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# Private Equity Partnerships (EMEA) at Clay Labs

- **Company:** [Clay Labs](https://feeny.ai/companies/clay-labs)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** $170k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/claylabs/c5579475-f252-48f6-b07b-01cb89063460/application

**Skills:** B2B SaaS partnerships, Program management, GTM strategy, Value creation, Consulting, Revenue operations, Systems thinking, Workflow design, Financial impact analysis

> Build and scale Clay's Private Equity partnerships motion from the ground up, focusing on business development and portfolio value creation. The role involves designing scalable programs, establishing repeatable infrastructure, and driving adoption across PE firms and their portfolios.

## 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'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](https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F09%2F09%2Fbusiness%2Fdealbook%2Fclay-ai-fundraising.html%3Fsmid%3Durl-share%26unlocked_article_code%3D1._1A.E5rN.MeYsbgEsUKbB&urlhash=XS4q&mt=4bpSf4a8omAKuAHqAqZx6C11QpbLK_QwIhSV7gSf4Wf9aywPF_KBSiX9IkWE1AhXBEjPH8mK6fAEN7CMFlpvo0lPAtKRjs-dhgzYqHiVKUMCRtw0jScFgxWCRRfYs4HCX0YL9L6PCQz-edBLinvRdU_TaVUL2dA3&isSdui=true&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BoQmIsufoRJm7X2HC5Rqd%2Fw%3D%3D) 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](http://community.clay.com) includes 17,000+ customers, 200+ 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 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!

PE Partnerships @Clay Clay is building the modern GTM operating system – helping companies transform how they source, enrich, and activate data across sales, marketing, and revenue operations. As Clay's adoption expands across Private Equity firms and their portfolios, we're investing in a dedicated role to build and scale our PE partnerships motion end-to-end. This is not a traditional sales role and not a 1:1 customer success role – it's a programs and systems role, focused on building repeatable infrastructure that allows Clay to scale across entire portfolios while staying credible in executive and board-level conversations. You'll take the foundation built by our Partnerships, GTM Engineering, and Enterprise teams and turn it into a repeatable PE playbook. Depending on background, you may lean more heavily into one track, but success requires tight integration across both.

## About the role

We're hiring a foundational Partnerships hire to build Clay's PE motion from the ground up – from firm entry to portfolio activation to proving value at scale. This role spans two tightly connected tracks, and we're hiring across both

- Private Equity Business Development — shaping how Clay shows up to PE firms, building relationships with Operating Partners and Value Creation teams, and converting interest into pilots and portfolio entry
- Portfolio Value Creation & Activation — designing scalable programs that drive Clay adoption, measurable GTM impact, and portfolio-wide expansion

## What you’ll do

Private Equity Business Development How Clay enters PE firms and initiates portfolio motion

- Map and prioritize the PE landscape – firms, funds, and portfolios aligned with Clay's GTM value
- Build relationships with Operating Partners and Value Creation teams to understand fund priorities and timing
- Develop Clay's PE-specific narrative and materials: decks, pilot frameworks, ROI overviews
- Design portfolio entry models (pilots, GTM diagnostics, enablement cohorts)
- Convert PE relationships into structured engagement and portfolio introductions
- Coordinate with GTM Engineering, Enterprise, RevOps, and Legal on pilots and commercial terms

Portfolio Value Creation & Activation How Clay delivers, measures, and scales value across portfolios

- Design and execute scaled activation programs (webinars, cohorts, office hours, workshops) that reach many portfolio companies at once
- Build repeatable infrastructure that drives adoption with minimal 1:1 touch
- Define portfolio-level success metrics tied to PE value creation (adoption, time-to-value, expansion, ARR growth, GTM efficiency)
- Convert outcomes into executive-ready narratives: ROI summaries, impact reports, board-level readouts
- Gather structured feedback and represent PE needs back to Product, Partnerships, and GTM teams

## What you'll bring

- Have 6–10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS partnerships, program management, GTM strategy, value creation, consulting, or revenue operations
- Have experience working with or presenting to Private Equity Operating Partners, Value Creation teams, or portfolio executives
- Enjoy building scalable programs and systems, not bespoke 1:1 solutions
- Possess strong systems thinking and comfort designing workflows that reduce manual work
- Are fluent in translating technical capabilities into business and financial impact
- Have a strong bias toward measuring what matters (adoption, ARR, efficiency, outcomes)
- Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and building new motions from scratch
- Communicate clearly and credibly with senior executives and internal stakeholders

## About Clay Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clay is a creative go-to-market (GTM) platform that helps teams build automated systems to grow revenue by combining data enrichment, AI agents, and workflow orchestration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C expansion at $3.1B valuation, tender offer at $5B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed in available sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Go-to-market (GTM) software / Sales & Marketing technology
- **Target customers**: B2B GTM teams of all sizes – from solo operators to enterprise sales, marketing, and revenue teams
- **Mission**: Help people grow businesses by providing the best data foundation possible to reach their best-fit customers

## Products & Services
- **Data Marketplace**: Access to 200+ data and AI vendors in one contract – enabling teams to buy, enrich, and combine first-party, intent, and third-party data.
- **Agents**: Create AI agents that mimic top sales representatives to automate research, prep, and follow-ups.
- **Orchestration**: Build multi-step workflows that connect GTM tools (CRM, email, ads) and trigger actions based on real-time signals.
- **Automated Outbound**: Programmatically generate 1:1 messaging, launch new plays in days, and scale outbound campaigns.
- **Lead Scoring & Routing**: Enrich, score, and route every lead to the right rep in minutes.
- **Pre‑Call Prep Agent**: Researches prospect bios, earnings reports, and company changes to fully automate pre‑call prep.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $5B (via employee tender offer, January 2026); previous Series C at $3.1B (2025)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $35.5M; total funding $202M
- **Notable Investors**: Sequoia Capital, CapitalG, First Round Capital, Meritech Capital Partners
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 792 employees (+74.6% YoY)
  - 500,000+ GTM teams trust Clay
  - Named #1 mid-stage company on the ENT30 list
  - Only GTM company on Forbes’ 2025 AI 50 List
  - Customer case studies: Anthropic 3× enrichment rate, OpenAI automated pre‑call prep, Intercom grew outbound pipeline 140%, Vanta cut follow‑up time from 3 days to <1, Mistral AI cut TAM mapping from 2 months to 10 days
  - Active job postings grew 763% YoY; operates in 47 countries

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique combination of data marketplace + AI agents + workflow automation** in a single platform – reduces the need for multiple tools and manual coordination.
- “A single person can run growth campaigns that previously required coordinating the entire GTM team.”
- **Massive data marketplace** (200+ vendors) with one contract simplifies data procurement.
- **Network effects** – 500,000+ users contribute to a growing community of GTM engineers.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen AI capabilities in agentic workflows for GTM
- Expand the data marketplace with more vendors and intent signals
- Continue scaling globally (already in 47 countries) and hiring aggressively (164 open roles)
- Build out ecosystem partnerships and enable customers to become “GTM engineers”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Kindness, creativity, “quiet ego”, and a focus on helping each other grow. Values like “Make it work, then make it great” and “Negative maintenance” (improve a little every day).
- **Work model**: Flexible in‑person culture – office in Chelsea, NYC, with daily team lunches and DJ Fridays. Hybrid flexibility offered; remote roles available.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, fully funded health/dental/vision, 4 months paid parental leave, IVF and egg freezing benefits, flexible PTO, yearly company retreats, visa sponsorship.
- **Engineering**: Emphasis on craft, attention to detail, and deep enjoyment of the building process. Engineers work on AI, data infrastructure, and scalable systems.
- **Interview process**: Typically 3–5 interviews (behavioral + technical) plus a founders interview; practical exercises and reference checks.

## Sources
1. [Clay.com – Careers](https://www.clay.com/careers)
2. [Clay.com – About](https://www.clay.com/about)
3. [Clay.com – Main Site](https://www.clay.com/)
4. [LinkedIn – Clay (Clay Labs Inc.)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-with-clay)

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