Engineering Manager - Growth
Klaviyo
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Why You Should Join Our Team:
Klaviyo’s Growth teams are obsessed with helping customers succeed with the platform, whether by improving their onboarding experience, helping them to more easily adopt features that will drive value for their business, or by reducing points of friction and improving the overall user experience. These teams live and breathe data, and all of the work that they do is released as experiments. The work has a direct and measurable impact on customer activation and retention, playing a critical role in Klaviyo's product-led growth strategy.
As the Engineering Manager in Growth, you will lead two small and highly collaborative teams of engineers, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to define technical strategy and drive delivery across dynamic workstreams. You will serve as both a technical leader and people manager, helping your teams to solve complex problems, architect scalable solutions, and deliver seamless user experiences. While this is a leadership role, you will maintain hands-on technical involvement, particularly in design reviews, technical direction, and high-priority coding when needed.
How You Will Make a Difference:
- Lead and manage two teams of 3 engineers each, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development.
- Define and execute technical strategy in partnership with Product and Design leads.
- Drive delivery of impactful experiments, including onboarding workflows and broader product-led growth features.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data Science to understand customer needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Ensure the teams deliver high-quality, maintainable code and evolves our systems to support scalability and performance.
- Contribute technically through design reviews, architecture discussions, and occasional hands-on development.
Who You Are:
- Experienced engineering leader with a proven track record as a player-coach.
- Strong fullstack engineering background with an emphasis on front-end development.
- Deep hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend engineering best practices.
- Comfortable working with backend systems using Python or Node.
- Skilled in driving technical direction, managing ambiguity, and leading dynamic product-focused teams.
- Collaborative, communicative, and motivated by delivering customer value.
- Passionate about partnering closely with Product and Design to solve user problems and improve adoption.
- Experienced in building systems that respond to real-time data and customer behavior.
Technologies We Use (not exhaustive):
- React, TypeScript
- Python, Django
- MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis
- AWS (EC2, RDS, Aurora), Terraform
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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.