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# Procurement at Clay Labs

- **Company:** [Clay Labs](https://feeny.ai/companies/clay-labs)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $170k–$215k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/claylabs/4be52dd6-244b-4e27-bf4a-757a1094a82a/application

**Skills:** Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Negotiation, SaaS Pricing Models, Contract Management, RFP/RFQ Management, Financial Modeling, Procure-to-Pay Platforms, Zip, Coupa, Ramp, ERP Integration, Spend Reporting

> Clay is hiring its first Procurement hire to own the vendor negotiation lifecycle, drive year-over-year savings, and build procurement infrastructure. The role involves auditing contracts, running sourcing events, and implementing procurement tooling to scale vendor spend management.

## 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! Procurement @ Clay Clay is a fast-growing AI GTM platform, and our vendor spend is scaling with us. As our first Procurement hire, your primary mandate is simple: get us better deals. You'll own our entire vendor negotiation lifecycle by identifying savings opportunities, running competitive sourcing events, and driving hard on commercial terms across our biggest contracts. Beyond the deal work, you'll also build the infrastructure that lets us scale how we buy, work cross-functionally with key decision makers, and identify opportunities for savings and consolidation.

## What you'll do

- Own Clay's vendor negotiation strategy across all major spend categories from SaaS, data partnerships, hosting, professional services, and marketing, with a clear mandate to drive year-over-year savings
- Conduct a full audit of existing vendor contracts to identify renegotiation opportunities, unfavorable terms, and upcoming renewals worth challenging
- Run competitive sourcing events (RFPs, RFQs, reverse auctions) to create leverage and benchmark pricing against market rates
- Lead all commercial negotiations end-to-end from opening anchor, to redline, to signature, with a focus on unit price, payment terms, caps, and exit rights
- Build and maintain a savings tracker showing realized savings, cost avoidance, and pipeline reported directly to Finance leadership
- Develop negotiation playbooks by vendor category, so Clay always enters renewals with a strategy, not just a conversation
- Work with Legal to redline MSAs, order forms, and DPAs including flagging commercial risk and driving resolution without letting Legal review become a bottleneck
- Track renewal calendar and market benchmarks so no contract auto-renews without a competitive review
- Evaluate, select, and implement a procurement intake and approval platform (e.g. Zip, Ramp) while defining approval routing, PO thresholds, and stakeholder workflows
- Own the integration between procurement tooling, ERP, and Ramp to ensure POs, approvals, and invoices flow cleanly end to end
- Build spend reporting and dashboards, including committed spend, open POs, savings realized, and renewal pipeline, so Finance always has a clear picture of upcoming spend.

## What we're looking for

- 6-10 years of procurement or strategic sourcing experience with a demonstrable savings track record
- Expert negotiator, you've closed complex, high-value SaaS and vendor contracts and can point to specific wins
- Deep familiarity with SaaS and AI pricing models, contract structures, and where vendors have room to move
- Comfortable running competitive sourcing events from scratch and using competition as leverage
- Strong financial instincts with the ability to build financial models and know when a price is genuinely good
- Hands-on experience implementing a procure-to-pay or intake platform (Zip, Coupa, or similar)
- Operates independently in ambiguous environments, and you don't need a playbook to get started
- Can push back on vendors while keeping the relationship intact

## 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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