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title: 'Growth & Operations Lead at Valid'
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# Growth & Operations Lead at Valid

- **Company:** Valid
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valid/043d435e-4f43-45f4-b179-67cadace217c

## Job description

## WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

If you’ve ever wanted to see exactly how a startup scales from the inside-and play a direct role in making it happen-this is it.

You’ll work as the founder’s right hand, taking on high-impact projects across growth, operations, automation, recruiting, and events. You’ll have a seat at the table for key strategic decisions and be trusted to take fuzzy, ambiguous ideas and turn them into executed reality.

This isn’t a narrow or repetitive role. One week you might be running a scrappy GTM campaign; the next, building an internal automation or hosting an industry dinner.

If you thrive on variety, autonomy, and being dropped into complex challenges with little more than “make it happen,” you’ll fit right in.

Career Path

For the right person, this role can evolve into Head of Ops, Head of Growth, or Chief of Staff.

## ABOUT VALID

Founded in July 2023, Valid is a seed-stage company operating at Series A scale, headquartered in San Francisco.

In under two years, we’ve grown from 5 people to 40+, deployed over $1B in ad spend, and built a full-stack, tech-enabled advertising company serving enterprise consumer customers.

We’re well-capitalized and backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Canaan, Neo, and others.

## THE ROLE

This is a founder’s right-hand position - part business operations, part growth, part special projects. You’ll touch almost every part of the company:

Growth & GTM (40%)

- App Marketing content (LinkedIn, email, Twitter, etc)
- Ad Campaigns & outbound (LinkedIn, email)
- Hosting events

Operations & Automation (30%)

- Product-Agency integration/collaboration
- Identify bottlenecks across the company, design processes, and install tools to fix them.
- Build internal automations (Zapier, n8n, Airtable, etc.) to scale our workflows.

Applied AI (15%)

- Stay up to date on the latest in AI, push the company to lean into the latest tooling wherever possible.

Recruiting & Partnerships (15%)

- Source and close high-impact hires.
- Develop partnerships that open new growth channels.

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Significant exposure to startups and early stage companies.
- You’ll be talking to and selling directly to early-stage founders.
- Track record of independently taking projects from 0 → 1
- Comfortable with automation tools and “vibe coding” platforms.

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- VC associate / Analyst - Understand markets, GTM, and startup pace
- Former founder or early stage employee
- Experience planning and running events or community initiatives.
- Comfort with light technical tasks (APIs, no-code tools).

YOU’RE PROBABLY A GOOD FIT IF:

- You thrive in high-ambiguity, high-autonomy environments.
- You get energy from learning new skills quickly and applying them immediately.
- You’re equally comfortable talking to a founder, an engineer, and a customer in the same day.
- The idea of organized chaos resonates with your working style:
- Organized: Clear processes, efficient workflows, and effective communication
- Chaos: A willingness to iterate quickly and embrace change to stay ahead

## WHAT YOU’LL BE GETTING

- Work directly with the founder in a high-leverage role touching every part of the business.
- Master distribution Valid is a company effectively selling distribution. You will learn about growth and distribution via paid ads from the very best in the space.
- Work on a global team with flexibility and a collaborative startup culture

## COMPENSATION

- Competitive salary based on experience and location
- Meaningful equity ownership in a early, high growth business
- Benefits: 401k, healthcare, FSA, lunch (for in-person days)
- Location: In-person, San Francisco

## About Valid

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valid is an AI-native, full-stack ad agency that combines AI-generated creative, automated media buying, and custom data infrastructure to manage the entire advertising lifecycle for mobile apps, B2B SaaS, and e-commerce brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage; raised $7.3M total, including a $5.5M seed round led by Canaan Partners)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (team grew from 5 to 40+ in the last 12 months, suggesting a founding around 2023–2024)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising / Marketing (AI-enabled ad agency)
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise consumer brands, mobile apps, e-commerce); clients include Replit, Tolan, HoneyHomes, Rover, Quittr, SettleMate, Wayk
- **Mission / purpose**: “Make sophisticated advertising accessible to businesses of all sizes” and build an agency meant to last 100 years.

## Products & Services
- **Performance Creative**: Fully AI-generated short-form video ads engineered to drive sales; 20+ creatives per month, concept-to-account in 3 days.
- **AI-Influencers**: Custom-branded influencer accounts with real posts, real following, and full organic reach; includes whitelisting and partnership rights; 20 posts per month.
- **Media Buying**: Deployment and management of client ad spend across Meta, TikTok, TV, Google, Snap, AppLovin, and more; continuous optimization of targeting, placements, and budgets.
- **Custom Performance Dashboard**: Cross-platform analytics connecting to Meta, TikTok, Google, Snap, and all DTC attribution sources; includes a chat-with-your-ads MCP server.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $7.3M (seed); team headcount grew from 5 to 40+ in the last 12 months; $1B+ cumulative ad spend deployed across major platforms
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Canaan Partners (lead), Neo, JVentures, Steve Huffman (CEO of Reddit), Scott Banister (inventor of search ads)
- **Growth Signals**: Double-digit month-over-month growth; enterprise clients with real budgets at scale; case studies show –84% CPA cut, +1,156% profitable spend scale, 2.2x blended ROAS

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack, AI-native approach**: Engineering, creative, and media buying operate as one tightly integrated team, enabling faster iteration and compounding learnings.
- **Custom internal tooling**: AI agents, data pipelines, and a proprietary dashboard that give marketers full visibility and automation – not just off-the-shelf SaaS.
- **Outcome-driven model**: Valid charges based on performance (ever-positive returns on ad spend), aligning incentives with clients.
- **Pixar-like creative production**: Uses AI video generation tools (Kling, Seedance) combined with human intuition to produce ads that convert.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the team and platform**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, AI, creative, and marketing to extend the AI-native agency model.
- **Deepen automation**: Building AI agents that make a single marketer as effective as a 20–30 person agency team.
- **Expand into new verticals**: Already serving mobile apps, B2B SaaS, and e-commerce; aiming to make sophisticated advertising accessible to businesses of all sizes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, startup intensity with cross-disciplinary learning – engineers gain advertising intuition, media buyers think in systems, creatives read performance data.
- **Remote / Hybrid**: Remote-friendly with synchronous PT hours; product and engineering teams prefer in-person at the San Francisco Union Square office. Two-thirds of the team is remote.
- **Perks**:
  - Competitive base salary + equity
  - Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  - 401(k)
  - Unlimited PTO
  - Lunch stipends for in-office employees
  - $1,000 equipment stipend
  - Team off-sites (e.g., Honolulu and Las Vegas in 2025)
- **Tech Stack**: Claude Code/CoWork, Kling, Seedance, Cursor, Linear, PaperClip – you’re expected to try new tools.
- **Diversity of roles**: Senior Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, AI Creative Director, Creative Strategist, Performance Marketing roles, and more.

## Sources
1. [valid.co/careers](https://www.valid.co/careers)
2. [valid.co](https://www.valid.co/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/validco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/validco)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/valid/__5aY_jcKNbRFNhmLl20JnBD_jWYcGgXd6LHGzg-sVghc)
5. [valid.co/valid-seed-round](http://valid.co/valid-seed-round)

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