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Lead Product Manager, Data Management/Governance
As Klaviyo continues to expand its data platform and invest in AI-driven capabilities, the ability to manage, govern, and structure data effectively becomes increasingly important. The Data Management and Governance team plays a foundational role in ensuring that teams across the company can build reliable products, analytics, and AI systems on top of trusted data.
In this role, you will help shape the systems that define how data is managed across the platform, enabling teams to move faster while maintaining the quality, reliability, and governance required to operate at scale.
About the Team
The Data Management and Governance team is responsible for building the foundational systems that ensure Klaviyo’s data is reliable, discoverable, and trusted across the platform. As Klaviyo continues to scale its data ecosystem and invest in AI-powered capabilities, strong governance and data management infrastructure are critical to enabling teams to build intelligent, data-driven products.
This team focuses on creating the frameworks, tooling, and standards that support how data is structured, modeled, and accessed across the organization. This includes investments in areas such as data governance, metadata management, semantic layers, and data discoverability, ensuring that teams can confidently build analytics, automation, and AI-powered experiences on top of high-quality data.
Sitting at the intersection of data platform, analytics infrastructure, and AI, the team partners closely with engineering, data, and product teams to design systems that scale with Klaviyo’s growing data needs.
The Role
We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager to drive the strategy and execution for Klaviyo’s Data Management and Governance capabilities. In this role, you will define how data is structured, governed, and made accessible across the platform to support internal teams and customer-facing products.
You’ll work closely with engineering, data platform teams, and AI/ML teams to design scalable systems that support reliable data usage across the company. This includes evaluating build vs. buy decisions for key infrastructure components, developing semantic data layers, and improving the ways teams discover and interact with data.
This role is ideal for a product leader with strong systems thinking who enjoys solving complex platform problems and building foundational infrastructure that unlocks innovation across the organization.
What You’ll Do
- Define and own the product vision and roadmap for Klaviyo’s data management and governance capabilities.
- Partner closely with engineering and data platform teams to design scalable systems for data governance, metadata management, lineage, and data quality.
- Drive the development of semantic data layers and modeling frameworks that simplify how teams interact with complex data systems.
- Evaluate and lead build vs. buy decisions for components of the data management stack.
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to ensure data systems support emerging AI-powered and agent-based capabilities.
- Define and track success metrics around data quality, governance adoption, discoverability, and platform reliability.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve how data is structured, documented, and accessed across the organization.
- Communicate product strategy, tradeoffs, and technical decisions clearly across engineering, leadership, and cross-functional partners.
Who You Are
- 7–10+ years of product management experience, with meaningful experience building data platforms, infrastructure products, or data tooling.
- Strong technical depth with the ability to work closely with engineers on system design and architecture decisions.
- Experience working with data governance frameworks, metadata systems, semantic layers, or analytics infrastructure.
- Comfortable operating in highly technical environments involving large-scale data systems or AI/ML platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to define clear metrics, KPIs, and system performance indicators.
- Experience evaluating build vs. buy decisions for complex infrastructure products.
- Excellent cross-functional communicator who can align engineering, data, and product stakeholders around a shared strategy.
- An engineering or technical background is highly valued but not required.
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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.
Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Base Pay Range For US Locations:
$168,000—$252,000 USD
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.
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.
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