Lead Product Manager, Data Management

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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 Klaviyos 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 Klaviyos growing data needs.

The Role

Were looking for a Lead Product Manager to drive the strategy and execution for Klaviyos Data Management and Governance this role you will define how data is structured governed and made accessible across the platform to support internal teams and customer-facing products.

Youll 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 Youll Do

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap for Klaviyos 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

• 710 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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