OpenAI

International Strategy & Operations Lead

OpenAI$150K — $180K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years in business operations, strategy, or corporate strategy roles
  • Proven experience handling large, ambiguous business challenges from diagnosis to execution
  • Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis and market insights
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive-level materials
  • Experience across product, growth, finance, and marketing functions
  • Ability to operate across various organizational levels
  • Passionate about technology and artificial intelligence

Responsibilities

  • Build the operating plan, defining goals, workstreams, and decisions
  • Drive market growth initiatives with cross-functional teams
  • Create visibility into market performance using data and insights
  • Lead executive communications and strategic decision-making
  • Connect regional needs to global priorities from customer feedback
  • Drive strategic cross-functional initiatives for market readiness and adoption
  • Build repeatable programs and frameworks for scaling international operations

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with global leadership and cross-functional teams
  • Dynamic work environment prioritizing technological advancements
  • Chance to drive high-impact initiatives in a fast-moving organization
  • Potential to contribute to the international growth of AI products and services
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking for a world-class, scrappy, and dynamic strategy and operations leader who spikes in analytical thinking, business judgment, executive communication, and operational execution.

You will work closely with global leadership, regional general managers, and cross-functional partners to identify growth opportunities, build operating plans, and drive high-priority initiatives from conception through execution. You will be expected to operate at all altitudes-from translating complex market dynamics into clear recommendations for senior executives to working directly with product, growth, data science, and go-to-market teams to unblock execution.

Success in this role requires the ability to bring structure to ambiguity, turn data into actionable insights, influence without authority, and drive meaningful business outcomes across a fast-moving and increasingly global organization.

In this role, you will:
  • Build the operating plan. Translate strategic priorities into clear goals, workstreams, owners, milestones, and decisions. Identify cross-functional dependencies early and ensure teams remain aligned on execution.
  • Drive market growth initiatives. Work with product, growth, marketing, data science, and regional teams to identify and execute opportunities to improve customer acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization.
  • Create visibility into market performance. Develop a clear view of business performance across markets and products. Use data, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to identify the biggest opportunities and risks.
  • Lead executive communications and decision-making. Produce clear, concise business reviews, strategic recommendations, and executive-ready narratives that help senior leaders understand performance, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions.
  • Connect regional needs to global priorities. Synthesize feedback from regional teams and customers into actionable recommendations for product, research, infrastructure, and go-to-market partners.
  • Drive strategic cross-functional initiatives. Lead high-priority projects spanning market readiness, product launches, customer adoption, operational improvements, and new international growth opportunities.
  • Build repeatable programs. Develop the frameworks, planning processes, and operating rhythms that help international teams scale effectively as the business grows.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 10-15 years of experience in business operations, strategy, international growth, corporate strategy, or other highly analytical operating roles.
  • Have a proven track record of taking large, ambiguous business problems from initial diagnosis through strategy, execution, and measurable results.
  • Are highly analytical and comfortable using business performance data, market research, and customer insights to answer complex questions and shape strategic decisions.
  • Are an exceptional written and verbal communicator, with experience producing executive-ready materials and influencing senior leaders.
  • Have experience working across product, growth, finance, data science, marketing, and go-to-market functions.
  • Are comfortable operating at all altitudes-discussing strategy and tradeoffs with executives while working directly with individual contributors to move projects forward.
  • Excel in fast-moving environments and can prioritize across competing demands without losing sight of the highest-impact outcomes.
  • Bring strong business judgment, intellectual curiosity, and a bias toward action.
  • Are passionate about technology, artificial intelligence, and expanding the benefits of AI to users and customers around the world.

Nice to have:
  • Experience at a leading management consulting firm.
  • Experience building or scaling international businesses, market operations, or global growth programs.
  • Hands-on experience with SQL, business intelligence tools, or data visualization platforms.
  • Experience working in AI, enterprise technology, consumer technology, or other fast-growing product-led businesses.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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2015

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