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title: 'Marketing Manager at Valency Systems Inc.'
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# Marketing Manager at Valency Systems Inc.

- **Company:** Valency Systems Inc.
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/a7a7dbdc-e785-4211-a2ba-d872905f4c46

## Job description

## About Valency

Valency Systems is a small, dynamic team of engineers, scientists, and researchers building the global hub for the agentic research era. We're based in Berkeley, California, and we're building something that matters. If you care about open science, advancing research at the speed of thought, and using AI to accelerate discovery, we'd love to talk. Our team is hybrid. We come together in person at least 3 days a week, with the option for 2 days of remote work.

## About the Role

You will be Valency's first dedicated marketing hire, reporting directly to the founders and senior leadership. That means you are not inheriting someone else's playbook — you are building one with us. We will design the marketing flywheel together. You will operate it. In practice, that means owning the full marketing calendar: conferences, podcasts, webinars, and social media. You will keep the Valency brand in front of researchers and institutions while managing the logistics, deadlines, and executive coordination that make it all run. The founders are technical and mission-driven — and busy. Keeping them scheduled, prepped, and on message is as important as anything else you will do. This is a builder role. If you want to execute someone else's strategy, this is not the right job. If you want to shape how a company earns the trust of the global scientific community, it is.

## What You'll Do

- Own Valency's conference calendar end-to-end — prioritization, logistics, booth presence, speaking submissions, demo scheduling, and post-event follow-up — across key scientific communities including computational biology, materials science, chemistry, physics, and AI for research
- Build and run our field marketing presence at research universities and national labs (DOE, NIH, NSF-affiliated institutions), including outreach to research computing groups, department seminar organizers, and faculty champions
- Coordinate executive schedules and brief spokespeople ahead of appearances, customer meetings, and media engagements — then track the follow-through
- Maintain the marketing calendar and communicate priorities across the team; be the person who knows what is due, when, and who owns it
- Build relationships with scientific societies and professional associations that matter to our target audience
- Track and report on field marketing results — meetings created, pipeline influenced, community reach — and feed that back into prioritization
- Work closely with sales to ensure tight handoffs from event leads to active conversations

## Who You Are

- You have managed field marketing or event marketing programs in a technical or scientific environment — you know how to run a conference presence and can do it without hand-holding
- You are comfortable coordinating executives: scheduling, prepping briefs, following up diplomatically when things fall behind, and keeping commitments on track even when the principals are busy
- You build systems. You maintain a calendar, create a post-event playbook, and make each execution faster than the last
- You are as comfortable working independently as you are collaborating with a small, fast team
- Meaningful experience in field marketing, event marketing, or a closely related B2B role — ideally at a technical or science-adjacent company

## Nice to Have

- Experience marketing directly to research universities, national labs, or scientific societies
- Familiarity with the academic publishing or research software ecosystem
- Background in a scientific discipline
- You understand research culture. You do not need a PhD. You need to be able to walk into a room full of computational chemists or staff scientists at a national lab.
- Prior startup experience where the playbook did not yet exist

Show Us Your Work We want to see how you've operated:

- Events or programs you've owned and what they produced
- How you've managed complex logistics or stakeholder coordination
- Anything that shows you can earn the trust of a skeptical technical audience

## Why Join Us

- Meaningful marketing challenges on a product that's growing fast and reaching real users
- A small, high-trust team where your decisions have outsized impact
- A culture that values excellence and invests seriously in the people who drive it

## Compensation, Benefits & Equity

We offer a competitive a benefits, salary and equity package including a 401(k) with matching Work Authorization Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

## About Valency Systems Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valency Systems Inc. builds a people-centered, AI-accelerated research platform that connects frontier LLMs to tens of millions of scientific papers and preprints, enabling grounded Q&A and discovery.
- **Entity Type**: Private, venture-backed (stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, USA (implied by founder affiliations and job postings)
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (the company announced its public launch in mid-2026 via a "Hello World" blog post)
- **Founders**: Josh Bloom (CEO, Co-founder) and Ryan Anderson (COO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered scientific research infrastructure, SaaS/API for research discovery
- **Target customers**: Researchers in academia, national laboratories, government agencies, and industry R&D teams; also applicable to policymakers, investors, and science journalists
- **Mission or purpose**: To create a home for people-centered, AI-accelerated research—keeping AI grounded in the real scientific record, not hallucinations

## Products & Services
- **[Valency Bond](https://valency.io)**: A model context protocol (MCP) service that gives LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) structured access to an embeddings-indexed corpus of tens of millions of research papers and preprints (coverage from 1965 to present, updated within hours of publication). Includes semantic search, citation graph tools, and 37+ MCP tools for targeted queries, reading list generation, and collaboration discovery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Not disclosed, but confirmed as "backed by venture capital"
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named publicly; early users include researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and other national labs, academia, and industry
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring (multiple roles posted), has a public waitlist for Valency Bond, and has received early positive testimonials from senior scientists at LBNL. The platform indexes tens of millions of papers and grows daily.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Grounded in real research**: Valency Bond directly connects LLMs to the actual scientific record, eliminating hallucinations from outdated or fabricated citations.
- **Freshness**: Papers are indexed within hours of publication, not months or years—critical for fast-moving fields.
- **Token-efficient & fast**: Designed for low latency and high throughput, making it practical for LLM agents and interactive use.
- **Partnership with domain experts**: Built in collaboration with researchers at leading national laboratories, ensuring the tool meets real scientific workflows.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding the Valency Bond platform, onboarding more institutional and individual users, and building out the team. The company is focused on enabling AI-accelerated discovery while keeping humans in the loop ("people-centered").
- **Direction for growth**: Likely targeting deeper integrations with LLMs, expanding coverage to more preprint servers and journals, and serving enterprise/government clients who need secure, on-premises versions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: A science-first, AI-forward startup co-founded by a UC Berkeley professor (astronomy/AI) and a former IBM CTO. Emphasis on human-centered design and rigorous grounding in research.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Not explicitly stated, but one job posting is for "AMER" (Americas) time zone and the company is based in Berkeley, suggesting a remote-friendly or hybrid model.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Early-stage environment with direct impact on product direction; opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, scientific infrastructure, and user experience. The team is described as "wonderful and talented" and is actively growing.

## Sources
1. [valency.io](https://valency.io/)
2. [blog.valency.io/posts/hello-world/](https://blog.valency.io/posts/hello-world/)
3. [linkedin.com/posts/ryananderson_...](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryananderson_big-news-ive-co-founded-a-startup-called-activity-7457858498870132736-F6Ce)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency)

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