About the Role
We are seeking a Data Scientist to join Clay's Data Science and Analytics team. You will be embedded with a partner team (Product, Marketing, Sales, Finance, or Partnerships) as their full data partner, shaping business operations and product development. This role is for individuals who want to own challenging, ambiguous problems end-to-end, including designing experiments, building predictive models, and defining new metrics. Data scientists at Clay are strategic leaders and trusted truth-tellers in a fast-growing AI business at the forefront of AI-enabled data science.
Responsibilities
- Own causal inference and experimentation
- Design and analyze experiments, and build incrementality measurement where clean A/B tests aren't possible
- Define how we measure the business
- Shape metric trees that connect team-level metrics to company outcomes
- Establish success criteria for product launches
- Build frameworks for sizing and forecasting impact
- Build predictive models that lead our team to focus on what matters most
- Root-cause anomalies
- Investigate nuanced behavioral questions
- Build new analysis frameworks where existing patterns don't fit
- Use data to teach all of Clay what we should be focusing on and what we can ignore
- Partner as an embedded expert
- Work as the direct analytical partner to leaders in your area
- Turn ambiguous strategic questions into rigorous, decision-ready analysis
Requirements
- 5+ years in data science, with demonstrated ownership of experimentation, causal inference, or predictive modeling
- Strong product and business sense: connect analysis to decisions and revenue
- Demonstrated track record of directly influencing product and business decisions with your work
- Strong statistical and experimentation foundations: experiment design, effect estimation, a large exploratory analysis toolkit, and knowing when a result shouldn't be trusted
- Expert SQL and Python
- Experience using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate analytical work
- Clear communicator who can influence senior stakeholders
Skills
- Experimentation
- Causal inference
- Predictive modeling
- SQL
- Python
- AI tools
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Benefits
- Work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work.
- Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
- Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
- At Clay, AI handles routine analytical questions, so your time goes to the problems that require your expertise: causal inference, prediction, and the deep dives that change decisions.
- You'll help shape how a fast-scaling company measures growth and makes decisions.
- We value ownership, thoughtfulness, creative problem-solving, and a relentless focus on impact.
