---
title: 'Chief Yacht Officer at Ditto'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/chief-yacht-officer-ditto-3k7r5qbgnnvv'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-12'
---

# Chief Yacht Officer at Ditto

- **Company:** Ditto
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dittoai/1afc5be7-8be6-4fae-b5e3-b3978b7ca49f

## Job description

Chief Yacht Officer

## About Ditto

Ditto is a revolutionary college dating platform on a mission to redefine how students connect and meet in real life. Having arranged dates for 42,000+ students and counting, we're rapidly expanding to new campuses across the country.

## Role Overview

Ditto is seeking a creative and organized Chief Yacht Officer to lead our upcoming nationwide series of yacht parties. We’re hosting 10 unforgettable yacht events across the U.S., each bringing together 100 Ditto users for exclusive blind date experiences. You’ll be responsible for orchestrating these high-profile college social events from start to finish, ensuring every detail supports an unmatched experience for our users.

## Key Responsibilities

- Plan, coordinate, and execute 10 yacht party events across major U.S. cities
- Oversee participant logistics, including invitations, travel arrangements, and on-site experience
- Design and implement the event flow to facilitate fun and meaningful blind-date connections between Ditto users
- Manage and lead event staff and volunteers for smooth event operations
- Ensure safety, compliance, and optimal user experience at each event
- Collaborate with the marketing and community teams to promote events across campuses and social media

## Requirements

- Prior experience in large-scale event planning or hospitality management preferred
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and creative problem-solver
- Excellent communication, leadership, and time-management skills
- Passion for community building and delivering memorable experiences
- Willingness to travel and work nontraditional hours during events

## Benefits

- Opportunity to lead game-changing events at a fast-growing startup
- Hands-on experience managing premium social experiences for college communities
- Competitive compensation and potential for equity
- Travel to some of the most exciting cities and exclusive venues in the U.S.

Ready to help Ditto users meet IRL in style? Apply now to become our Chief Yacht Officer and set sail for an epic adventure!

## About Ditto

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ditto is an AI-powered matchmaking platform that pairs college students for in-person dates by simulating interactions between AI agents of user profiles.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered Social/Dating Technology
- **Target customers**: B2C — College students (18+) in the United States
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To connect people with the right people through the shortest possible path, using AI agents to simulate interactions and find meaningful matches before users ever meet.

## Products & Services
- **Ditto Matchmaking Platform**: An AI-driven service where users submit their preferences and profile information. Ditto uses frontier LLMs and a multi-agent system (including analysis, matchmaking, and scheduling experts) to simulate conversations between AI agents of user profiles. It then texts users a curated date plan (time, place, and match details) for an in-person coffee date on campus. No swiping or chatting is required.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — **$10.8M** (Seed Round of $9.2M led by Peak XV Partners in February 2026, preceded by a $1.6M Pre-Seed from Gradient in May 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Peak XV Partners (lead, Seed), Gradient (lead, Pre-Seed)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapid headcount growth: 81 employees with a monthly growth rate of +14.6%
  - Strong web traffic growth: monthly visits of ~139,301 with +84.6% monthly traffic growth
  - 70% of users get their first date within 2 days of signing up (as of a recent system upgrade)
  - Expanding from a select group to broader college campuses

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI Matchmaking**: Uses frontier LLMs and a multi-agent system to simulate conversations between AI representations of user profiles, identifying compatibility before users meet — a novel approach compared to traditional swipe-based apps.
- **No Swiping or Chatting**: Eliminates the friction of manual browsing and messaging; users simply submit preferences and receive a curated date plan.
- **Safety-First Design**: Only verified students at the same school can match, and only the matched date sees the user's profile, with dates held at on-campus spots.
- **Rapid Matching**: 70% of users get their first date within 2 days of signing up, indicating strong algorithmic efficiency.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic Social Network**: Ditto is building toward an "Agentic Social Network" where AI agents represent users, interact, learn, and evolve to find compatible connections — expanding beyond dating to collaborators, co-founders, and soulmates.
- **College Market Penetration**: Currently focused exclusively on college students, with plans to scale to cities and potentially nationwide.
- **Continuous Preference Learning**: The system learns from user feedback after each date to refine future matches, creating a compounding data advantage.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-Edge AI Work**: The company is building a multi-agent system using frontier LLMs, agent orchestration, and simulation technology — a compelling environment for engineers interested in applied AI research.
- **High-Growth Trajectory**: With 81 employees and +14.6% monthly headcount growth, the company is scaling rapidly, offering early-stage impact and career growth.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the company has offices in Berkeley, CA (HQ) and Leeds, UK, suggesting a distributed team.
- **Engineering Culture**: The tech stack includes Python, TypeScript, React, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Harness, indicating a modern, full-stack engineering environment.
- **Notable Perks**: Working on a product that directly impacts users' social lives; opportunity to shape the architecture of an agentic social network from an early stage.

## Sources
1. [ditto.ai](https://ditto.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Ditto](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dittoai)
3. [Ditto Manifesto](https://ditto.ai/manifesto)
4. [Ashby Careers - Ditto](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dittoai)

## Other roles at Ditto

- [Head of Community Operations](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-community-operations-ditto-yyvaer6v3wft)
- [Head of Product](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-product-ditto-san-francisco-g5w05nwdky79) — San Francisco, CA
- [Head of Marketing](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-marketing-ditto-san-francisco-4ak4gf7hc8tb) — San Francisco, CA
- [Member of Technical Staff](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-ditto-san-francisco-hqkrh4xpmv4s) — San Francisco, CA