Engineering Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Engineering Leadership role at Clay Labs. New York · full-time · $240,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set the team's purpose and ownership, then give engineers principles for making everyday priority calls
- Shape the team roadmap with product managers and decide how people are assigned across the work
- Build a collaborative team, coach people toward career goals, and recruit, interview, and onboard engineers
- Lead team delivery by setting up effective processes, following through on commitments, and representing the team across the organization
- Take part in engineering-wide efforts that improve quality and the ability to scale
What you bring
- At least two years managing engineers and six years in software development overall
- Experience managing and coaching at least three direct reports
- A track record of creating scalable, high-performance systems with attention to customer experience
Who this fits
This is a people-management role for an engineering manager who can own a team's direction, delivery, hiring, and development. The role is hybrid in New York.
From the employer
About Clay
AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay's 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, we're building agents that can help grow your company for you. We're 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 17,000+ 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!
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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