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Your role will be to blend cutting-edge AI tools with narrative craft - helping brands tell stories that stop the scroll, earn attention, and drive action.\nOur goal: build the Pixar of ad creative teams, starting with you.\nAbout Valid\nFounded in July 2023, Valid is a seed-stage company operating at Series A scale, headquartered in San Francisco.\nIn 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.\nWe’re well-capitalized and backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Canaan, Neo, and others.\nThis Role is for you if you are:\nSkilled at crafting high-performing short-form content (UGC, hooks, statics, etc.)\n\nFluent in AI tools like Veo 3, Runway, Pika - or eager to master them\n\nData-driven, comfortable in ad accounts, and obsessed with why an ad creative works\n\nStrong at storytelling - able to build arcs that hook audiences in seconds\n\nExcited by experimenting with new tools and formats\n\nWe believe creativity is amplified by AI, streamlined by data, and perfected by human intuition. 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