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Clay's mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential.\nClay predicts the next best action for your business and then helps you take it. We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies. Then, we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it, including emails, ads, landing pages, and workflows that make reps more productive. Now, we're building agents that can help grow your company for you. We're already helping thousands of customers - including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Visa - go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.\nIn 2026, we raised a $115M Series D at $7.1B Valuation led by Wellington - and are on track to cross $200M in revenue this quarter. We also launched a $1M Scholarship fund for GTME Education.\nSome things to know about us:\nOur community includes 17,000+ customers, 200+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.\n\nOur 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.\n\nAll employees can work with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.\n\nOur operating principles - including negative maintenance and non-attached action - guide our work. Read more about them here.\n\nRead about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.\n\nHear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!\nAccounting Engineer @ Clay\nAt Clay, we believe the future of accounting is not just about closing the books accurately; it is about closing them intelligently. Just as we pioneered the Go-To-Market Engineer (GTME) role to reimagine how sales and operations intersect with AI, we are now doing the same for finance and accounting.\nThe Accounting Engineer is a new discipline we are defining from the ground up. It sits at the intersection of three historically separate worlds: accounting, finance systems and data. The connective tissue between all three is AI. This is not a hybrid role as an afterthought; it is an intentional choice about how Clay's accounting function will scale.\nYou will own core accounting operations, build and optimize the systems that power them, and design the automation workflows that make everything faster and more accurate. 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