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title: 'AI Product Manager at Sekai'
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# AI Product Manager at Sekai

- **Company:** Sekai
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sekai/534298cc-7123-4062-b2d0-061c41ff319f

## Job description

Sekai is building the TikTok for mini apps — an AI-driven consumer platform where people create, remix, share, and play interactive content instantly. We are a Series A company backed by Khosla, a16z, Mayfield, and A*, with $30M raised to date. We are remote-first across all positions and are looking for ambitious, AI-native builders who want to help shape the next generation of consumer social products.

Here are Sekai’s download links:

- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.sekai.app&hl=en_US
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sekai-create-remix-play/id6504506653

## About the Role

We are looking for an AI-native Product Manager to help build the next generation of consumer interactive experiences. This role is for someone who combines strong consumer product judgment, hands-on AI usage, strong data analytics, and high ownership. You should be able to understand users, break down ambiguous product problems, analyze product data independently, work closely with engineering and design, and ship fast in a startup environment. We are not looking for a traditional PM who only writes specs or coordinates tasks. We are looking for someone who can own product outcomes, use AI to increase their leverage, and turn complex user problems into simple, high-impact product decisions.

## Responsibilities

- Own some key areas of Sekai’s consumer product experience, including creation, discovery, feed experience, sharing, retention, and creator/player engagement
- Turn ambiguous user problems into clear product hypotheses, priorities, requirements, and execution plans
- Analyze user behavior, funnels, retention, engagement, feedback, and product metrics to identify opportunities
- Define success metrics for product launches and experiments
- Work closely with engineering, design, data, growth, and operations to ship quickly
- Use AI tools to accelerate research, product thinking, data analysis, prototyping, documentation, QA, and execution
- Communicate clearly on priorities, blockers, trade-offs, decisions, and next steps

## Qualifications

- 2+ years of product management or closely related product-building experience
- Prior experience building consumer products is required
- Strong product sense and user empathy, especially for mobile, social, creator, gaming, entertainment, or content-driven products
- Strong data analytics skills; comfortable analyzing funnels, retention, engagement, cohorts, experiments, and user behavior
- Comfortable using AI tools to write SQL, explore data, generate analysis, summarize insights, and make data-informed product decisions
- Able to independently investigate a product problem using both qualitative feedback and quantitative data
- Actively uses AI tools in daily work, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw similar tools for your daily work
- Able to break down vague goals into clear product plans, metrics, trade-offs, and execution steps
- Strong ownership and follow-through in a fast-moving environment

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with feed-based products, UGC platforms, gaming, social products, AI creation products, or recommendation systems
- Experience improving activation, retention, engagement, sharing, creation success rate, or creator/player growth loops
- Experience working in an early-stage startup or highly ambiguous product environment
- Experience with analytics tools such as Amplitude, GA4, PostHog, Amplitude, BigQuery, similar tools
- Experience building AI workflows, prototypes, side projects, agents, internal tools, or automations
- Ability to use AI tools to create an AI-native workflow that makes their own product work faster, sharper, and more scalable
- Strong taste in consumer UX and interactive product experiences

## Benefits

- Top tier salary in the market + competitive equity
- Full Health insurance

If you are excited about building at the frontier of AI, consumer social, and interactive entertainment, we would love to hear from you. At Sekai, you will work with an AI-native team, move fast, own meaningful problems, and have the flexibility to explore new ideas from an early stage.

## About Sekai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sekai is an AI-native social platform that lets anyone create, play, and remix interactive mini-apps (called "Sekais") using text prompts, turning software into shareable cultural artifacts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; raised $20M in June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (incorporated as Versa AI, Inc.)
- **Founders**: Lucky Zhang

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered social content / User-generated mini-apps / Generative interactivity
- **Target customers**: B2C – consumers (especially younger demographics) who want to create, discover, and remix playful, utility, or fan-interaction mini-apps; also creators and potential celebrity partners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To move beyond static content (text, image, video) and build the first ecosystem for "Generative Interactivity" – making software a medium for creative expression and social sharing.

## Products & Services
- **[Sekai Platform (app + web)]**: An AI-driven platform (iOS, Android, and web) where users describe an idea in natural language and a mini-app is instantly generated. Apps can be utilities, quizzes, polls, cards, games, or fan experiences. Users can play, remix others' creations, and share them. Includes a creator monetization path (in development). **Type**: AI-powered SaaS / mobile app

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $26M ($20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures in June 2026, plus $6M seed led by Mayfield in 2025). Also received $3M in pre-seed/non-equity assistance in 2024.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Connect Ventures (joint CAA/NEA), a16z Speedrun, Mayfield, A*, MVP Ventures, 359 Capital, Parable VC, 645 Ventures. Early backing from a16z Games Speedrun.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 15 million mini-apps created, with over 200,000 generated daily.
  - Users spend more than 1 hour per day on the app.
  - 550% YoY headcount growth (from ~3 to 16 employees).
  - 4,689 LinkedIn followers (+611.5% yearly).
  - Active hiring: 7 open positions as of July 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI-native social app creation**: Unlike traditional social media, Sekai enables true interactive creation – not just content consumption.
- **Remix culture + low barrier**: Users can create without coding; remixing others' apps lowers friction and drives viral loops.
- **Strong engagement metrics**: >1 hour daily usage signals product-market fit and user “obsession” (per investor Nicole Quinn).
- **Founder track record**: Lucky Zhang previously sold startups to Apple (Yi+ AI) and ByteDance (Blacktail), showing execution and exit experience.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the creator economy**: Sekai plans to help creators earn money from their mini-apps and interactive fan experiences.
- **Expanding partnerships**: Working with CAA on creator and celebrity partnerships.
- **Hiring aggressively** for engineering, product, and AI roles to build out the platform and mobile experience.
- **Broadening beyond anime/fan-fiction** (initial niche) into general-purpose mini-app creation as AI coding models improve.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of creativity and impact**: Sekai describes itself as the “first AI-native social platform” – employees get to build a new medium, moving beyond doomscrolling to active creation and interaction.
- **Early-stage growth**: Very small team (16 people) with massive funding ($26M) and explosive user traction – high ownership and ability to shape product.
- **Founder with serial success**: Working under Lucky Zhang, who has sold two companies to Apple and ByteDance, provides credible leadership and deep AI/social experience.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Likely flexible; job postings on Ashby (e.g., AI Product Engineer) include "Remote" tag. HQ is in Sunnyvale, CA, but team spans US, Indonesia, Singapore, NZ.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Focus on rapid prototyping, AI tools, and user-generated content. Roles posted include "AI Agent Engineer," "Senior Data Engineer," "AI Product Engineer" – strong AI engineering environment.

## Sources
1. [Sekai Official Website](https://sekaiapp.com/)
2. [Sekai LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sekaiapp)
3. [Axios – Sekai raises $20M (June 2026)](https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/sekai-mini-app-startup-funding)
4. [Sekai Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sekai)
5. [Google Play Store – Sekai App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_US&id=chat.sekai.app)

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