Chief of Staff, Marketing

Clay · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Marketing

This role is for a Chief of Staff, Marketing at Clay, a company that helps organizations turn growth ideas into reality using AI. The role focuses on executing marketing strategy, managing the marketing team's operations, leading high-impact projects, and improving performance tracking. The ideal candidate is a builder with strong business judgment, experience in high-growth environments, and excellent communication skills, with a solid understanding of marketing and its connection to revenue.

What you'd actually do

  1. You’ll act as an extension of the Head of Marketing, helping turn strategy into execution across the entire function.
  2. You’ll run the operating system of the marketing team. This includes owning planning cadences, shaping quarterly priorities, and ensuring teams are aligned against the highest-leverage work. You’ll identify gaps, unblock teams, and push initiatives forward without needing perfect direction.
  3. You’ll lead high-impact, ambiguous projects that don’t neatly fit into a single function—whether that’s launching a new growth motion, improving how we connect product marketing to sales, or building new internal systems for tracking performance.
  4. You’ll bring structure to chaos without hurting speed. This could mean building dashboards that actually get used, improving how we track pipeline influence, or creating processes that help us move faster without adding unnecessary overhead.
  5. You’ll partner closely with leaders across growth, product marketing, brand, community, and sales to ensure everything we do is cohesive and compounds over time.

Skills

Required

  • Marketing strategy execution
  • Marketing operations management
  • Project leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Business judgment
  • Prioritization
  • Ambiguity navigation
  • Organization
  • Detail-orientation
  • Communication
  • Marketing domain knowledge

What the JD emphasized

  • builder first
  • strong business judgment
  • prioritize ruthlessly
  • high-growth environments
  • navigating ambiguity
  • highly organized
  • detail-oriented
  • excellent communicator
  • strong understanding of marketing