Recruiting Science

About Clay

Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow  — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re already helping over 100,000 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.
We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha—a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha.

Why is Clay the best place to work in New York?

• Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)

• We’re growing a lot (6x YoY last year, and 10x YoY the two years before that)

• Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)

• In-person work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)

• Well-resourced (raised a Series B expansion in January 2025 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)

Read more about why people love working at Clay here and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.

Recruiting Operations Excellence @ Clay

We're looking for an individual who is equally passionate about people and operations. Co-Founders Kareem and Varun want recruiting at Clay to feel like magic. Help us maintain a high hiring bar, ensure recruiting runs smoothly, and provide an exceptional candidate experience to anyone who steps through Clay’s doors. As our first operations hire dedicated to recruiting, you’ll shape our hiring function — building systems and processes to support hiring 100 people this year, training and certifying 30+ employees interviewers, and ensuring everything runs effortlessly. You'll be expected to do whatever is needed to help the team achieve their goals, including occasionally recruiting candidates yourself.

What You'll Do

• Every candidate leaves their Clay interview with a sense of wonder — an experience so seamless, engaging, and inspiring that it feels truly magical

• Build and Scale Recruiting Systems to enable Clay to hire 100+ people this year

• Treat recruiting data like sales data — track volume, conversion rates, and funnel movement. Set up and maintain reporting to proactively surface insights, drive efficiency, and improve hiring outcomes.

• Raise the Hiring Bar – Maintain and elevate the quality of hires. Develop creative, scaleable sourcing strategies to find high-quality, unique candidates and scale Clay’s approach to world-class hiring.

• Ensure anyone interviewing at Clay is “certified” – Establish and maintain an official training and coaching program for interviewers.

• Be a Trusted People & Ops Partner – Bring a passion for the people-side + operations, working cross-functionally to ensure a seamless hiring process. Design for scale, leveraging automation and AI to optimize knowledge sharing and operational efficiency.

Your work will directly impact Clay’s growth. Without people, we cannot grow.

What You'll Bring

• 4+ years of experience in an operations role, with a track record of building and optimizing systems at a high-growth startup.

• Passion for people & operations – You care deeply about building efficient systems that improve both hiring processes and team dynamics. You’re energized by the intersection of people and operations.

• Data-driven decision-making – You treat recruiting and ops data like sales data, leveraging volume, conversion rates, and funnel metrics to drive measurable improvements. You know how to set up and maintain dashboards to track performance.

• Bias for action – You thrive in 0 → 1 environments, taking ownership and moving quickly. You identify problems, design solutions, and execute without waiting for direction.

• Operational experience – You’ve worked in an ops role before and understand how to build and optimize processes for scale.

Life @ Clay 

Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District. We love the energy of in-person 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 options. Options include a health plan that covers up to 70–80% of out-of-network therapy costs after a deductible is met.

• Visa sponsorship: We get it - it's an arduous process, but we're not scared of it.

• Paid time off: We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fully-disconnected 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 it’s like to work with us right here!