Klaviyo
Engineering Manager – Signup Forms
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 careers.klaviyo.com to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.
Why You Should Join the Signup Forms Team:
As an Engineering Manager joining the Signup Forms team you will be deeply involved in technical design discussions and implementation of our Signup Forms product and other adjacent product areas. You will own the technical output of the team, grow and mentor the engineers on the team and collaborate with Product, Design and Product Analytics to ensure that we build features that contribute to the core North Star metric of the team.
The Signup Forms team is the owner of Klaviyo’s Forms Product. This includes the editing experience, the Form Template Library, delivering and rendering forms on customers’ websites, measuring the impact of the forms and reporting. This is a full stack team and is responsible for a highly scalable, distributed system. This team not only focuses on building intuitive and powerful interfaces to create highly customizable and eye-catching content, it is also responsible for delivering this content to the customers’ websites. This product area is core to Klaviyo’s continued success.
There are ample opportunities for growth given the scope of this role and the team’s central role in Klaviyo’s product. This role is stemming from growth in this product area.
As an Engineering Manager, you will have ownership of the team’s mission, goals, and roadmap while collaborating along-side technical product owners and product managers. Together, you'll define scope and specifications while refining RFCs to ensure deliverables are met and stability and quality is maintained.
The technical stack used by the team is: Typescript, React, Python, Django and MySQL.
How You Will Make a Difference
- Drive dramatic growth in one of Klaviyo’s core product areas.
- Lead a growing team with between 7 to 12 direct reports.
- Leverage AI for content generation and optimization.
- Have the opportunity to get hands on with the code, honing your technical expertise to support and mentor your team.
- Guide system design and implementation trade-offs with business partners and your team.
- Identify the critical path forward and map that into a plan for your team.
- Iterate and improve upon processes within your team and across the entire engineering department (i.e. recruiting, performance reviews, project planning, and more)
- Drive complex projects with a team of great people which meaningfully contribute to our customers’ experience and Klaviyo’s success.
- You have 9+ years of engineering experience, including 3–4 years directly managing engineering teams.
- You have experience leading full stack development on SaaS products, with strong hands-on skills in Python and TypeScript.
- You have experience building and scaling cloud-based systems using infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- You’ve managed teams of 6+ engineers, including remote and local team members, and you actively contribute by picking up tickets and writing production code when needed.
- You have experience leading complex, multi-quarter projects that involve cross-functional collaboration and drive product impact.
- You’ve worked closely with product and executive stakeholders, contributing to roadmap planning and prioritization.
- You have experience mentoring engineers, giving performance reviews, and helping team members grow through clear feedback and support.
- You understand what it takes to build for scale—leveraging queues, caches, CDNs, and background workers—and have experience making thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
- You’ve owned or contributed to a team’s technical roadmap and can align engineering decisions with both technical and business goals.
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Massachusetts Applicants:
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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. Please visit Klaviyo Rewards to find out more about our Total Rewards package.
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.
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.
