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the team behind Sakana Chat 🐟, Sakana Marlin 🐬, and Sakana Fugu 🐡 Support product managers hands-on across the product lifecycle, from user support and data analysis to go-to-market execution. Tokyo Internship Japanese (Business) & English （日本語はこちら） At Sakana AI, we are advancing world-class R&D through unique generative AI techniques inspired by nature. Our Product Team is on a mission to leverage our proprietary research to conceptualize and launch AI products that defy traditional boundaries. We are looking for a Business Intern to support this mission alongside our product managers. This is an internship position based in Tokyo, for a minimum of three months at 40 hours per week. This is not a shadowing role; you will own real operational work from your first week and experience firsthand how AI products are built, launched, and grown from Japan to the world. Since we operate as a global team, Business-level Japanese and the ability to read and write English are required. Roles and
Responsibilities PM Support: Support product managers across the product lifecycle, from organizing user feedback and drafting
requirements to assisting feature launch operations. User Support Operations: Help run user support for our products: investigate inquiries, draft replies, maintain FAQs and help documentation, and channel user voices back into the product roadmap. Sales support: Assist enterprise sales activities by preparing presentation materials, taking meeting notes, and handling post-meeting follow-ups for domestic and global clients. Market Research: Conduct market and competitive research on LLM and Generative AI products and distill findings into actionable insights for
the team. Data Analysis: Track key usage and support metrics, and prepare simple dashboards and regular reports. Go-to-Market Support: Support campaign operations, event preparation, and enterprise sales activities such as materials, meeting notes, and follow-ups. Global Collaboration: Collaborate effectively as part of a global team that operates in both Japanese and English.
