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About the team and role:
We are seeking a Senior Manager of R&D Finance to partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and GTS leadership. This role will lead financial planning, investment analysis, and operational support for our R&D organization, ensuring we scale innovation responsibly and efficiently.
You will play a critical role in aligning product strategy with financial rigor and long-term value creation.
How you'll make a difference:
Strategic Partnership with R&D business partners- Serve as a key finance partner to Engineering, Product, and GTS leadership.
- Translate product strategy and roadmap decisions into clear financial implications.
- Provide insight into headcount planning, capitalized software, and long-term investment strategy.
- Support trade-off decisions between speed, cost, and innovation.
Planning & Forecasting
- Lead annual planning and quarterly forecasting for R&D headcount and expenses.
- Develop detailed headcount models aligned with product roadmaps and hiring plans.
- Ensure accurate forecasting of compensation, infrastructure, tooling, and vendor spend.
- Drive discipline and transparency around R&D investments.
- Build business cases for major product initiatives and platform investments.
- Evaluate ROI of engineering investments and infrastructure decisions.
- Support build vs. buy decisions and strategic vendor evaluations.
- Analyze cloud spend efficiency and infrastructure cost optimization.
Operational Excellence
- Improve financial visibility into engineering productivity and cost efficiency.
- Partner with Accounting on capitalization policies and compliance.
- Implement reporting frameworks that align financial and product performance metrics.
- Drive process improvements to enable scalable R&D operations.
Team Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop finance team members supporting R&D.
- Strengthen cross-functional collaboration between Finance, Product, Engineering, and Accounting.
- Performs other related duties, as assigned.
Who you are:
- 10+ years of experience in Finance roles, such as investment banking, venture capital including significant operational experience within FP&A or Finance at software companies with SaaS business model
- At least 2+ years of experience being a people leader
- A proactive finance leader who enjoys partnering with technical stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented but able to think strategically about long-term investment tradeoffs.
- Strong communicator who can translate financial concepts for non-financial audiences.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and influencing cross-functional leaders.
- Passionate about innovation and scaling technology organizations.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, Pigment, and Netsuite
- You’ve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects, and you’re excited to dive in and learn fast. You’re hungry to responsibly explore new AI tools and workflows, finding ways to make your work smarter and more efficient.
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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.
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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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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