Data Science & Analytics Manager

AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clays mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential.

Clay predicts the next best action for your business and then helps you take it. We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies. Then we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it including emails ads landing pages and workflows that make reps more productive. Now were building agents that can help grow your company for you. Were already helping thousands of customers including Anthropic OpenAI Google and Visa go to market with unique data signals and AI research.

In 2026 we raised a $115M Series D at $7.1B Valuation led by Wellington and are on track to cross $200M in revenue this quarter. We also launched a $1M Scholarship fund for GTME Education.

Some things to know about us:

• Our community includes 17000 customers 200 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 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!

Were looking for a Data Science Manager to lead Clays Data Science and Analytics team (DSA). DSA is a team of data scientists and analytics engineers that serves as the companys center of excellence for experimentation metric design insights and data-driven decision-making across all areas of the business (Product Marketing Sales Finance and Partnerships). The manager of this team will be a key leader in setting product and business strategy: partnering with executives to meet ideas with numbers and set the internal narrative and focus using data.

The team has strong foundations and is at the forefront of AI for data: weve basically solved the self-serve analytics problem via our custom in-house AI agent Monty. Were looking for a strong leader with strong data intuition product and business acumen and data storytelling skills who can multiply this teams strategic influence on one of the fastest-growing AI businesses.

Lead and grow the team. Manage and develop data scientists and analytics engineers. Recruit interview and onboard top talent as the team scales. Create shared standards for what great data work looks like and coach the team to get there. Establish rituals that build team cohesion and support technical growth.

Set the technical bar. Hold high standards for experimentation analysis insights metric design and data modeling. Ensure that Clay remains at the forefront of the latest innovations in AI for data science and analytics.

Relentlessly focus on impact. Ensure the team is making the right tradeoffs. Keep the team focused on work that actually changes decisions and meaningfully impacts the business trajectory of Clay and leave the rest.

Strategically partner and prioritize across the business. Own staffing across partner areas to ensure every key stakeholder has the support they need while holding a high bar for impact and pushing back where needed. Ensure partners are making data-informed decisions and that they have the tooling insights and partnership they need to do so.

Shape product and business strategy. Directly inform what we prioritize using data; opportunity size new potential areas for investment and proactively identify potential new directions through analysis and insights. Set the narrative internally using numbers.

Define our key measurement frameworks. Partner with stakeholders to define our business and product goals. Lead the development and championing of key metrics; ensure our most important metrics are properly instrumented and monitored. Create a data-obsessed organization.

Develop a deep understanding of and empathy for our users. Partner with UXR and customer feedback teams to create the most comprehensive understanding of what Clay users buyers and prospects want and need.

2 years managing data scientists and/or analytics engineers and 6 years overall in data science or analytics with a track record of shipping work that has directly influenced product and business decisions

Strong technical depth in experimentation analytics statistics data modeling and metric design; can coach and set a high technical bar for senior ICs

Expertise in product or growth data science: an expert-level understanding of user funnels (acquisition activation engagement retention) in B2B or B2C products

Skilled at stakeholder management: comfortable partnering with senior leaders across Product GTM and Finance and pushing back when needed

Proven experience influencing product roadmaps via data and insights and the proven ability to connect data work to business outcomes

Excellent data storytelling skills

An empathetic communicator who expresses nuanced ideas clearly for different audiences and prioritizes curiosity and partnership

Experience growing teams: hiring coaching and developing senior ICs

Excitement about AI-native ways of working

Experience with our stack: Snowflake GitHub dbt Hex Sigma Dagster

Experience in product-led growth or B2B SaaS especially usage-based pricing

Experience running embedded/hub-and-spoke data team models

Experience scaling a data team through rapid company growth

Experience working on AI products

Data is at the heart of what we do at Clay. We are building a self-learning revenue engine; we need data leadership to understand how that engine is operating internally and for our customers. We are building a team of strategic leaders and trusted truth-tellers: come lead it!

Required Experience:

Manager