Engineering Manager
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About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. Were already helping over 100000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. Were looking for sharp lowego people to help us turn every businesss creative ideas into a reality. Read this article to see why Clay is an amazing place to work and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.
Why is Clay the best place to work in New York
Customers love the product 100K users and growing)
Were growing a lot 6x YoY last year and 10x YoY the two years before that)
Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
Inperson work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)
Wellresourced (raised a Series B expansion in January 2025 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)
Engineering Manager @ Clay
As a Software Engineering Manager you will lead and grow a highperforming engineering team as Clay scales through rapid growth. Youll take ownership of the teams mission and objectives ensuring the team delivers highquality solutions on time to Clays most pressing challenges. Youll foster an engaged motivated and collaborative team culture while supporting the growth and development of each team member. Youll work crossfunctionally with product design support and other engineering teams to help scale and improve our product. Therell be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.
What Youll Do
Defining team purpose and areas of ownership. Youll ensure goals are well understood and internalized. Youll also introduce principles and frameworks for your team to be able to make daytoday prioritization decisions independently.
Planning prioritization and staffing. Youll set and update the team roadmap (in collaboration with PMs). Youll also allocate team members to work determining who works on what and when.
Building and maintaining the team culture. Youll build and grow a team that works well together and is motivated. Youll support team members in achieving their career goals.
Hiring and onboarding top engineering talent. Youll actively recruit interview and onboard engineers ensuring new hires ramp up quickly and contribute effectively.
Contributing to engineering wide initiatives. As an Engineering Manager youll contribute to and lead initiatives that enhance engineering excellence and scalability across the organization.
Owning the outcomes for your team. Youll introduce processes to get the important work done smoothly and keep folks accountable. Youll interface with the rest of the organization on behalf of the team.
What Youll Bring
You have 2 years of management experience and 6 years of overall software development experience. Youve managed and coached 3 direct reports for growth and success in a fast paced environment. You have a track record of building scalable highperformance 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.
Youre 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
Life @ Clay
Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattans Flatiron District. We love the energy of inperson collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.
Competitive salary and role trajectory: Roles responsibilities and comp grow as we do
Health insurance: Fully funded high quality health dental & vision coverage (including 80100 therapy coverage)
Visa sponsorship: We get it its an arduous process but were not scared of it
Paid time off: We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fullydisconnected per year with a flexible vacation policy beyond that
Free food: Free meals in office every day and unlimited snacks
Parental leave & fertility support: IVF fertility benefits egg freezing and 4 months of paid parental leave
Learn more about Clay and what its like to work with us right here!
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
