Chief of Staff, Marketing
New York City, NY - USA
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Job Summary
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. Were 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 11000 customers 150 integration partners 125 agencies 50 Clay clubs and 30k members on Slack.
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!
Chief of Staff Marketing @ Clay
What Youll Do
Youll act as an extension of the Head of Marketing helping turn strategy into execution across the entire function.
Youll run the operating system of the marketing team. This includes owning planning cadences shaping quarterly priorities and ensuring teams are aligned against the highest-leverage work. Youll identify gaps unblock teams and push initiatives forward without needing perfect direction.
Youll lead high-impact ambiguous projects that dont neatly fit into a single functionwhether thats launching a new growth motion improving how we connect product marketing to sales or building new internal systems for tracking performance.
Youll bring structure to chaos without hurting speed. This could mean building dashboards that actually get used improving how we track pipeline influence or creating processes that help us move faster without adding unnecessary overhead.
Youll partner closely with leaders across growth product marketing brand community and sales to ensure everything we do is cohesive and compounds over time.
What Youll Bring
Youre a builder first. You dont just recommendyou implement. Youre comfortable going from zero to one and figuring things out along the way.
You have strong business judgment and can prioritize ruthlessly. You know how to separate whats important from whats just urgent.
Youve operated in high-growth environments where things change quickly and youre comfortable navigating ambiguity without losing momentum.
Youre highly organized and detail-oriented but you dont get stuck in process. You know when to add structure and when to move fast.
Youre an excellent communicator. You can distill complex ideas into clear actionable plans and align stakeholders across different functions.
You have a strong understanding of marketingwhether across growth product marketing or brandand how it connects to revenue.
What Success Looks Like
Within your first few months the marketing team has clearer priorities tighter execution and stronger alignment across functions.
High-impact projects that were previously stuck or undefined are now moving forward with momentum.
We have better visibility into whats working whats not and where to invest next.
Most importantly marketing is driving more measurable impact on growthacross both self-serve and sales-led motions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Implement your creative growth ideas to build pipeline for your sales team. First, maximize your data coverage with 75+ enrichment tools and our AI agent. Then, use AI to craft the perfect outreach.