Strategic Forecasting Engineer — Revenue & COGS

Klaviyo; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Sign-on payments

Health & welfare benefits

Job summary

Klaviyo is seeking a Lead Strategic Finance & Analytics Engineer to build and maintain forecasting models that connect customer usage to revenue and cost of goods sold. You will lead production-grade forecasting systems, collaborating with FP&A, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to drive planning, pricing, and margin insights.

The role blends data science, finance, and data engineering with an emphasis on recognized revenue forecasting and gradually expanding to COGS, including

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics engineering, strategic finance, or a related quantitative field.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying forecasting models in production.
• Strong foundations in statistics and time series forecasting.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python or R, with familiarity with dbt.
• Experience with cloud data platforms.
• Experience with revenue, pricing, usage-based, or subscription data.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business questions into well-defined analytical approaches, success metrics, and clear recommendations.
• Technical leadership demonstrated by setting direction on complex projects and influencing standards.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain forecasting models for recognized revenue and COGS across multiple time horizons.
• Connect product workloads to unit economics by linking usage drivers to revenue and costs.
• Develop scalable forecasting systems and end-to-end models with clear evaluation standards.
• Collaborate with FP&A, Product, Engineering, Data Science and GTM to align forecasting with planning.
• Communicate modeling decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

dbt

Forecasting

Time series

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Engineering or related field

Tools

dbt

Cloud data platforms

Job description

Klaviyo is seeking a Lead Strategic Finance & Analytics Engineer to build and maintain forecasting models that connect customer usage to revenue and cost of goods sold. You will lead production-grade forecasting systems, collaborating with FP&A, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to drive planning, pricing, and margin insights.

The role blends data science, finance, and data engineering with an emphasis on recognized revenue forecasting and gradually expanding to COGS, including