Sales Architect

Clay Clay · Vertical AI · New York, NY · GTM - Ops

This role is for a Sales Architect at Clay, an AI/SaaS company focused on helping organizations turn growth ideas into reality. The Sales Architect will design and build the sales engine, focusing on improving sales efficiency and outcomes. The role involves product management, operations strategy, technical architecture, business partnering, and RevOps. The ideal candidate has experience in business strategy, operations, and analysis, with a background in revenue operations at a hypergrowth AI/SaaS company. An informed perspective on AI and experience putting it to work in workflows or team processes is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in business strategy, operations, and analysis
  • 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
  • implemented novel GTM strategies with measurable business impact
  • Exceptional quantitative modeling skills with experience understanding sales performance
  • An informed perspective on AI and real examples of how you've put it to work in your workflows or team processes

Nice to have

  • Executive (but still grounded) presence
  • comfortable saying "I don't know yet!"
  • excited to spend time speaking with our customers and community to bring Clay's best practices to market

What the JD emphasized

  • revenue operations at a hypergrowth AI / SaaS company
  • owning a P&L, quota, retention, implementation, pipeline or other business outcome personally
  • implemented novel GTM strategies with measurable business impact: reinvented the playbook before from first principles and are excited to do it again