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The clearest definition yet of the role that is quietly reshaping outbound teams, with how Intercom, Canva, Notion and Ramp actually structure it and what to test for when hiring. Useful even if you never make the hire, because it describes where outbound leverage now comes from.
GTM Engineering: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Hire
From Clay by Mishti Sharma and Varun Anand long read
- Roughly 100 GTM engineer listings go live every month, for a role Clay only named in 2023.
- GTM engineering work climbs three rungs: data foundation, data modeling, data activation, and most teams stall on the first.
- Most companies embed GTM engineers inside RevOps first, then federate them out to the teams.
- At Verkada the setup lets SDRs book 80 to 100 meetings a month, about 4x their previous rate.
