Clay has quietly built one of the most polished products in the sales-tech space, and their design sensibility is a huge reason why. A product design role here means shaping how AI-powered workflows actually feel — rare territory where craft really matters.
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About Clay
Clay's mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality. The company views growth as a creative practice, not a formula and serves thousands of customers including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp.
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Product Design @ Clay
The role addresses a core problem: insufficient design thinking in software development tools, leaving teams stuck in monotonous cycles with lots of manual work.
Key Questions the Team Explores:
Responsibilities
Design & Ship Core Features - Design and maintain core features and infrastructure with significant responsibility across the entire product.
Collaborate & Learn - Partner with team members, communicate openly, exchange thoughtful feedback, and learn from subject matter experts.
Take Ownership - Work in high-trust, ownership focused environment where team members define priorities and drive initiatives forward.
User Research & Roadmap - Set up, run, and synthesize user research studies to inform use cases and prioritization decisions.
Design & Prototype - Develop novel interfaces making software building more intuitive, including lightweight prototypes exploring innovative interaction patterns.
Required Qualifications
Clear Design Process - Identify right problems, consider multiple solutions, articulate tradeoffs intelligently, and develop processes serving shared higher-level goals.
Communication & Collaboration - Communicate at different abstraction levels with visual, verbal, and written skills; comfortable with synchronous and asynchronous communication.
Systems Thinking - Break down complex problems into simple interfaces; identify repeating patterns across products; abstract into common interactions.
Pixel-Perfect Design - Iteratively refine until designs feel right; inspire engineering partners toward equivalent care standards.
Interaction-Focused Design - Understand software as responsive systems evolving over time, not static screen sets; deeply grasp design nuances for interactive mediums.
Customer-Focused Approach - Continuously empathize with customers and validate delivery of intuitive value.
Experience: 8+ years in relevant roles required.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $160,000 - $250,000 annually
Equity: Offered
Location: New York, NY (hybrid; 3+ days/week in office expected)
Work Authorization: Open to US-based candidates; remote work available
Employment Type: Full-time
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