Support recruiting through candidate communications, interview scheduling, process and data administration, vendor coordination, event support, and onboarding-related tasks in Tokyo.
About this role
Sakana AI's Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab is a dedicated research group redesigning the AI development process itself, working directly with CEO David Ha. It is hiring a Research Program Manager to run the Lab's operations so researchers and engineers can focus fully on research.
The manager owns schedule, progress and budget management for the Lab's research projects, understands progress technically and talks directly with researchers to close gaps between plan and reality, handles external communication including contact with outside partners, moves forward the internal processes for hiring and onboarding research staff, and reports project status regularly to the CEO and leadership team.
Applicants should understand AI and machine-learning research well enough to hold technical conversations with researchers; doing research is not required. They need to work in Japanese and English, including negotiation and writing, in an international team, and to have practical experience in budget management, project management or external negotiation. Experience coordinating in complex environments with many stakeholders is a plus. Business-level Japanese and English are both required. The role runs programmes and does not do research itself.
This is an AI-generated summary of the employer's original posting — details can be incomplete, out of date or simply wrong. Always confirm everything on the official posting before applying.
Similar jobs
Lead commercial and corporate legal work for an AI startup, including contract drafting and negotiation, IP, compliance, regulatory guidance, disputes, and legal-team management in Tokyo.
Support Sakana AI’s corporate development team with travel, investor and partner meetings, calendars, contracts, documents and expense administration.
Propose and deliver IT solutions to enterprise IT departments, develop new accounts, build customer relationships, and support procurement, implementation, operations, and AI-assisted proposal processes.
Visit families with children who are not attending school to hear their concerns, explain Gakken's home tutoring support, give a trial lesson and prepare a contract quotation.
Leads customer deployment strategy for a metadata platform, covering data-use planning, architecture, governance, AI foundations, project delivery, risk management, and adoption improvement.