Technical Product Manager, API Platform
Tokyo-based frontier AI R&D company that develops nature-inspired AI research and commercial AI products for enterprises and users.
Funding history
About Sakana AI K.K.
Sakana AI develops frontier AI research inspired by collective intelligence and self-evolution, alongside AI products and applied solutions for enterprises and Japan’s public sector.
Skills
About the Role
You will own platform capabilities, starting with the Sakana API Platform, and shape the developer experience from the first API request through team adoption, commercial integration, and enterprise use. You will identify needs across authentication, organization management, the developer console, usage and billing, security, and governance, and work with engineers, designers, and business teams to define the roadmap and stay accountable for outcomes after launch. Over time you will help identify shared capabilities across products and lead new platform products.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience at a technology company, or equivalent professional experience
- Product management experience in a technical area of an enterprise product or B2B service such as APIs, integrations, or shared platform capabilities
- Technical understanding of how APIs and software services work
- Ability to identify problems through customer interviews and usage data and define priorities and success metrics
- Ability to independently research, document, build alignment, and drive execution in ambiguous situations
- Hands-on use of LLMs and AI tools
- Business-level English
Responsibilities
- Understand the needs of developers, enterprise administrators, and internal teams and set platform priorities and roadmap
- Identify and remove friction from registration, API key creation, the console, usage visibility, and understanding of errors and limits
- Define requirements for organization and project management, access controls, audit logs, and security settings
- Design experiences for usage metering, invoicing, and plan changes, translating pricing and commercial terms into the service
- Work with engineers to define availability, performance, capacity, and incident response needs and prioritize features and reliability improvements
- Write problem definitions, requirements, and success metrics, drive development and releases, and evaluate outcomes using usage data and customer feedback
Hiring Process
Find a role; email careers@sakana.ai with a brief introduction and the role; submit the Google Form with a CV and English cover letter.
