Technical Partnerships Engineer
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!
Data Partnerships @ Clay
Were looking for a Technical Partnerships Engineer to join our Data and Integration Partnerships this role youll be the technical backbone of our partner ecosystemowning the end-to-end lifecycle of data provider and platform integrations from scoping and building to launching and optimizing.
A core part of this role is data quality and evaluation: building the frameworks and processes to rigorously test benchmark and monitor our data providers. Youll help us answer critical questions like Which provider has the best email coverage for SMB and Is this new enrichment source worth adding
Youll work directly with partners like Salesforce HubSpot Slack and dozens of data enrichment providers to bring new capabilities to Clays customers. This is a high-impact cross-functional role where youll collaborate with Product Engineering Go-to-Market and external partner teams.
What youll do:
Integration Development & Maintenance
Write clean well-documented code (primarily TypeScript/) for API integrations
Troubleshoot and resolve integration issues working closely with partner technical teams
Monitor integration health performance and data quality
Data Testing & Evaluation
Build and maintain testing frameworks to evaluate data provider quality accuracy and coverage
Design benchmarking methodologies to compare providers across key dimensions (fill rates accuracy freshness cost-efficiency)
Run structured evaluations when onboarding new data providers or renegotiating existing partnerships
Create dashboards and reporting to track provider performance over time
Partner with Product and Engineering to establish data quality standards and SLAs
Identify gaps in our data coverage and recommend providers or solutions to fill them
Partner Technical Enablement
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic partners
Lead technical discovery calls and scoping sessions with prospective partners
Create technical documentation implementation guides and best practices for partners
Support partner developers building on Clays platform
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Product and Engineering to inform roadmap priorities based on partner and customer feedback
Work with GTM teams to enable sales motions around new integrations
Contribute to internal tooling that improves partner onboarding and integration management
Ecosystem Growth
Evaluate new data providers and integration opportunities
Prototype and validate new integration concepts quickly
Stay current on the data enrichment and sales tech landscape
What youll bring:
3 years of experience in a technical role (software engineering solutions engineering technical partnerships or similar)
Strong programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript; experience with
Deep familiarity with REST APIs OAuth webhooks and integration patterns
Experience working with third-party APIs and navigating partner technical documentation
Comfort with data analysisable to write SQL build dashboards and draw insights from messy datasets
Excellent written and verbal communicationyou can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
Self-starter mentality; comfortable with ambiguity and context-switching
Nice-to-Haves
Experience building data quality frameworks testing pipelines or evaluation methodologies
Background in data enrichment GTM tools or the broader RevTech ecosystem
Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS company
Familiarity with CRM platforms (Salesforce HubSpot) and sales/marketing tech stacks
Experience with Clay as a user or builder
Prior partnerships or business development experience
Required Experience:
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.