Full-Time

AI Product Manager

Updated on 9/12/2026

Sekai

Sekai

11-50 employees

Generative AI-powered platform for interactive storytelling

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Amplitude
Product Management
BigQuery
SQL
PostHog
Data Analysis
Google Analytics

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Requirements
  • At least 2 years of product management or closely related product-building experience.
  • Prior experience building consumer products.
  • Strong product sense and user empathy, especially for mobile, social, creator, gaming, entertainment, or content-driven products.
  • Strong data analytics skills, including analysis of funnels, retention, engagement, cohorts, experiments, and user behavior.
  • Comfort using artificial intelligence tools to write Structured Query Language, explore data, generate analysis, summarize insights, and make data-informed product decisions.
  • Ability to independently investigate product problems using qualitative feedback and quantitative data.
  • Active daily use of artificial intelligence tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or OpenClaw.
  • Ability 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.
Responsibilities
  • Own key areas of the 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 artificial intelligence tools to accelerate research, product thinking, data analysis, prototyping, documentation, quality assurance, and execution.
  • Communicate clearly about priorities, blockers, trade-offs, decisions, and next steps.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with feed-based products, user-generated content platforms, gaming, social products, artificial intelligence 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, Google Analytics 4, PostHog, or BigQuery.
  • Experience building artificial intelligence workflows, prototypes, side projects, agents, internal tools, or automations.
  • Ability to use artificial intelligence tools to create an artificial-intelligence-native workflow that makes product work faster, sharper, and more scalable.
  • Strong taste in consumer user experience and interactive product experiences.

Sekai is a generative AI-powered social entertainment platform that lets users create, share, and experience interactive anime-style stories. Users design characters, generate AI-driven narratives, and roleplay as different personas, with features like voice cloning and image-to-avatar conversion built into a social sharing experience. The app uses a free-to-use model with minimal ads and may add premium enterprise services such as analytics later. Backed by firms like a16z, Mayfield, and A*, with founders who previously worked on TikTok, its goal is to grow a user-centric community around AI-assisted storytelling.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$20M

Headquarters

Sunnyvale, California

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Sekai raised $26 million in June 2026 from Khosla, Connect, and Mayfield.
  • Users built 15 million mini-apps, with 200,000 new apps created daily.
  • Axios reported hour-plus daily usage and planned creator monetization through fan experiences.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI, Roblox, and ByteDance can copy prompt-to-app workflows within months.
  • User-generated mini-apps create moderation, copyright, and safety liabilities that trigger app-store scrutiny.
  • Sekai still depends on virality; weak retention breaks the consumer platform entirely.

What makes Sekai unique

  • Lucky Zhang and Arthur Cheung bring Apple, ByteDance, and TikTok operating experience.
  • Sekai turns prompts into mini-apps, collapsing creation into seconds for non-coders.
  • CAA-linked creator partnerships differentiate distribution beyond generic AI app builders.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Remote Work Options

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

25%

1 year growth

-6%

2 year growth

-6%
Axios
Jun 1st, 2026
Sekai raises $20M to build AI-powered app creation platform

Sekai has raised $20 million in a Series A round to expand its platform for creating mini applications through text prompts, founder and CEO Lucky Zhang told Axios. Zhang, who previously sold startups to Apple and TikTok parent ByteDance, believes AI-generated software will become the next major consumer application category. The funding will support the growth of Sekai's platform, which enables users to build applications using natural language inputs.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 1st, 2026
Exclusive: Sekai raises $20M for AI app creation

Sekai has raised a $20 million Series A to grow a platform for creating mini apps through text prompts, founder and CEO Lucky Zhang exclusively tells Axios.

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