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?
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)
Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), 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.
About the Role
We are looking for a Head of Talent, who will report directly to Varun Anand, Co-founder & Head of Operations. This role will serve as the leader responsible for building and developing the strategy, design, and execution of our recruiting/talent function. The talent team today is 10 people and will be much larger in the near future.
A successful candidate will have experience building and scaling core and innovative programs to hire and measure talent success across all business areas, within a highly competitive talent market. This person will excel at both the art and science of recruiting. They will care deeply about finding and hiring the best talent and also have the ability to scale and apply operational rigor to the function as Clay rapidly grows.
Top Priorities for the Role
Scale the Company
Lead hiring efforts as we rapidly grow headcount
Build out a predictable recruiting function to help fuel hiring across the company
Ensure we are hiring not only great talent but great fits for Clay
Build a Best-in-Class Recruiting Team & Recruiting Culture
Build out the current recruiting team and lead the headcount planning, vision & strategy needed to achieve business targets
Bring on a team of talent professionals that are aligned to Clay’s culture and focused on achieving business results
Help Develop Clay into a Top Employer Brand
Help to create the strategy that will enable Clay to be one of the top startups to work for
Ensure incredible candidate experiences, enabling Clay to attract top talent across all functions of the company
Hire Amazing Talent
Bring a strategic approach to identifying, attracting and hiring great talent. Build out programs and approaches that proactively map out and nurture top talent.
Lead a team that cares deeply about talent density
Bring creative ideas and strategies to Clay that surface hard to find and non obvious talent. Build an approach where recruiters understand the strength and interests of a candidate and where they might be a great match at Clay even if not an obvious match for a role.
You Might Be a Good Fit if You Have the Following Experiences & Qualities:
Align with Clay’s Culture and Operating Principles
Have seen a best-in-class company scale a team from 200 + to 600+ in a leadership role
Have held a leadership role at a company known for having exceptionally strong talent
Experience building a strong employment brand at a top-tier company
You move with a sense of urgency
Track record of consistently delivering with quality results
Can easily partner with a wide range of organizations & collaborate with them to execute mutual goals
Capable of setting a strategic direction for a team with clear goals and guiding a team to achieve business results
Strong builder and manager/leader of exceptional recruiting team
Comfortable with data and makingdata-driven decisions. Can easily set and assess success metrics
Can easily communicate complex ideas
Possessincredible ability to articulate a company’s business and culture to candidates and effectively sell Clay as a great place to work
Understands other parts of the business to effectively partner with leaders & support hiring goals
