to Know Klaviyo
We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.
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