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Sakana AI

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Highlights

  • Be the first dedicated Sales Operations hire in Sakana AI's Product Team.
  • Build pipeline, forecast and KPI dashboards powering product-driven GTM scale.
  • Support sales of proprietary AI products like Sakana Chat, Marlin and Fugu.

Ideal candidate

A detail-obsessed and proactive operator who loves clean data, clear processes, and building sales ops from scratch. Thrives partnering with sellers in a fast-paced, bilingual startup scaling a product-led GTM.

Requirements

  • 3+ years in sales operations, sales administration, planning, inside sales, or B2B back-office support (SaaS/tech preferred)
  • Strong data handling skills with spreadsheets and CRM reporting to build and maintain reports and dashboards independently
  • Hands-on CRM/SFA operation and administration including data maintenance, reporting, and basic configuration
  • High standard for data accuracy with ability to design and enforce rules that keep data clean
  • Ability to prioritize multiple stakeholder requests and close tasks on schedule
  • Proactive, comfortable building operating rules and documentation from scratch in a fast-paced startup
  • Business-level Japanese and English for reading, writing and routine communication
hiring process
Submit CV and cover letter in English; complete an 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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