Head of Compensation

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 https://clayrun.notion.site/Wall-of-Love-b243f2b67607438b9fad99341e6b8d47 — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.htmlbacked by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue. In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/dealbook/clay-start-up-tender-offers.html in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round https://www.clay.com/blog/community-equity-offering, for our customers, agency partners, and club members. Some things to know about us: - Our community http://community.clay.com includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs https://luma.com/claylive, and 30k members on Slack. - Our culture https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/spotlight-clay 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 https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/61477f2c24a826836f969afe/685d83a71452245cc1129791_4d770abfd83e276ec15315a2e06945bd_Clay2025_OperatingPrinciples.pdf. - Read about us in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html, Forbes http://google.com/search?q=forbes+clay&rlz=1C5OZZY_enUS1155US1155&oq=forbes+clay&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBBzkzM2owajSoAgOwAgHxBVAe8UAxJx_p&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8, First Round Review https://review.firstround.com/podcast/inside-clays-unconventional-path-to-1-25b/, and more https://www.clay.com/press. Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Clay-EI_IE9850794.11,15.htm page! HEAD OF COMPENSATION At Clay, People Operations is about creating the environment where people can do the best work of their careers. We're growing fast, and how we pay people sits at the center of how we attract, motivate, and retain the talent that gets us there. In this role, you'll own Clay's compensation function and build it for our landscape. You'll bring deep technical foundations and prior experience, but you won't copy and paste a system from your last company. Clay has a special culture, and our compensation philosophy and processes need to fit how we actually operate. You'll partner closely within the People team, and with Finance and leaders across the business to design programs that are thoughtful and fair. This is a hands-on role where you'll balance technical depth with good judgment, knowing when to add structure and when to stay flexible. Above all, you'll bring genuine care for getting pay right and take full ownership of the work. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build the Foundation: Philosophy & Architecture - Own Clay's compensation philosophy and salary structures, and evolve them as we scale - Build pay programs designed for Clay's business, talent market, and stage - Own market benchmarking and survey strategy, keeping our bands current, defensible, and grounded in how we actually compete for talent - Partner on GTM compensation, including the design of varia…