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People Operations Generalist

Clay
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jan 2026
💰 $200,000/yr($175,000/yr$200,000/yr)

About the role

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, Waste Management, Figma, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.

In 2025, we crossed $100M in revenue and raised a $100M Series C at a $3.1B valuation, backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round. We also completed our first first employee tender offer and 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!

People Operations Generalist

At Clay, People Operations is about creating the environment where people can do the best work of their careers. In this hands-on role, you'll own our People Operations infrastructure from the ground up: HRIS administration, employee lifecycle workflows, benefits programs, and compliance frameworks.

This year, Clay is growing rapidly and expanding globally. In this role, you’ll build streamlined, technology-driven systems that can support this growth while keeping the unique culture that makes Clay successful. You'll need to know when to automate and when to keep things human, when to add structure and when to stay flexible, when to build for scale and when to prioritize the now.

In this role, you’ll build your own roadmap in an ambiguous environment. You’ll get comfortable creating structure where none exists, while also appreciating that too much structure too soon might disrupt the clay magic. How you communicate change will matter as much as the change itself, because rolling out new processes requires bringing people along, not just implementing systems.

What You'll Do

Build Processes that Remove Friction

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