Engineering Manager
Clay
Engineering Manager at Clay is a full time role based in Remote · New York, NY, United States (remote). The listing states pay of $175k–$300k. It was published on 18 June 2025 and was open at last check.
| Role | Engineering Manager |
|---|---|
| Company | Clay |
| Location | Remote · New York, NY, United States (remote) |
| Employment type | Full Time |
| Pay (as listed) | $175k–$300k |
| Published | 18 June 2025 |
| Status | Open at last check |
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. We're 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 11,000+ 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!
Engineering Manager @ Clay
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering team as Clay scales through rapid growth. You'll take ownership of the team's mission and objectives, ensuring the team delivers high-quality solutions on time to Clay's most pressing challenges. You'll foster an engaged, motivated, and collaborative team culture while supporting the growth and development of each team member. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, design, support, and other engineering teams to help scale and improve our product. There’ll be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.
What You’ll Do
- Defining team purpose and areas of ownership. You’ll ensure goals are well understood and internalized. You’ll also introduce principles and frameworks for your team to be able to make day-to-day prioritization decisions independently.
- Planning, prioritization and staffing. You’ll set and update the team roadmap (in collaboration with PMs). You’ll also allocate team members to work — determining who works on what and when.
- Building and maintaining the team culture. You’ll build and grow a team that works well together and is motivated. You’ll support team members in achieving their career goals.
- Hiring and onboarding top engineering talent. You’ll actively recruit, interview, and onboard engineers, ensuring new hires ramp up quickly and contribute effectively.
- Contributing to engineering wide initiatives. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll contribute to and lead initiatives that enhance engineering excellence and scalability across the organization.
- Owning the outcomes for your team. You’ll introduce processes to get the important work done smoothly, and keep folks accountable. You’ll interface with the rest of the organization on behalf of the team.
What You'll Bring
- You have 2+ years of management experience and 6+ years of overall software development experience. You’ve managed and coached 3+ direct reports for growth and success in a fast paced environment. You have a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems with a strong focus on customer delight and user experience.
- You are an empathetic communicator. You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements, you prioritize curiosity over confrontation, making sure everyone feels heard and understood.
- You’re familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is: React, Typescript, Python, Node.js
- AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
- IaC: Terraform
- Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
- Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
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Engineering Manager at Clay — questions answered
What does the Engineering Manager role at Clay pay?
The Engineering Manager at Clay listing states pay of $175k–$300k for the Remote · New York, NY, United States (remote) position. That figure is taken directly from the employer's own posting as published, not estimated or averaged from other roles.
Is the Engineering Manager role at Clay remote?
Yes — Clay advertises this Engineering Manager role as remote, tied to Remote · New York, NY, United States, and it is listed as full time work. Remote terms come from the employer's own posting, so confirm the expected working hours, timezone and any on-site days with Clay before you apply.
Is the Engineering Manager role at Clay still open?
The Engineering Manager posting at Clay was open at OnJob's last check of the employer's careers page, having been published on 18 June 2025. OnJob re-checks source listings on each build and marks a role closed once it disappears, but listings can close without notice, so the employer's own page is the final word.
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