Sakana AI hires its first enterprise sales lead to push Marlin and Fugu products to big clients
SakanaAILabs · x · 2026-09-29
Sakana AI is recruiting the founding Account Executive (GTM) in Tokyo to bring its proprietary products — Sakana Chat, Marlin, Namazu, and Fugu — to enterprise customers in Japan and globally.
- Requires end-to-end enterprise sales experience covering lead gen, demos, PoC, pricing negotiation, and complex procurement (IT evaluation, legal/security reviews)
- Candidates need deep technical fluency to engage engineers and researchers, plus business-level Japanese and English
- The role emphasizes a product-driven, repeatable and scalable GTM motion
The hire signals the research-driven Japanese AI lab is accelerating commercialization and building its first dedicated sales organization.
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