Data Science & Analytics Manager

Clay (Earth); New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay is seeking a Data Science Manager to lead the Data Science and Analytics team, guiding experimentation, metric design, and data storytelling across the company. You will partner with executives to translate ideas into measurable outcomes, set standards, and grow a high-impact team with a focus on AI-native data solutions.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration, own staffing, and ensure the team delivers data-informed decisions that shape Clay's product and business trajectory.

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing data scientists and/or analytics engineers; 6+ years in data science or analytics with impact on product decisions.
• Strong depth in experimentation, analytics, statistics, data modeling, and metric design.
• Expertise in product or growth data science with understanding of user funnels in B2B/B2C products.
• Skilled at stakeholder management with senior leaders across product, GTM, and finance.
• Proven ability to influence product roadmaps via data and insights and connect data work to business outcomes.
• Excellent data storytelling skills and empathetic communication for diverse audiences.
• Experience growing teams: hiring, coaching, and developing senior ICs; excited about AI-native ways of working.
• Nice to have experience with Snowflake, GitHub, dbt, Hex, Sigma, Dagster; product-led growth or usage-based pricing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Data Science and Analytics team (DSA) as the center of excellence for experimentation, metrics, and data-driven decision-making.
• Partner with executives to set product and business strategy and craft the internal narrative with data.
• Set standards for data work, coach team members, and establish rituals for cohesion and growth.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard top talent; staff across partner areas to maximize impact.
• Ensure instrumentation and monitoring of key metrics and that data informs strategic priorities.
• Shape product and business strategy by identifying opportunities through analysis and insights.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align goals, provide tooling and insights, and push back when needed.

Skills

Team leadership

Data storytelling

Experimentation

Statistics

Stakeholder management

Product data science

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Snowflake

GitHub

dbt

Hex

Sigma

Dagster

Job description

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 — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue. In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members. Some things to know about us: Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ 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 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. Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more. Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!

The Role

We're looking for a Data Science Manager to lead Clay's Data Science and Analytics team (DSA). DSA is a team of data scientists and analytics engineers that serves as the company's center of excellence for experimentation, metric design, insights, and data-driven decision-making across all areas of the business (Product, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Partnerships). The manager of this team will be a key leader in setting product and business strategy: partnering with executives to meet ideas with numbers and set the internal narrative and focus using data. The team has strong foundations and is at the forefront of AI for data: we’ve basically solved the self-serve analytics problem via our custom in-house AI agent “Monty.” We’re looking for a strong leader with strong data intuition, product and business acumen, and data storytelling skills who can multiply this team’s strategic influence on one of the fastest-growing AI businesses.

What you’ll do

• Lead and grow the team.
• Manage and develop data scientists and analytics engineers.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard top talent as the team scales.
• Create shared standards for what great data work looks like, and coach the team to get there.
• Establish rituals that build team cohesion and support technical growth.
• Set the technical bar.
• Hold high standards for experimentation, analysis, insights, metric design, and data modeling.
• Ensure that Clay remains at the forefront of the latest innovations in AI for data science and analytics.
• Relentlessly focus on impact.
• Ensure the team is making the right tradeoffs.
• Keep the team focused on work that actually changes decisions and meaningfully impacts the business trajectory of Clay, and leave the rest.
• Strategically partner and prioritize across the business.
• Own staffing across partner areas to ensure every key stakeholder has the support they need, while holding a high bar for impact and pushing back where needed.
• Ensure partners are making data-informed decisions, and that they have the tooling, insights, and partnership they need to do so.
• Shape product and business strategy.
• Directly inform what we prioritize using data; opportunity size new potential areas for investment and proactively identify potential new directions through analysis and insights.
• Set the narrative internally using numbers.
• Define our key measurement frameworks.
• Partner with stakeholders to define our business and product goals.
• Lead the development and championing of key metrics; ensure our most important metrics are properly instrumented and monitored.
• Create a data-obsessed organization.
• Develop a deep understanding of and empathy for our users.
• Partner with UXR and customer feedback teams to create the most comprehensive understanding of what Clay users, buyers, and prospects want and need.

What we’re looking for

• 2+ years managing data scientists and/or analytics engineers, and 6+ years overall in data science or analytics, with a track record of shipping work that has directly influenced product and business decisions
• Strong technical depth in experimentation, analytics, statistics, data modeling, and metric design; can coach and set a high technical bar for senior ICs
• Expertise in product or growth data science: an expert-level understanding of user funnels (acquisition, activation, engagement, retention) in B2B or B2C products
• Skilled at stakeholder management: comfortable partnering with senior leaders across Product, GTM, and Finance, and pushing back when needed
• Proven experience influencing product roadmaps via data and insights, and the proven ability to connect data work to business outcomes
• Excellent data storytelling skills
• An empathetic communicator who expresses nuanced ideas clearly for different audiences and prioritizes curiosity and partnership
• Experience growing teams: hiring, coaching, and developing senior ICs
• Excitement about AI-native ways of working
• Nice to have
• Experience with our stack: Snowflake, GitHub, dbt, Hex, Sigma, Dagster
• Experience in product-led growth or B2B SaaS, especially usage-based pricing
• Experience running embedded/hub-and-spoke data team models
• Experience scaling a data team through rapid company growth
• Experience working on AI products

Why Clay

Data is at the heart of what we do at Clay. We are building a self-learning revenue engine; we need data leadership to understand how that engine is operating internally and for our customers. We are building a team of strategic leaders and trusted truth-tellers: come lead it!