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VP, Product Design

Company: Klaviyo Inc.
Location: Boston
Posted on: October 18, 2024

Job Description:

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you're a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you'll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit careers.klaviyo.com to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.The VP of Product Design at Klaviyo will help uplevel, evolve, and optimize the future of simple, elegant, and industry-changing e-commerce software. This role includes oversight of Product Design as well as any new lines of work or business we cultivate in the future. In addition to growing our already-successful e-commerce platform and products, this instrumental leader will help transform Klaviyo into a top design-led company through cultural, innovative, and operational excellence.Please note that this role is located in Boston and requires an onsite component of 3x/week. Fully remote candidates will not be considered at this time.How you'll make a difference:

  • Lead and Inspire Design Teams: Lead a team of experienced product designers, writers, and content designers to execute on company goals. Ensure your teams have the capability, capacity, and clarity to achieve their objectives. Be willing to roll up your sleeves and creatively direct as necessary to maintain high-quality standards.
  • Mentorship and Performance Management: Mentor and manage a world-class team, establishing clear standards for performance and quality. Create a learning environment where designers can grow, expand their skill sets, and develop new techniques and tools. Flexibly allocate resources and manage bandwidth within a lean team.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with leaders across product, engineering, brand design, content, customer experience, and sales to ship impactful, high-quality products. Foster strong collaboration with Product Management and Engineering to meet deadlines and deliver quality outcomes.
  • Vision and Strategy: As a member of the leadership team, articulate Klaviyo's product vision and strategy through design. Translate long-term vision and roadmaps into actionable timelines, considering the business' long-term strategy when solving problems.
  • Strategic Resource Planning: Leverage successful strategies for organizational planning and approaches to strengthen team capacity. Manage team/headcount optimization and resource allocation effectively.
  • Quality Assurance and Design Excellence: Uphold a high product quality bar and a strong eye for visual design. Develop the vision and strategy for design excellence at Klaviyo operationally, culturally, and executionally. Ensure consistency with and contribute to our brand architecture, product architecture, and design language systems.
  • Human-Centered Design Practices: Utilize in-depth knowledge of human-centered design practices, research methodologies, and design tools to drive impactful product designs.
  • Organizational Guidance and Change Management: Guide others and navigate the organization to deliver high-quality results. Lead org design and change management efforts that support efficient execution and quality people leadership.
  • Design Storytelling and Communication: Use exceptional presentation and communication skills to leverage design storytelling and drive alignment with the executive team. Solicit and implement feedback to improve communication and inclusivity across your team.
  • Enhance Brand and Product Perception: Create experiences to support acquisition, onboarding, and management while ensuring quality and consistency with overall product and brand architecture. Enhance the overall brand and perception of Klaviyo's offerings.Who you are:
    • 15+ years of experience across Product Design, or related field; having both would be an added bonus, though this role will provide the most lift on the Product Design side
    • Experience across diverse types of design environments (i.e: agencies, startups, in-house companies at scale, etc.)
    • Experience with org design, change management, strategic resource planning, team/headcount optimization, and allocation of resources. (i.e: University, New Grad, Individual Contributors, and Leadership)
    • Portfolio of work showcasing attention to detail and high-quality execution
    • Ability to thrive within an organization that moves quickly and with a degree of ambiguity.
    • Preferred: Experience speaking on and evangelizing design work at highly visible design events, conferences and/or schoolsThe pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation and hourly non-exempt roles are eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law. This role is eligible for benefits, including: medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), flexible paid time off and company-paid holidays and a culture of learning that includes a learning allowance and access to a professional coaching service for all employees.Base Pay Range For US Locations:$300,000 - $400,000 USDGet 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.Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. 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, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Keywords: Klaviyo Inc., Pawtucket , VP, Product Design, Executive , Boston, Rhode Island

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