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Exceptional opportunity for an accomplished leader to join Klaviyo's Senior Leadership Team as the strategic marketing visionary.
Are you a results-driven marketing executive with a track record of success in driving transformative marketing strategies that create demand? Do you have experience building and leading teams to support APAC regional growth, whilst working for a high growth, dynamic technology business? If so, we invite you to apply for this exciting role as** Senior Director, Marketing (APAC)** at Klaviyo, a global industry SaaS leader.
Why This Role:
As the Senior Director, Marketing (APAC), you will hold a pivotal and critical position in our rapid expansion journey. Reporting directly to our Chief Marketing Officer in the US, and working closely with the Vice President & Managing Director APAC, you will shape the future of our brand across the Asia-Pacific region utilising your extensive experience in the region and strategic acumen. You will be an expert at partnering cross functionally and be used to operating in a fast paced, matrixed environment.
Key Leadership Responsibilities:
- Strategic Mastery:
- Financial Stewardship:
- Data-Driven Insights:
- Team Leadership Excellence:
- Strategic Alignment with Sales:
- Content Leadership:
- Campaign Innovation:
- Compelling Brand Positioning:
- Event Mastery:
- Customer Marketing Expertise:
- Global Collaboration Excellence:
- Technology Orchestration:
- Performance Measurement Proficiency:
Your Profile:
Essentials:
- 15+ years of demonstrated experience in B2B marketing with scaled or scaling SaaS companies.
- Proven ability to drive lead generation and customer expansion at scale in B2B SaaS products within the APAC region, including Japan.
- Strong track record of growing, leading and developing high-performance marketing teams.
- Ability to utilise data and insights to craft a comprehensive story relevant to the targeted customer segment (Enterprise, Mid Market and Commercial), with a focus on a full funnel approach throughout the customer journey
- Demonstrated experience with and understanding of nuances of the region; country by country.
- Adept at thriving within a complex matrix environment, managing cross functional relationships and stakeholders and reporting into the US.
- Successful history of expanding into new countries or territories.
- Eligibility to work in Australia without restriction.
Desirables:
- Educational background in a marketing-related field.
- Deep understanding of enterprise marketing, combined with commercial and mid-market expertise.
- Additional language proficiency.
Klaviyo in APAC:
We are starting small but have big plans for Klaviyo in APAC. Our Sydney team began to take shape throughout 2022 and has now built out our go to market teams in sales, customer success, partnerships, marketing, recruiting and product support. As the team grows we will see a continued expansion of Klaviyo’s customer base and the building of a fantastic working culture in line with what we see elsewhere in Klaviyo but with its own local identity within our Sydney based team. This is your unique opportunity to join us at an very early stage and help to shape our future Klaviyo in APAC.
One of our values as a company is ‘always learning’ and you can feel that in APAC. People are looking to grow and develop and Klaviyo provides a great platform to do so. As we are still relatively early in our journey in APAC this means there is a lot of headroom to grow and develop within your role - we are looking for the leaders of the future. At Klaviyo generally managers are often promoted up into their roles and people are regularly being promoted or moving into new functional areas - it really is an education through experience here.
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Our salary range reflects the cost of labour in the country where the job post is advertised. 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 in Local Currency:
$264,000—$396,000 AUD
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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