Sales Architect

claylabs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

claylabs is seeking a Sales Architect to design and enhance our sales engine. The candidate will work to maximize sales efficiency and tackle a variety of related tasks from product management to operations strategy.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in business strategy and revenue operations, particularly in hypergrowth AI/SaaS companies. You will lead efforts to innovate within the sales organization and implement new methodologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business strategy, operations, and analysis.
• At least 4 years in revenue operations at a hypergrowth AI/SaaS company.
• Experience owning a P&L, quota, or business outcome.

Responsibilities

• Maximize value creation across the sales funnel.
• Own internal moonshot goals on sales efficiency.
• Lead implementation of sales processes and methodologies.

Skills

Business strategy

Operations

Quantitative modeling

Customer engagement

Revenue operations

Job description

We’re excited for our first Sales Architect to design and build our sales engine. This is a new and unique role. We’re looking for someone who thinks like a general manager and will pursue every opportunity to improve sales efficiency with the tenacity of a P&L owner on the way to moonshot goals like expanding quota capacity for our GTME (seller) organization. To do that, this person will wear many hats simultaneously including: product manager—roadmapping and designing solutions, operations strategist—working backwards from finance goals to operational milestones, technical architect—making changes to our systems, business partner—getting really deep with your end users (sales), and RevOps pro—building processes fit for scale like transparent ROE. Externally, you’ll immerse yourself with our customers as a practitioner-evangelist of Clay and the future of GTM.

What You'll Do

• Maximize value creation across the funnel: Find every inefficiency in the sales funnel and work with our GTM Ops and internal GTM Engineers to solve them using Clay and other tooling. You’ll think and act like a P&L owner evolving every put and take in our GTM system.
• Push the art of the possible: Own the day to day of achieving our internal moonshot goals like greatly expanding sales efficiency and finding new use cases for Clay.
• Innovate with empathy: Embed within the sales organization to generate novel solutions to current problems. Look around corners to build ahead of new technologies and approaches.
• Lead implementation and change management for GTM initiatives: Design and implement sales process/methodology, develop playbooks, create field assets, participate in every forecast call and help to drive the GTM operating rhythm.
• Partner with GTM Finance on planning and incentives: Operationalize comp rollout, provide operational assumptions for capacity models, and collaborate on high-leverage questions like segment prioritization, connect the dots across the GTM.
• Partner with GTM Engineering and GTM Ops: To push Clay's product into new use cases, propose extensions, and contribute to our practitioner-led product feedback loop.

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of experience in business strategy, operations, and analysis with at least 4 years in revenue operations at a hypergrowth AI / SaaS company.
• At least 1 year of experience owning a P&L, quota, retention, implementation, pipeline or other business outcome personally.
• You’ve implemented novel GTM strategies with measurable business impact: reinvented the playbook before from first principles and are excited to do it again.
• Exceptional quantitative modeling skills with experience understanding sales performance.
• Executive (but still grounded) presence: you communicate clearly, challenge assumptions in the room, and are comfortable saying "I don't know yet!"
• An informed perspective on AI and real examples of how you’ve put it to work in your workflows or team processes.
• You’re excited to spend time speaking with our customers and community to bring Clay's best practices to market.