Klaviyo
Engineering Manager – Conversational AI Platform
Job Description
At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.
Location: Boston Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
Why You Should Join the Team
The Klaviyo Conversational AI Platform team is building the foundation for how Klaviyo customers plan, create, edit, and iterate on their marketing strategy through an in‑app, AI‑powered conversational experience. We own the native chat surface, the agent orchestrator, and the agentic UI framework that other teams across Klaviyo will plug into.
By joining the Klaviyo Conversational AI Platform team, you will have the opportunity to have a direct impact on over 170,000 brands that use Klaviyo every day to engage with their customers. You’ll also help define and build Klaviyo’s Autonomous Marketing platform: an ecosystem of LLM‑powered agents that can analyze, create, and optimize marketing programs across campaigns, flows, forms, and more.
As the Engineering Manager for Klaviyo Conversational AI Platform, you will lead a fullstack team that owns the main Conversational AI Platform UI while designing the core intent-routing orchestrator and shared agent platform that other teams use to plug in.
This role requires excellent communication and collaboration skills. You will work closely with product managers, product designers, and many other engineering teams to extend and drive evolution of the product.
How You Will Make a Difference
- Lead a team of engineers delivering fullstack, customer-facing features used across Klaviyo’s Conversational AI Platform product offering
- Set the technical direction for the orchestrator that handles intent detection, routing, planning, and multi‑step LLM workflows across many expert agents.
- Own end-to-end execution: scope initiatives, break down work, align dependencies, and deliver high-quality releases on predictable timelines
- Drive architectural decisions that prioritize scalability, reliability, and maintainability across services, data models, and shared component systems
- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate vision into intuitive, performant user experiences
- Drive cross-team collaboration with Engineering to ensure the smooth integration of AI agents across teams.
- Grow and mentor engineers, fostering a high-performance and inclusive team culture
- Collaborate across Klaviyo to align roadmaps and ship cohesive, customer-delighting solutions
- Contribute hands-on via design docs, code reviews, and technical spikes to de-risk complex bets and model engineering excellence
Who You Are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong frontend and backend skills
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally managing fullstack teams.
- Familiarity with frontend technologies like React, TypeScript, and state management tools such as Redux
- Comfortable contributing to backend systems using Python and Django, FastAPI (or equivalent)
- Skilled in system design, reusable component architecture, and scalable frontend platforms
- Familiarity DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (AWS), Terraform, etc.
- Proven track record delivering complex features in fast-paced, product-led environments
- Clear communicator, collaborative leader, and committed to continuous team improvement
- Experience designing or leading systems that use LLMs, tools, or agent‑like workflows
Technologies We Use
- React, TypeScript, Redux
- Python, Django, FastAPI, Langchain
- MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Pulsar,
- GraphQL, RESTful APIs
- AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
Massachusetts Applicants:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.
In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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.
AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop). We provide accommodations as needed.
By participating in Klaviyo’s interview process, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and will adhere to our Guidelines for using AI in the Klaviyo interview Process. For more information about how we process your personal data, see our Job Applicant Privacy Notice.
Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
