Brittney Valdez: Independent Portrait Photographer in San Francisco, CA
Brittney Valdez

Independent Portrait Photographer
San Francisco | United States
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Minted
Independent Portrait Photographer | 07/2017 - Current
Photographed 5 families with 6 more booked through December 2017 as part of Minted’s new Photo Op program. Deliver 200+ photos per 30-minute session to Minted’s Photo Op team for retouching and client delivery.
Brit Valdez Studio
Owner, Photographer Lead & Artist | 07/2015 - Current
Working as a photographer in portraiture, product, commercial, and fine art fields. Manage bookkeeping, sales, marketing, purchasing, styling, and deliverables for all photography projects. Build relationships and consult with clients during pre- and post- production to meet their needs. Worked with clients of all types including Etsy, Minted, Google Capital, Global Glimpse, Fetch, and Gal Collective. Featured artist in the Spark Arts Community Art Show in January 2017.
The Thope Foundation
Photojournalist & Business Development Volunteer | 06/2016 - 06/2017
Built a business plan for the school construction project and drafted a website layout for the school’s future website. Produced a marketing video for the foundation’s fundraising efforts that incorporated interviews of current students, teachers, alumni and the foundation’s director. The video is still being processed and edited. Worked as a photojournalist on-site at the school in Cape Town, documenting life in a typical day in the classroom.
Google, Inc.
Strategic Partner Manager, Global Partnerships | 08/2014 - 06/2017
Manage a ~$52MM book of ~40 desktop/mobile web and app developers across the news and ecommerce verticals. Closed +80% of the team’s competitive cross-sell goal in Q3 and Q4 2015 with 100% pitch rates and met with +10 publishers per quarter, closing ~95% of all deals.
AOL, Inc.
Strategic Account Manager | 02/2012 - 07/2014
Managed and upsold ~$100MM worth of direct response & branded digital campaigns across AOL and Advertising.com,
selling to a book of ~50 national tech, finance, travel and lifestyle advertisers. Trained and mentored 2 new hires as 1 of 2 Senior Account Manager Ambassadors in the western US. Launched the media planning tool for the company on the west coast.