Claylabs

Claylabs

Head of Compensation

New York

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 28 days ago
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About the role

  • We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula.
  • As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Build the Foundation: Philosophy & Architecture
  • 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 variable pay and incentive structures that drive the right outcomes across our revenue-generating teams
  • Build the system of record for comp at Clay: what we pay, why we pay it, and how it holds together as we grow
  • Design and run cyclical compensation processes, including reviews, promotion and adjustment decisions, and offer approvals
  • Partner with Revenue Operations on the administration of variable compensation, ensuring plans are accurately implemented, calculated, and paid
  • Build Clay-native comp workflows and tooling, using technology to make comp programs easier to run, from offer visualization to recruiter-facing lookups that put the right data at people's fingertips
  • Build Confidence: Communication & Enablement
  • 8+ years in compensation with significant hands-on program design experience, ideally including time at a scaling company

Nice to have

  • Experience with multi-country compensation, including the UK and Europe, is a plus

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.

Benefits

  • We also launched a community equity round https://www.clay.com/blog/community-equity-offering, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.
  • Own equity program design and partner with Finance on administration

Company info

  • 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!
  • 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.
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