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.

• 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!

ClayDR Manager (Sales Development Manager)

Our ClayDRs (SDRs) are the front line: sales professionals who turn high-volume demand into qualified pipeline and great first impressions of Clay. Were still early in building our outbound motion and believe this team is going to shape the arc of Clays growth story.

As their manager youll lead a team of ClayDRs out of our NYC office. This is a player-coach role. Youre in the calls in the pipeline reviews and in the weeds on whats working and what isnt. Youll own how we run outbound at Clay and represent the SDR function to sales leadership.

What Youll Do

• Coach in real time. Run call reviews join live calls workshop messaging. You set the standard by doing the work not reviewing it from a dashboard.

• Own pipeline generation. Youre accountable for outbound and inbound qualification pipeline quality and the handoff to AEs.

• Represent the ClayDR function to sales leadership. Bring visibility into pipeline health outbound performance and what your team is learning from the market.

• Develop your people. Define what great looks like at every stage build progression paths and invest in the growth of each rep on your team.

• Shape how Clay does outbound. Push your team to prospect creatively using Clay workflows signals and enrichment. Bring a point of view on what modern top-of-funnel looks like.

What Youll Bring

• 5 years in GTM roles with 2 years managing SDR/BDR teams.

• You coach by doing. Youve been in the calls not just the dashboards.

• Credibility with sales leadership. You speak to pipeline performance and market signal in a way that earns trust.

• Familiarity with modern GTM tooling and real curiosity about AI-driven prospecting.

• A builder mentality. You want to shape how this team operates not inherit a playbook.

• Enthusiasm for building an in-office ClayDR culture. Our team is in 5 days a week.

Required Experience:

Manager