Partnerships & Ecosystem | Making complex things click for partners, users, and teams.
I started my career as a journalist and honestly, that never really left me.
Back then, my job was to take something complicated and make it land for the reader. Strip it down, find the human thread, and tell it in a way that actually sticks. I didn't know it at the time, but that instinct would follow me through every role I've had since.
From brand management in Lagos to sales development in Toronto, I kept finding myself in the same position: sitting between groups of people who needed one other but weren't quite speaking the same language. My job, every time, was to close that gap.
That's what brought me to partnerships.
At Clay, I work at the heart of our integration ecosystem, from scoping and testing new partner APIs, to building the content and workflows that help those partners actually succeed with our users. I led the revamp of our integrations page, created dozens of Claybooks for newly onboarded partners, and built internal systems to track and manage contract terms. More recently, I've been developing workflows that bring structure to processes that used to rely entirely on manual effort.
What I've learned is that the best partnerships don't happen because of a signed agreement. They happen because someone took the time to understand both sides deeply enough to make the value obvious. That's the part I love most.
When I'm not in work mode, I'm building a community around something I care about deeply- documenting women. You can check here for more: substack.com/@cornrowsscarvesawu.
A few things I bring to every room:
-the ability to translate technical complexity into language that moves people to action
-a background spanning editorial, marketing, BD, and product-adjacent work which means I rarely see only one side of a problem &
-a genuine obsession with making things easier for the people I work with and for.
