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Our vision is to make an AI-powered ad agency accessible to every marketer. Imagine an AI that combines Don Draper’s creative genius with the sophisticated data-backed approach of a hedge-fund manager. We’re a seed-stage AdTech startup based in Burlingame, CA. Our co-founders, Aman Jain and Vinay Jain, have spent more than a decade building Ad products at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We raised $4.5m from top VCs and angels, including Wing, Patron, Samsung, Balaji, and many more.

Vision & Mission

Our vision is to make an AI-powered ad agency accessible to every marketer. Imagine an AI that combines Don Draper’s creative genius with the sophisticated data-backed approach of a hedge-fund manager. Such expertise is typically limited to the Coca-Colas of the world. By democratizing access to this powerful combination, we’ll help smaller brands stand toe-to-toe with industry titans, and help many more new brands in being created.

About Us

We’re a seed-stage AdTech startup based in Burlingame, CA. Our co-founders, Aman Jain and Vinay Jain, have spent more than a decade building Ad products at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We raised $4.5m from top VCs and angels, including Wing, Patron, Samsung, Balaji, and many more.

We’ve made significant progress on our mission. Our v0 product is already launched in closed beta with hundreds of people on the waitlist and v1 is being developed with design partners. We’re looking to onboard a AI Research Advisor to increase the pace of our progress.

The Opportunity

As our AI Research Advisor, you’ll be part of the founding team, and play a very crucial role in helping us realize our vision of an AI-powered ad agency. You will formulate our AI & Data strategy, train and deploy new models.

Why Join Us?

• Innovation: Be a part of a team that's at the forefront of reshaping the advertising industry through cutting-edge AI.
• Leadership: Wield significant influence over the direction and success of our venture.

Your Role

Requirements

• Hands-on: A minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience developing and debugging AI systems. Experience with Ranking, Computer Vision, Diffusion, or Multi-Modal Msodels is a plus.
• Direction: At least two instances of providing significant direction in solving something truly innovative, substantially impacting the company.

Responsibilities

• Building Models: Spearhead the development of novel AI systems for (1) Ads performance prediction and (2) Ads creative generation. This includes training our own multi-modal (text + image/video) ads performance prediction model (ref), fine-tuning LLMs / Diffusion for on-brand & high-quality creatives (ref), and training a novel transformers based ads layout generation model (ref).
• AI Strategy: Lead the formulation and execution of our AI strategy, including how to collect & annotate data, which areas to invest in, and how to sequence efforts to balance short-term goals with long-term vision.
• Hiring & team-building: Play a key role in assembling and guiding a team of top-tier AI talent.

Nice to Haves

• AdTech Expertise: Past experience in AdTech ML will help shorten the learning curve.
• PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning.