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Senior Manager, Partner Sales

Klaviyo · San Francisco, CA

Same role, also open in Denver, CO, Boston, MA

Base
$140K–$210K
OTE
Not disclosed
Posted
6mo ago

Still open · checked 2h agoon Klaviyo's careers page

What Klaviyo sells

Marketing software to help online stores grow

An online store needs to grow its sales, but reaching the right customers takes work. Klaviyo's software helps these businesses with their marketing, and agencies use it to help their own clients grow. Sales reps show each buyer how it can pay off.

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The Braun Read

Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay
Base is listed but not OTE. Ask what the variable is and how many people hit it.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Pipeline
Doesn't say where pipeline comes from. Ask.
Time on market
Open 193 days. Ask why it's been hard to fill.
Company hiring
28 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace. Ask how many reps they hired last year and how many are still there.

Red lights

None spotted.

Yellow lights

  • Open 90+ days. This role has been posted for three months or more. Ask why it's been hard to fill, and whether anyone left it.

Green lights

None spotted.

Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    This role has been open a while. What's made it hard to fill?

    The answer tells you what candidates saw that made them walk.

  2. 2.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  3. 3.

    What's the OTE, and what did the median rep earn last year?

    Base is what you're guaranteed. OTE and the median show the upside.

  4. 4.

    What's the annual quota, and how was it set?

    A quota built from real data is a target. Otherwise it's a hope.

  5. 5.

    Where does pipeline come from: inbound, SDRs, or me?

    Tells you how much of your week is prospecting versus selling.

  6. 6.

    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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The role

Manage a team of Partner Account Managers who recruit, train, and enable agency partners to sell Klaviyo to mid-enterprise and enterprise brands. Focus on co-selling, lead referrals, and new business goals.

Mid-Market · Partnerships

Selling motion

Channel

Who you're selling to

Buyer:
Agency partnersIn their words: “to meet and develop relationships with our agency partners, team members and participate in events”
Company size:
Mid-Market

Pipeline expectations

Not stated in the posting.

Compensation

$140K–$210K base

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

  • OTE
  • Quota size
  • Quota attainment
  • Average deal size
  • Territory
  • Sales cycle length

The questions above cover the big ones.

Full posting
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. At Klaviyo, the partnerships team prides themselves on being marketing and product experts. As a Senior Manager, Mid-Enterprise PAMs, you will oversee a team of Partner Account Managers, ensuring they are set up for success to achieve their goals. These goals will also be met by working on a variety of initiatives that ultimately will benefit the ongoing partner experience. This includes, but is not limited to overseeing and iterating on our partner engagement model, aligning with our Partner Marketing team, and driving revenue. You will leverage strong communication and consultative skills to understand your team's needs and establish a growth strategy so that your team is able to hit various goals presented to them. The Senior Manager, Mid-Enterprise Partner Account Managers recruits, trains, develops and supports experienced Partner Managers working within the Mid-Enterprise and enterprise segment to ensure that they meet specific new business goals on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis. Responsible for training and developing their direct reports, while also being on top of the forecast and important leading indicators of success. In this role you are responsible for enabling your team to manage Klaviyo partners, and ensure they are articulating the value of Klaviyo, differentiating Klaviyo from other solutions, managing business development opportunities (and co-selling) with their partners, driving co-marketing alongside the ecosystem marketing team, and ensuring they are acting as a thought leaders in their space. How you’ll make a difference: - Become a trusted management advisor that your team can lean on regularly - Become a fierce internal advocate of the partner program to ensure our team is interlocked with other departments in order to achieve our goals - Collaborate with your team to enable them to activate new agency partners by building and managing a lead referral pipeline with your partner portfolio - Be comfortable operating with and exceeding revenue-focused goals at the team level - Bring your creative thinking, strategies, and ideas to advance Klaviyo’s values, build our culture, and execute on our vision for the future - Take part in owning projects which will in turn allow you to collaborate with a highly driven team to ensure success in attaining company wide goals, initiatives and maintaining focus on revenue production - Manage new and existing team members to ensure success across the entirety of the Agency Partnerships managed program - Travel: up to 25%, to meet and develop relationships with our agency partners, team members and participate in events Who you are: - Have 6+ years of relationship building experience that you can share with your team and showcase that you are adept at influencing and relationship building - Management experience - Have partnerships and/or sales experience with a direct revenue target - Are thoughtful, engaging, and energetic - Are comfortable and confident teaching your team members on how to thoughtfully hunt and adding/extracting value from new partnerships - Obsessed with understanding how you can make the partnership experience more beneficial to our service partners - Extremely comfortable both operating on a team level and working with management peers to identify and solve complex problems - Comfortable presenting in large groups (both internally and externally) as you will be showcasing yourself as a thought leader in our organization and industry - Proactively solicit and act on feedback from your customers, partners, team members, and peers. - Have a positive outlook and excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Have 4-6 years of SaaS account management, channel and/or sales experience. - Work collaboratively with Sales, Enablement, CS, Marketing and Product to achieve top line company revenue goals - Bring your thinking, strategies, and ideas to advance our company’s values, unique culture, and vision for the future. #CR1 #LI-Hybrid Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. 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: $140,000-$210,000 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. 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