DACH Partner Manager (German Speaking)

Clay; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay is seeking an experienced Partner Manager to own the partner collaboration and drive partner-sourced revenue in enterprise SaaS. You will manage a portfolio of Solutions Partners and align with GTM teams to accelerate pipeline.

You will lead co-sell motions, map accounts, and build scalable processes, tools, and playbooks. The role requires strong English and German skills and comfort engaging with executives.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in sales, B2B partnerships, business development, or ecosystem roles at a B2B SaaS company.
• Fluent in written and spoken English and German.
• Hands-on experience with solutions partners, agencies, or SIs in enterprise co-sell, referral, or partner-sourced revenue motions.
• Strong familiarity with account mapping, pipeline reviews, and collaboration between sales and partners.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of enterprise-focused Solutions Partners and manage partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and revenue.
• Refine Clay's enterprise co-sell frameworks and partner engagement model.
• Lead enterprise co-sell motions from referral through close with GTM Engineers on opportunity strategy.
• Run account mapping and pipeline reviews to identify whitespace, expansion paths, and partner-led entry points.
• Translate lessons into scalable tooling, playbooks, and repeatable workflows.
• Drive rigor across deal registration, partner engagement, and pipeline hygiene.
• Manage partner capacity and capability alignment to match opportunities with domain expertise.
• Drive joint GTM efforts with partners: co-hosted webinars, executive roundtables, thought leadership.
• Collaborate with GTM Ops, Solutions Engineering, Legal, and Sales Leadership on deal routing, attribution, and forecasting.
• Support evolution of partner-led sales motions, including reseller opportunities for lower-touch segments.

Skills

Sales experience

English fluency

German fluency

Partnerships / ecosystem experience

Tools

Crossbeam

Retool

Dust

Job description

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 are 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.

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• 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.
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Partner Manager @ Clay

Clay's solutions partner ecosystem is a critical growth lever, not just as a sourcing channel, but as a force multiplier for pipeline creation, deal velocity, and enterprise credibility. As Clay continues to scale upmarket and expand its partner-led motion, we're investing in dedicated Partner Managers who will own the sales execution layer of our solutions partner relationships.

This role sits at the intersection of Partnerships and Sales, with a clear mandate: drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline through structured co-sell motions, account mapping, referrals, and joint execution. You'll manage a portfolio of high-impact Solutions Partners, working closely with Clay's GTM Engineering, GTM Ops, and Sales teams to identify shared opportunities, accelerate in-flight deals, and turn partnerships into a repeatable revenue engine.

What you'll do

Partnership Ownership

• Own a portfolio of enterprise-focused Solutions Partners with responsibility for partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, deal progression, and revenue
• Contribute to the ongoing refinement of Clay's enterprise co-sell frameworks and partner engagement model

Co-sell Execution

• Lead enterprise co-sell motions from referral through close, partnering with GTM Engineers on opportunity strategy
• Run account mapping and pipeline reviews to identify whitespace, expansion paths, and partner-led entry points
• Translate what works into scalable infrastructure: tooling, playbooks, and repeatable workflows
• Drive rigor across deal registration, partner engagement, and pipeline hygiene
• Manage partner capacity and capability alignment to match opportunities with proven domain expertise

Market Activation and Collaboration

• Drive joint GTM efforts with partners: co-hosted webinars, executive roundtables, and thought leadership
• Collaborate with GTM Ops, Solutions Engineering, Legal, and Sales Leadership on deal routing, attribution, and forecasting
• Support the evolution of partner-led sales motions, including reseller opportunities for lower-touch segments

What you'll bring

• 4-7+ years of experience in sales, B2B partnerships, business development, or ecosystem roles at a B2B SaaS company
• Fluency in written and spoken English and German
• Hands-on experience working with solutions partners, agencies, or SIs, especially in enterprise co-sell, referral, or partner-sourced revenue motions
• Strong familiarity with account mapping, pipeline reviews, and deal collaboration between internal sales teams and external partners
• Comfortable operating in cross-functional environments, partnering closely with Sales, GTM Ops, Legal, and Solutions teams
• Sales-minded and outcomes-oriented, with comfort being measured on pipeline creation, deal influence, and revenue impact
• Able to operate with structure and rigor while building trust-based, high-leverage partner relationships
• Comfortable engaging at the executive level with partners and internal sales leadership
• Bonus: experience working alongside sales engineering, RevOps, or GTM teams; familiarity with Clay and other tools like Crossbeam, Retool, Dust, and other similar platforms