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Developer Marketing Manager

Sakana AI· Marketing
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Hybrid (Global)Full-time, contract (24+ hours/week), or internship (2+ months, 24+ hours/week)Posted 1w ago

About the role

First dedicated Developer Marketing member in Sakana AI's newly formed Marketing Team. Focused on organic-driven developer-facing initiatives, documentation, technical content, community building, events, and feedbackLoop to product. Owns developer launches for API and developer-facing products, collaborating with API Platform, researchers, and developer support.

Responsibilities

  • Own developer awareness and launch momentum for Sakana Fugu, Sakana Namazu and our API: technical blog posts, sample code, integration guides, and the developer sections of product launches
  • Build and grow the developer community: hackathons and developer events in Japan and globally, presence in developer channels and forums, relationships with third-party platforms and tools where our models are available, and user-generated content
  • Improve the first ten minutes of the developer experience: work with product and support on getting-started documentation, onboarding, and the questions developers ask through our support channels, and feed what you learn back to the product roadmap
  • Run the developer side of launches for our API and for developer-facing products, including early access programs and showcase projects
  • Measure what matters, using the team’s attribution infrastructure: signups, active developers, usage through developer tools, event participation and content reach
  • Drive seamless collaboration across global developer communities utilizing both Japanese and English

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in developer relations, developer marketing or technical product marketing for an API, SDK or developer platform
  • Ability to call an API, read and modify sample code, and write technical content that engineers trust; hands-on experience with AI coding agents or LLM APIs in real projects
  • Deep technical understanding of LLMs and generative AI with the ability to engage in peer-level discussions with engineers and AI researchers
  • Experience building a developer community from a small base, in person and online, and comfortable presenting on stage in English or Japanese
  • Ability to autonomously drive initiatives in an unestablished, fast-paced startup environment
  • Native or professional fluency in both Japanese and English
  • Preferred: experience with open-source communities or model hubs; a public footprint (talks, posts, repositories) that developers already recognize

Skills

Required:Developer relationsTechnical content creationAPI/LLM literacyPublic speaking / communication
Nice to have:Community building
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sakana AI

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