Engineering Manager, Ventures

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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

• Launch a new product as part of a growing team exploring new revenue opportunities.
• Be empowered to own the mission, technical direction and operations of projects that have immediate impact
• Advance your management and technical skills in all facets ranging from front end web development and user experience to machine learning and massively parallelized data pipelines
• As a Software Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with engineers, designers and a product manager. You’ll build amazing new products and experiences that unlock new growth trajectories for Klaviyo. You’ll make key hires that change the trajectory of Klaviyo

 

 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:

• Entrepreneurial - You’ve launched your own companies or side projects are used to working quickly and iteratively based on customer feedback.
• Empathetic - Experience 1:1 interfacing with customers to help improve your product and process. Experience managing a team of 5+ engineers.
• Experienced - 5+ years of experience and have architected, built and delivered user-facing features that added business value. 3+ years of management specific experience.
• Confident - You are comfortable setting higher-level technical direction and process with the help of peers and senior management. You are comfortable with ambiguity.
• Curious - You enjoy working with new technologies ranging from the frontend to backend and have deep experience in multiple technology stacks. You show this by having strong opinions and experience with various technologies throughout multiple projects. You know how to pick the right tool for any job.

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(