AI agents you can rely on. Backed by Y Combinator and Felicis.
About the role
People who try Sauna stay. Our week-two retention is 74%, which is the number investors care most about and the one we are proud of. Almost nobody knows the product exists. We have done no paid, no SEO, no affiliate, no referral loops, and nothing on lifecycle. Our top of funnel is a founder sending a hundred cold emails a day from his own inbox between product decisions.
What they're looking for
- You have priced or grown a usage-based product and know why LTV to CAC is not enough when inference is your cost of goods
- You have run a UGC creator program or an affiliate program at real volume
- A portfolio of work that traveled, with the numbers attached
- Existing relationships with creators, newsletters, or AI community distribution channels
- Already using Sauna, or something like it, as part of how you work
More about this role
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 authorization , but are open to O-1 or J-1 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.
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...
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