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About the Role

Valence is transforming talent development with an AI coach that provides personalized guidance to leaders and employees. This role will own the brand strategy and activation, content, thought leadership, PR, communications, and key experiences that define how Valence and Nadia are understood, remembered, and chosen by enterprise leaders. You will report to the VP of Marketing and work closely with the CEO and GMs to shape our global brand presence. This is a leadership position on a lean marketing team, with the opportunity to build and manage a team from day one.

Responsibilities

Own brand strategy end to end: positioning, messaging architecture, voice, and visual identity.
Settle with leadership how Valence and Nadia relate as brands.
Build the system for landing the new brand narrative, with guidelines and decision rights.
Earn authority on how work and management are changing by defining key ideas, building a research initiative into a thought leadership program, and earning credibility with partners like Microsoft.
Define and build our executive voice framework.
Lead PR and communications: set strategy, select and manage the agency, shape its scope, and build the muscle to act on inbound moments.
Design Tier 1 experiences that build our brand with senior buyers, from conference presence to executive dinners.
Partner with the Executive Engagement and Customer Advocacy lead to produce case studies and user-level stories across multiple media and formats.
Establish how we track awareness and consideration among target buyers and show brand's influence on pipeline.
Own the brand budget and agency ecosystem.
Balance bets across brand, pipeline-adjacent content, and experiences.
Build and lead the team: help set the standard for and elevate work across all capabilities within the team.
Judge when to add in-house capability vs. freelancers or agencies.
Guide and inspire a creative team to do exceptional work.

Requirements

10+ years in content, brand, or communications, with senior leadership experience at a high-growth software company.
Led a multidisciplinary brand or corporate marketing function and can show the system before and after your leadership: strategy, operating model, team, and results.
Worked directly with a CEO and executive team and can hold your own in a first-principles conversation about why a bet is worth making.
Know the difference between content that is interesting and content that changes how a CHRO or CEO thinks, and can earn the trust of senior buyers without having sold to them before.
Built thought leadership that earned real authority on a topic like the future of work, or have a clear view on how to, including original research, institutional partnerships, and executive voice programs.
Owned or helped shape a communications strategy and managed agencies through it, or have a clear view on how to: selecting them, shaping scope, holding them to outcomes, and knowing when to act without them.
Startup or high-growth company experience: comfortable building a function with limited infrastructure and shifting priorities.
Expert in creating a way forward through ambiguity.
A drive for excellence: take full ownership of outcomes and feel deeply responsible for results.
Roll up your sleeves and fix things, even if it's not 'your job.'
Challenge yourself to extraordinary growth and believe that frequent feedback is the fastest lever for getting better.
Operate with speed and conviction; don't wait for perfect certainty.
Choose a path, test it fast, and let results guide the next move.
Take bold bets: lead with curiosity and not ego.
Care more about strong ideas than being right.
Listen well, challenge directly, and commit fully even when the decision isn't yours.
AI-native: have built AI into your daily workflow and can point to specific things you've automated, accelerated, or improved with it in the last six months.

Skills

Brand strategy
Brand activation
Content strategy
Thought leadership
Public Relations (PR)
Communications
Research
Messaging architecture
Voice and tone development
Visual identity
Executive voice programs
Agency management
Team leadership
Budget management
AI implementation
First-principles thinking
Working with executive teams
Building functions in high-growth environments
Creating a way forward through ambiguity
Operating with speed and conviction
Taking bold bets
AI-native workflow

Location

US
EMEA

Work Type

Full-time
Startup velocity

Experience Level

Senior leadership
10+ years experience

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary including base + bonuses

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
Generous PTO
Company-wide R&R shutdowns
Paid parental leave
Retirement plan support for US and global employees
Equity
Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company at a growth inflection point
Financial upside that comes from scaling fast
Top-up grants as we scale and you deliver exceptional performance

About the Company

Valence has built the talent transformation & intelligence engine powered by Nadia for enterprise, offering personalized, expert, and human-like guidance and support to any leader or employee.
We’re building the future of work now, with innovative Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and technology.
Our focus is on the problems that decide whether AI changes how organizations operate — the ones with no playbook, no obvious answers, and no guarantee of success.
We are looking for individuals who want to be part of the small group that defines how AI transforms the future at a global scale.
We are not looking for people who want predictability or incremental progress.
We only want those who are restless at the edge of what’s possible, who get bored when things feel “done,” and who are driven to redefine what AI can mean for leaders, companies, and the world.
At Valence, the work worth doing is the kind that redefines work itself.

Equal Opportunity

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