Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI (Customer Agent)

Boston, MA

Posted$176K to $264Kfirst seen Jul 23, 2026updated Sep 11, 2026

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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 klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny. Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI (Customer Agent) Are you looking for one of the most impactful AI-native leadership roles in Boston? Join us at Klaviyo and lead the team building Customer Agent, a conversational AI system that enables brands to interact with their customers at a scale they have never achieved before. Customer Agent is central to Klaviyo’s vision for AI-powered customer engagement. It delivers real-time, contextually aware conversations that help brands support, convert, and retain millions of consumers. We are just beginning to unlock what is possible, and we are looking for an engineering leader who is eager to define that future. We're past the demo stage: the team ships changes against live customer traffic, measures quality with real evaluation frameworks, and treats reliability as a product feature, not an afterthought.

About the Role:

As Senior Engineering Manager, you'll own the team building Customer Agent from the ground up. This isn't a pure people-management seat: we need someone who genuinely enjoys developing people and building a team, and is equally comfortable writing and shipping code, reviewing architecture, and debugging production issues themselves. You'll partner with product, data science, and go-to-market leaders to turn ambiguous customer problems into a reliable, extensible agent platform, and you'll be judged on outcomes: agent quality, reliability, and the business impact of what your team ships.

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How You Will Make an Impact:

Stay hands-on with the technology: write and ship code when it matters, review architecture, unblock hard technical problems, and make the call on reliability trade-offs yourself. Guide system design for orchestration, evaluation, and guardrail systems that keep autonomous agent behavior safe and trustworthy at scale. Own your team's mission, strategy, and roadmap, and directly manage some workstreams yourself. Manage and grow a team of full-stack and AI engineers, including hiring, leveling, and career development. Both give and receive meaningful feedback focusing on empathy, curiosity, and investment in growth. Partner with product, data science, and go-to-market teams to translate customer needs into a technical roadmap.

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$176,000 — $264,000 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. AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop). We provide accommodations as needed. By participating in Klaviyo’s interview process, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and will adhere to our Guidelines for using AI in the Klaviyo interview Process . For more information about how we process your personal data, see our Job Applicant Privacy Notice . 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. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@klaviyo.com), instant messaging platforms, or unsolicited calls. By clicking "Submit Application" you consent to Klaviyo processing your Personal Data in accordance with our Job Applicant Privacy Notice. If you do not wish for Klaviyo to process your Personal Data, please do not submit an application. You can find our Job Applicant Privacy Notice here and here (FR).

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