Sauna

Sauna

AI assistant for connected work

Creative Director / Story Crafter

Full-Time
$120k - $220k/yr

+ Equity

Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person

Based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting; five days per week in the office.

About the job

Requirements
  • Demonstrated ability to craft stories that move people, with work that traveled and an understanding of why it worked.
  • Real motion-design expertise, including HTML, CSS, or code in addition to tools such as After Effects, C4D, or Blender.
  • Ability to create and direct video, or to cast and direct others while understanding what makes a video work.
  • Experience building with Claude Code or similar tools and AI creative tooling, including creating custom production pipelines.
  • Ability to take an idea from inception through publication independently.
Responsibilities
  • Own and shape the narrative of Sauna in the world by extracting the story from the founder and product, adding a distinct point of view, and communicating it across channels.
  • Identify the human reason audiences should care and express it through visuals that move people.
  • Handle motion and video end to end, including concept development, shooting, motion design, editing, and publishing.
  • Set the visual and editorial direction for Instagram and the company's social presence and maintain its coherence.
  • Build repeatable creative pipelines using Sauna, Claude Code, and AI tooling to produce high-volume creative work efficiently.

About the company

Sauna is an artificial intelligence software company building a connected work assistant. The company links with communication and productivity tools to organize context, create work products, and carry out authorized tasks. It serves individuals and teams managing knowledge work across multiple applications. Its operating model centers on a cloud-based assistant using persistent context, scheduled activity, and user-directed actions. Teams work across AI research, product, software engineering, design, security, growth, and customer support.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Wordware hired a head of product in January 2026 for Sauna GTM.
  • Job posts in July 2026 describe a 20-person team building production agent systems.
  • Twitter Personality revival shows distribution through viral consumer agents and brand reach.

What critics are saying

  • Sauna remains waitlist-only in early 2026, delaying revenue conversion.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft bundle workplace copilots into existing enterprise contracts.
  • If adoption stalls, Wordware's 2024-era audience and $30M seed burn vanish quickly.

What makes Sauna unique

  • Sauna by Wordware combines persistent memory, workplace context, and autonomous task execution.
  • Wordware launched Sauna for teams across Slack, email, iOS, iMessage, and web.
  • The product targets shared organizational knowledge, not single-user prompt tools.

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Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

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