Klaviyo

Lead Product Manager, Core Data

Boston, MA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$168k-$252kDetected 27 days ago

Distributed SystemsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementOnboardingCustomer SuccessLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

This is a platform PM role, ideal for someone who operates comfortably at the intersection of deep architectural discussions and long-range product strategy - with a track record of driving measurable outcomes across complex, distributed systems.
You will define the vision and roadmap for how large volumes of data from diverse sources are ingested, transformed, and made reliable within Klaviyo's core systems.
Please note this role requires 5 days/week in our Boston oﬃce.

Responsibilities

Own the Roadmap: Develop and maintain a coherent, high-impact roadmap that balances foundational investments with active initiatives
Drive Ingestion Strategy: Define the strategy for ingesting large volumes of data from numerous sources
Partner with Engineering: Partner with engineering to design ingestion systems that are scalable, resilient, and maintainable
Deliver Measurable Outcomes: Establish instrumentation and success metrics (e.g., ingestion reliability, pipeline latency, data freshness, change failure rate) to validate impact and adjust priorities based on outcomes.
Champion Quality & Reliability: Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, and operational excellence for ingestion systems
partner with SRE and platform teams to ensure reliability is built into every component.
Build for Collaboration: Create transparency and open feedback loops with engineers, engineering managers, and senior leadership to ensure alignment and adoption of platform direction.
Own the Roadmap: Develop and maintain a coherent, high-impact roadmap that balances foundational investments with active initiatives; refine prioritization and sequencing across concurrent projects.
Drive Ingestion Strategy: Define the strategy for ingesting large volumes of data from numerous sources; think holistically about data movement, transformation, and reliability at scale.
Partner with Engineering: Partner with engineering to design ingestion systems that are scalable, resilient, and maintainable; navigate tradeoffs across performance, latency, cost, and reliability.

Requirements

experience with event-driven systems, high-volume ingestion pipelines, or complex data movement patterns.
ability to operate at both strategic and highly detailed technical levels.
Influential Collaborator: Proven ability to define structure and clarity in ambiguous, newly forming teams
Comfort engaging in highly technical discussions around pipelines, infrastructure, and system evolution
Proven ability to define structure and clarity in ambiguous, newly forming teams
Strategic Builder: Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Platform Product Manager in data infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platform environments - with a track record of driving velocity and reliability at scale.
Data Infrastructure Depth: Deep understanding of data architecture and large-scale systems
Technical Fluency: Comfort engaging in highly technical discussions around pipelines, infrastructure, and system evolution
AI-Forward Mindset: Understanding of the transformative potential of AI in platform engineering
ability to separate hype from practical value and drive adoption of AI-forward practices.
Metrics-Oriented: Fluency in measuring success via engineering productivity, quality, and reliability metrics
data-driven approach to prioritization and investment decisions.
skilled at stakeholder management across multiple technical organizations.
Bias for Action: Thrives in fast-moving environments
balances short-term wins with long-term strategy and biases toward automation, simplicity, and self- service solutions.

Compensation

This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events.
Travel is coordinated in advance.
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.
Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets.

Benefits

Identify and drive architectural simplifications that improve platform health over time; guide tooling choices that will keep the data ingestion platform sustainable and scalable.
We are seeking a highly technical Lead Product Manager to set the vision, strategy, and execution for our Data Ingestion Platform.
You'll shape the architecture that enables reliable, scalable data ingestion for years to come - driving platform health, reducing complexity, and unlocking innovation across the company.
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.

Company info

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day.

Equal opportunity

Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination.

Visa & Work Authorization

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

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