Engineering Manager

About Clay Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality. We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula. Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue. In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round , for our customers, agency partners, and club members. Some things to know about us: Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs , and 30k members on Slack. Our culture is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more. All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more. Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here . Read about us in the NYT , Forbes , First Round Review , and more . Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page! Engineering Manager @ Clay As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering team as Clay scales through rapid growth. You'll take ownership of the team's mission and objectives, ensuring the team delivers high-quality solutions on time to Clay's most pressing challenges. You'll foster an engaged, motivated, and collaborative team culture while supporting the growth and development of each team member. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, design, support, and other engineering teams to help scale and improve our product. There’ll be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve. What You’ll Do Defining team purpose and areas of ownership. You’ll ensure goals are well understood and internalized. You’ll also introduce principles and frameworks for your team to be able to make day-to-day prioritization decisions independently. Planning, prioritization and staffing. You’ll set and update the team roadmap (in collaboration with PMs). You’ll also allocate team members to work — determining who works on what and when. Building and maintaining the team culture. You’ll build and grow a team that works well together and is motivated. You’ll support team members in achieving their career goals. Hiring and onboarding top engineering talent. You’ll actively recruit, interview, and onboard engineers, ensuring new hires ramp up quickly and contribute effectively. Contributing to engineering wide initiatives. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll contribute to and lead initiatives that enhance engineering excellence and scalability across the organization. Owning the outcomes for your team. You’ll introduce processes to get the important work done smoothly, and keep folks accountable. You’ll interface with the rest of the organization on behalf of the team. What You'll Bring You have 2+ years of management experience and 6+ years of overall software development experience. You’ve managed and coached 3+ direct reports for growth and success in a fast paced environment. You have a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems with a strong focus on customer delight and user experience. You are an empathetic communicator.  You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements, you prioritize curiosity over confrontation, making sure everyone feels heard and understood. You’re familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.  Our current tech stack is: React, Typescript, Python, Node.js AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch IaC: Terraform Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo

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