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title: 'Account Manager at Sahara'
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# Account Manager at Sahara

- **Company:** Sahara
- **Location:** Seoul, South Korea
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-11-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sahara/628cd3a4-dc75-4f67-b238-9463a533c3f0

## Job description

## About Us

Sahara AI is a decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes the sovereignty and provenance of AI—ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for all users. Backed by Binance Labs, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Sequoia Capital, Samsung, Matrix Partners, and more, Sahara AI continues to push the boundaries of decentralized AI. Today, Sahara AI is trusted by 35+ global innovators and research institutions, including Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Motherson Group, and Snap. Learn more at [saharalabs.ai](http://saharalabs.ai).

Our Vision To create a future where AI is open, transparent, and accessible to all by democratizing AI resources and ensuring sovereignty of AI assets.

## Our Values

- Impact First, No Excuses
- Think Big, Act Fast, Every Day is Day 1
- Speak Up, Build Better
- Integrity Always, Zero Compromise
- Own It, Raise the Bar
- Resilience Wins the Race

## About the Role

We are looking for an Account Manager to lead Sahara AI’s business growth and ecosystem partnerships in South Korea. You will drive strategic collaborations, enterprise engagement, and market expansion across AI and blockchain. This role will focus on identifying new business opportunities, securing partnerships with AI-driven organizations, and integrating Sahara AI’s decentralized solutions into Korea’s tech ecosystem.

You’ll work closely with the global partnerships and ecosystem teams to align local strategies with Sahara AI’s global vision. The ideal candidate is a connector and strategist—fluent in Korea’s AI and Web3 landscape, skilled in negotiation, and driven to scale Sahara AI’s presence across industry, academia, and government sectors.

## Responsibilities

- Develop and execute strategic business growth plans aligned with Sahara AI’s global roadmap and local opportunities.
- Identify, negotiate, and manage partnerships with AI companies, blockchain organizations, universities, and government bodies.
- Explore collaborations with South Korean startups to integrate them into Sahara AI’s decentralized AI ecosystem.
- Lead go-to-market strategies for new product launches and drive enterprise adoption.
- Secure investment and funding opportunities to support Sahara AI’s initiatives in Korea.
- Collaborate with global ecosystem teams to localize and implement business strategies.
- Represent Sahara AI at industry events, conferences, and partner meetings.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years in business development, partnerships, or venture building (AI, blockchain, or tech preferred).
- Strong network within Korea’s AI, blockchain, and innovation sectors.
- Proven experience in strategic negotiation and relationship management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Fluent in Korean and proficient in English.

## About Sahara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sahara AI builds decentralized AI infrastructure and agentic applications to make AI more accessible, equitable, and trustworthy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, raised $43M total)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Sean (Xiang) Ren (CEO & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure, Blockchain, Agentic AI, Data Services
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 500 enterprises, AI innovators, research labs (Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Motherson, Snap); also B2C through consumer-facing agents (Sorin)
- **Mission**: “Create the core AI infrastructure needed for everyone to contribute to, and share in, the value AI generates” – building an open, equitable, collaborative AI economy.

## Products & Services
- **Sahara Blockchain / Agentic Protocols**: Trust, governance, and transparency layer for agents – verifiable execution, enforceable usage policies, automatic revenue sharing via micropayments. [saharaai.com](https://saharaai.com/)
- **Data Services Platform**: Customizable, secure data pipelines for collection, labeling, enrichment, and validation – global on-demand workforce. [saharaai.com](https://saharaai.com/)
- **Sorin**: Personal agent for global digital markets – fully autonomous trading execution, available as a desktop app. [saharaai.com](https://saharaai.com/)
- **ClawApp**: Easiest way to deploy OpenClaw agents locally – enables autonomous trading. [saharaai.com](https://saharaai.com/)
- **Agentic Solutions**: Enterprise-ready agents for real business problems (serverless, modular deployment). [saharaai.com](https://saharaai.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $43M (Seed $6M led by Polychain Capital, Series A $37M led by YZi Labs, Pantera Capital, and others) [employbl.com](https://www.employbl.com/companies/sahara-labs)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Polychain Capital, YZi Labs, Pantera Capital, Matrix, Alumni Ventures, Motherson, Nomad, Canonical. [employbl.com](https://www.employbl.com/companies/sahara-labs)
- **Growth Signals**: 40 employees (+7.1% YoY), operates in 16 countries, 8,366 LinkedIn followers, active hiring for Account Manager, Social Media Manager & Content Specialist, Community Manager. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/saharalabs-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Decentralized AI + Blockchain**: Unique combination of verifiable execution, usage-based settlement, and automatic revenue sharing – creates a trust layer that competing agent frameworks lack.
- **Full-Stack AI**: From data services to blockchain protocols to consumer-facing agents (Sorin) – integrated ecosystem.
- **High-Profile Customers**: Already serving Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Motherson, Snap – validation of enterprise readiness.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the “Agentic Economy” – autonomous agents that operate continuously across personal and enterprise tasks.
- Expanding Sorin (trading agent) and ClawApp (local agent deployment) to capture retail and institutional users.
- Growing the data services business to feed high-quality, verifiable data into AI models.
- Building developer ecosystem around Sahara Blockchain protocols for third-party agent development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven – “open, equitable, collaborative AI” – with a team of experts from AI and Web3 backgrounds. [saharaai.com/career](https://saharaai.com/career)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Headquarters in Los Angeles, but operates in 16 countries – likely supports remote/hybrid (LinkedIn shows offices in LA and Cayman Islands, but employees distributed globally).
- **Notable Perks**: Work with leading AI and blockchain talent; opportunity to shape foundational infrastructure for the agent economy; exposure to top-tier partners (Microsoft, Amazon, MIT).
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on verifiable execution, secure agent workflows, and high-performance blockchain – strong technical challenges for engineers.

## Sources
1. [saharaai.com](https://saharaai.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/saharalabs-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/saharalabs-ai)
3. [employbl.com/companies/sahara-labs](https://www.employbl.com/companies/sahara-labs)
4. [saharaai.com/blog/saharalabs-ai-is-now-saharaai-com](https://saharaai.com/blog/saharalabs-ai-is-now-saharaai-com)

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