Lead Product Manager, Developer Experience

Lead Product Manager, Developer Experience

Klaviyo is on a mission to build a world-class, AI-first engineering organization. To do this, we're looking for a Lead Product Manager of Developer Experience who will craft and drive the vision for our internal development environment. In this role, you'll treat developers as your customers — making their daily workflows faster, safer, and more joyful. Your work will directly impact how quickly and confidently Klaviyo engineers can build, test, and release high-quality products.

In this role, you'll partner deeply with Engineering leaders across Developer Infra, SRE, and product teams to shape how Klaviyo develops software. Your focus will be on outcomes: enabling faster cycle times, reducing incidents, leveraging AI to automate toil, and making Klaviyo a magnet for top engineering talent. Please note this role requires 5 days/week in our Boston office.

What You'll Do:

• Set the Vision: Define the product strategy for Klaviyo's developer environment, aligning to our Need for Speed program — targeting massive improvements in engineering velocity, developer experience, and quality.
• Make Developers Your Customers: Treat Klaviyo engineers as the primary stakeholders. Identify pain points across the PDLC (coding, testing, deployment, maintenance) and prioritize investments that meaningfully improve their productivity and happiness.
• Accelerate with AI: Institutionalize AI as a force multiplier — from autonomous code agents to AI copilots for reviews and testing. Ensure Klaviyo leads in adopting AI-first development practices, reducing friction without compromising safety.
• Deliver Measurable Outcomes: Drive success metrics such as PR throughput, cycle time, change failure rate, developer experience index, and AI tool adoption.
• Champion Quality & Safety: Partner with SRE and QE to ensure reliability and safety are built into every paved path — incidents and defects decrease even as velocity increases.
• Scale for the Future: Guide architecture and tooling choices that will keep Klaviyo's developer experience sustainable and scalable for years to come.
• Be Data-Driven: Establish instrumentation, run surveys, and analyze metrics to continuously validate impact and adjust based on outcomes, not assumptions.
• Build for Collaboration: Create transparency and open feedback loops with engineers, EMs, and leadership to ensure alignment and adoption of developer tooling and practices.

Who You Are:

• Strategic Builder: You're an Engineering leader turned Product think or Founder. Or you've led product for developer platforms, infrastructure, or tools, with a track record of improving engineering velocity and reliability.
• Developer-Centric Thinker: You deeply empathize with engineers and have experience making their workflows easier, faster, and safer.
• AI-Forward Mindset: You understand the transformative potential of AI in software development and can separate hype from practical value.
• Metrics-Oriented: You are fluent in measuring success via engineering productivity, quality, and reliability metrics (e.g., PR throughput, CFR, incident rates, DevEx indices).
• Influential Collaborator: You can partner with senior engineering leaders (Infra, SRE, QE, product teams) and influence without authority.
• Bias for Action: You thrive in fast-moving environments, balance short-term wins with long-term strategy, and bias toward automation and self-service.

Success in This Role Looks Like:

• Klaviyo engineers feel they can deliver faster, safer, and with higher confidence than ever before.
• AI tools are seamlessly integrated into workflows, with widespread adoption and measurable productivity gains.
• Development cycle times shrink, while incidents, defect escapes, and change failure rates decrease.
• Developers rank Klaviyo's internal tooling and environment as best-in-class, making it a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
• The Dev Infra & SRE product strategy is clear, measurable, and directly tied to Klaviyo's ability to deliver customer value quickly and reliably.

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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.

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