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Sakana AI

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own product strategy and operations across Sakana Chat, Marlin, and Fugu portfolio.
  • Act as Head of Product's operating partner turning priorities into shipped plans.
  • Define enterprise delivery with Sales and engineers from scoping to handoff.

Ideal candidate

Autonomous operator-strategist with consulting or BizOps background who loves partnering with product and engineering leaders, structuring ambiguity into plans, and shaping enterprise AI products in bilingual Japan-global teams.

Requirements

  • 3+ years in strategy consulting, business operations, corporate planning, chief of staff, or equivalent
  • Experience on enterprise B2B engagements including scoping and responsibilities with sales and engineering
  • Technical fluency in software architecture, APIs, deployment, infrastructure and security
  • Ability to autonomously drive initiatives and turn open questions into structured analysis and models
  • Track record influencing engineers, sales and executives without direct authority
  • Daily hands-on use of LLM agents with business-level Japanese and English (JLPT N1 guideline)
hiring process
Submit CV and cover letter in English; assignment after passing initial document screening.

Lab profile

About Sakana AI

Tokyo AI lab building nature-inspired generative AI, LLMs and recursive self-improving systems for enterprise use.

What they build

  • Sakana Chat
  • Sakana Marlin
  • Sakana Fugu

Known for

  • Collective intelligence
  • Model orchestration
  • Recursive self-improvement
  • Large language model development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2023
  • Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
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