Open Role
Private Equity Partnerships (EMEA)
at Clay
United Kingdom·Posted 1 day ago
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, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.
In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue.
In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.
Some things to know about us:
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Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
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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.
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All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
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Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here.
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Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor 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
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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
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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
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Map and prioritize the PE landscape – firms, funds, and portfolios aligned with Clay's GTM value
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Build relationships with Operating Partners and Value Creation teams to understand fund priorities and timing
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Develop Clay's PE-specific narrative and materials: decks, pilot frameworks, ROI overviews
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Design portfolio entry models (pilots, GTM diagnostics, enablement cohorts)
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Convert PE relationships into structured engagement and portfolio introductions
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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
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Design and execute scaled activation programs (webinars, cohorts, office hours, workshops) that reach many portfolio companies at once
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Build repeatable infrastructure that drives adoption with minimal 1:1 touch
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Define portfolio-level success metrics tied to PE value creation (adoption, time-to-value, expansion, ARR growth, GTM efficiency)
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Convert outcomes into executive-ready narratives: ROI summaries, impact reports, board-level readouts
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Gather structured feedback and represent PE needs back to Product, Partnerships, and GTM teams
What you'll bring
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Have 6–10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS partnerships, program management, GTM strategy, value creation, consulting, or revenue operations
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Have experience working with or presenting to Private Equity Operating Partners, Value Creation teams, or portfolio executives
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Enjoy building scalable programs and systems, not bespoke 1:1 solutions
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Possess strong systems thinking and comfort designing workflows that reduce manual work
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Are fluent in translating technical capabilities into business and financial impact
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Have a strong bias toward measuring what matters (adoption, ARR, efficiency, outcomes)
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Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and building new motions from scratch
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Communicate clearly and credibly with senior executives and internal stakeholders
About Clay

AI-powered sales prospecting and data enrichment platform.
View full profile →- HQ
- New York, NY
- Stage
- Series C+
- Total Raised
- $222M
- Employees
- 201-1,000
- Founded
- 2017