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title: 'Creative Director / Story Crafter at Sauna'
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# Creative Director / Story Crafter at Sauna

- **Company:** Sauna
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sauna.ai/442a9d0f-30a3-4bbf-97d3-6e2c4b770b13

## Job description

## ⚠️ PLEASE READ FIRST

- This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco (Presidio) - we work from the office 5 days a week.
- You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.
- We require US work authorisation, but are open to O-1 or J-1 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.

## ABOUT SAUNA BY WORDWARE

Every tool you use was built as an island, so you became the glue between them. You carry a name from Gmail into the CRM, a time from the CRM into Calendly, a note from Calendly into a doc. AI showed up and mostly became an eleventh window to paste into.

Sauna is a hybrid of AI and software standing on one shared brain. It holds your context and hands you real software built on top of it. You talk to it like a chatbot and use what it builds like an app: software for the path you repeat, AI for the edge that never repeats. Keep it to yourself, or share the brain with your team.

The clearest way to see it is a tool doing what its whole category cannot. An ordinary Calendly shows a stranger your free slots. Your Calendly writes the invite email itself, because it knows how the two of you know each other, and it offers a board member the slot over your gym block, because it knows which of your busy hours bend and for whom.

Wordware is the team behind it, 15 people backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator with a $30M seed, the largest in YC's history. We build from an office in the Presidio, fifty metres from Crissy Field beach, and we work absurdly hard because we can see and feel the outcome every day.

## ABOUT THE ROLE:

We're the first multiplayer AI, and our product is years ahead of how we tell its story. We ship something remarkable most weeks and it barely leaves the building. That's the gap you close.

We're looking for a story crafter. Not a video editor, not a social manager, not a brand cop. Someone who owns the narrative of what Sauna is in the world: pulls it out of the founder's head, adds their own taste, and pushes it out until people feel it. You tell that story beautifully with visuals: motion, film, and the whole creative surface.

What You'll Do:

- The narrative of Sauna, in the world: extract the story from the founder + product, sharpen it with your own POV, make it land everywhere.
- The story, told in visuals: find the human reason anyone should care, then make it move people. The heart of the role.
- Motion + video, end to end: concept, shoot, motion design, edit, publish. Hands-on in the timeline.
- Instagram + our social presence: set the visual/editorial direction and keep it coherent.
- Creative pipelines that output at volume: build repeatable systems (Sauna itself, Claude Code, AI tooling) so we ship a lot, fast. Volume with taste.

Who You Are:

- Crafts stories that move people; can point to work that traveled and say why it worked.
- Real motion-design chops — and in the AI era that now includes HTML/CSS/code, not just After Effects/C4D/Blender.
- Could be the creator, not just the director (Johnny Harris style), or cast + direct one. Either way knows what makes that video work.
- Has built with Claude Code (or similar) + AI creative tooling — wired up their own pipelines, not just prompted once.
- Takes an idea from zero to published without being managed there.

Compensation & Benefits:

Base salary: $120K–$220K + meaningful early-stage equity + health, dental, 401(k), considerable PTO, gym budget, lunch.

## THE PROCESS:

We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks.

1. Application: Submit your resume and answer a few short questions.
2. 15-minute intro call: Quick check to align on location, motivation, and logistics. If it's a go, we move fast from here.
3. Portfolio review & craft interview: Walk us through your work and the decisions behind it.
4. Final conversation: We answer your questions and scope out the work trial.
5. Work trial: Paid, in person, usually a few days to two weeks. You work on a real project with us. See how we work, see if it fits, both sides.

## About Sauna

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sauna is building a multiplayer AI agent that learns how you and your team work, remembers everything that matters, and acts on your behalf across thousands of connected tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (company is described as being built by "ex-YC founders")

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Productivity
- Target customers: B2B, teams and knowledge workers
- Mission or purpose statement: To create an AI agent that works as a teammate—running in the background, learning context across sessions, and getting work done even when users are offline.

## Products & Services
- **[Sauna AI Agent]**: A cloud-based AI agent that connects to over 3,000 tools and apps (Linear, GitHub, Notion, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, HubSpot, Stripe, etc.). It drafts messages, tracks what matters, files tickets, and delivers briefings. It is "multiplayer"—teammates share a Sauna's context and memory, and individual agents can communicate with each other. Available on web app, iOS, iMessage, Slack, and email.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $30M (largest seed round in YC history)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Spark Capital
- **Growth Signals**: Named "Makers of the #1 Product of All Time on Product Hunt"; launched publicly on April 29, 2025; currently 18 employees; shipping to first paying users; described as building "Cursor for knowledge work"

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multiplayer AI**: Unlike single-user AI assistants, Sauna allows entire teams to share context and memory, and individual agents can communicate peer-to-peer.
- **Always-on Cloud Agent**: Runs 24/7 in the cloud, working even when the user is offline—drafting, tracking, filing, and briefing autonomously.
- **Massive Tool Integration**: Connects to over 3,000 tools and apps, with custom MCP connector support.
- **Record Seed Round**: The largest seed round in YC history signals strong investor confidence and ample runway.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include scaling the agent runtime to handle 1000x current load, building out sandbox infrastructure for secure code execution, and expanding the product to serve more team workflows. The company is hiring heavily across engineering, product, and growth roles to accelerate product-market fit.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup (18 people) with a "ship fast" ethos—one-week sprints, weekly demos, and features going from sketch to launch in days. The company uses its own product daily.
- **Work Policy**: Fully in-office, five days a week at the Presidio in San Francisco. Relocation required for non-local candidates.
- **Compensation**: Competitive base salary ($180K–$240K for Senior Full Stack Engineer), meaningful early-stage equity, health/dental, 401(k), considerable PTO, gym budget, and lunch provided.
- **Engineering Culture**: Work directly with the CTO; own infrastructure decisions that determine system reliability at scale; build real-time streaming, task queues, and multi-model LLM routing.
- **Hiring Process**: Simple and fast—exceptional candidates can go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks. Includes a paid in-person work trial (a few days to two weeks).

## Sources
1. [sauna.ai](https://www.sauna.ai/)
2. [builtin.com - Sauna Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/sauna/jobs)
3. [ainative.careers - Product Manager at Sauna](https://ainative.careers/jobs/sauna-product-manager)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Growth @ Sauna](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sauna.ai/56f92234-3ad1-4eaf-8f95-c53fa15af0a0)
5. [builtin.com - Senior Full Stack Engineer (Back-End)](https://builtin.com/job/senior-full-stack-engineer-back-end/9906576)

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