Build the future of advertising.
Valid is a full-stack, AI-enabled ad agency. Our agents and marketers work in tandem to manage the entire advertising lifecycle.
WHY NOW
The world’s most important industry is about to change.
Our early clients include Replit, Tolan, HoneyHomes, Rover, and many more. We compete directly with traditional ad agencies. Often the legacy players that are 80+ years old, the ones who made the iconic ads we all grew up watching.
Valid wins the vast majority of competitive bake-offs against traditional ad agencies.
~2% of global GDP is spent on marketing, and 80% of that spend is managed by ad agencies. AI has collapsed the cost and time to create ads. Content is no longer scarce, attention is. Winning won’t come from making more content, it will come from making iconic content that cuts through the noise. This is what we’re building.
Point solutions and SaaS fail in the age of AI. Valid is a full-stack, outcome-driven company. Our goal is for Valid to last 100 years.
TRACTION & MOMENTUM
Seed stage. Series A metrics.
In the last 12 months we have:
We’ve earned the trust of enterprise consumer customers running real budgets at scale. Our investors include Neo, Canaan, Steve Huffman (CEO of Reddit), and Scott Banister (inventor of search ads). We’re just getting started.
OUR TEAM
Three teams. One flywheel.
Headquartered in San Francisco and spread across the world, Valid is a talent-dense team of 40+ engineers, product managers, creatives, media buyers, and animators. We operate as three tightly interwoven teams. Equal parts marketing and engineering.
Engineering
Making the agency endlessly scalable.
Traditional agency operations involve an enormous amount of human labor dedicated to generating data that could be useful, if it was presented at the right time with the right context. Valid engineering builds the AI-native systems that make a single marketer as effective as a 20-30 person agency team.
Our engineers build:
- Internal tooling that gives marketers full visibility into performance, spend, and creative data.
- AI agents that automate and accelerate the advertising lifecycle.
- Data pipelines that surface the right data at the right moment.
- The infrastructure that lets Valid compound learnings over time.
This is Valid Engineering’s charter.
Creative
The Pixar of ad creative.
We live in a short-form video world. Valid’s creative team produces fully AI-generated short-form videos engineered specifically to drive sales. Like Pixar, we’ve built custom tooling to produce AI-generated ads. The future of ad creative is AI-driven production plus concepts with human intuition precisely injected to create ads that make you feel something.
What our Creatives do:
- Produce performance-optimized AI videos at scale.
- Build and maintain AI creative tooling.
- Rapidly iterate on winning concepts with real performance data.
- Combine storytelling with data to create ads that convert and resonate.
This is Valid Creative’s charter.
Media Buying
Buying attention and learning what works.
This is where we deploy and manage client ad spend across platforms like Meta, TikTok, TV, and more. The most symbiotic relationship in advertising is between media buying and creative. Media buying is where we learn what resonates, with whom, and serve our ads to the right person, at the right time, and on the right platform.
What our Media Buyers do:
- Structure and scale campaigns across major platforms.
- Continuously optimize targeting, placements, and budgets.
- Measure performance across the full funnel. Not just conversions, but hook rate, hold rate, and drop-off points.
- Inform the products built by engineering.
This is Media Buying’s charter.
WHAT VALID IS LIKE
Do your best work, next to people who make you say “wow.”
Equal parts tech company and agency
Engineering, media buying, and creative strategists operate in a completely intertwined manner. Engineers sit in on creative reviews, media buyers drive the product roadmap, and creative strategists learn what to make from media buyers. The lines between the disciplines blur constantly.
We move fast and use everything
We move with startup intensity and real urgency. We’re building a company that didn’t exist two years ago, competing against agencies that have been around for 80. Our team runs on Claude Code/CoWork, Kling, Seedance, Cursor, Linear, PaperClip, and more. You’re not just allowed to try new tools, you’re expected to.
You’ll feel like a sponge
When disciplines are this tightly integrated, you end up in one of the fastest learning environments in the world. Engineers develop intuition for what makes an ad work. Media buyers think in systems. Creatives read performance data. People who thrive here become dangerously good at things outside their job title.
BOOKS THAT RESONATE
Unreasonable Hospitality
Great work requires trust, and trust requires going further than the job description. This is the operating manual for that.
Creativity, Inc.
Pixar built a system that made creativity repeatable. We’re doing the same thing for ad creative.
Ogilvy on Advertising
Before performance marketing had a name, Ogilvy was doing it. Creative that moves people and converts. That’s the only kind worth making.
WHY JOIN VALID
Comp, perks, and a seat that matters.
Compensation
- Competitive base salary + equity.
- Excellent healthcare options: medical, dental, and vision.
- 401(k).
Perks
- Unlimited PTO.
- Lunch stipends for in-person employees.
- $1,000 equipment stipend.
- Team events. In 2025 alone we ran off-sites in Honolulu and Las Vegas.
Remote + IRL
- In SF? Work from our office in Union Square. We prefer product and engineering IRL.
- Can’t move to SF? We’re remote friendly. Two-thirds of our team are remote.
- Synchronous hours are PT.
OPEN POSITIONS
Come build with us.
Marketing & Product
DON’T SEE YOUR ROLE?
Tell us what you’re great at.
If you would make us say “wow,” we want to hear from you.