---
title: "Sarah Sachs"
category: "people"
role: "Eng Lead, AI"
company: "Notion"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmsachs/"
twitter: "https://x.com/sarahmsachs"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Sarah Sachs

## Profile
Eng Lead, AI at [[notion|Notion]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmsachs/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/sarahmsachs)

## Biography
Sarah Sachs is an engineering leader focused on shipping practical, high-leverage AI into real products at scale. Currently leading AI Modeling at [[notion|Notion]], she oversees four core areas of the company’s modeling efforts: Reasoning and Agentic Orchestration, Core Model Engineering, Search and Ranking, and Data Specialists & Evals — driving the next generation of [[notion|Notion]] AI across reasoning, retrieval, and end-to-end drafting and editing.

Before [[notion|Notion]], Sarah was Director of Engineering for AI and Infrastructure at Tome, where she led AI features reaching 18 million users, built end-to-end presentation generation, and owned the OpenAI partnership and model infrastructure. Prior to that she spent three years at Robinhood as Head of NLP & GenAI, setting company-wide generative AI strategy, transitioning a BERT-powered chatbot into a compliant generative assistant, and building NLP content moderation for a regulated fintech environment. Earlier in her career she was a founding ML engineer at Sunshine (formerly Lumi Labs) and a software engineer at Google, where she launched and patented Personal Score in Google Maps, featured at Google I/O 2018.

Sarah holds a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics–Computer Science from Brown University, graduating with a 4.0 CS GPA and the University Distinguished Thesis Award.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-sarah-sachs-notion-s-token-town]] — Notion's Token Town (2026-06-29, 2:50pm-3:10pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-sarah-sachs-notion-s-token-town|Notion's Token Town]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI` — 1 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI`: create, project.
- Evidence links for `youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI`: [[youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI]], [[youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI-slides]], [[youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI-dense-slides]], [[youtube-6YdPI9YbjbI-reconstructed-slides]]